Week 2: Confidence

• Students talk about a topic of their choice and are recorded for them to see their posture and body language
• Go over positive and negative experiences with public speaking
• Body language
• Hand signals
• Tone and volume
• Practice: Giving students a topic to speak on and peers give feedback

Week 3: Thinking on Your Feet

• Warm up: Students will pair up and receive one word. The other student must find a word related to that word, and the cycle continues to improve thinking.
• Practice Speeches with 5 minutes of prep and a 2 minute speech
• Popcorn style outline
• Relating topics to life
• Relating vague/saying topics to another topic

Week 4: Structure

• Learning about Impromptu structure (Hook, Thesis, Roadmap, Body Paragraphs, Conclusion)
• Practicing creating a speech with the whole class
• Individual structured speeches

Week 5: Structure 2

• How to come up with effective hooks
• Creating powerful theses
• Improving roadmapping
• Tying body-paragraphs into the main topic
• Individual speeches

Week 6: Practice

• Warm up: Tongue twisters
• Practice speeches with easy, moderate, and difficult/vague topics

Week 7: Learning about speech topics

• Introduction to all speech topics

Week 8: Learning about debate topics

• Introduction to all debate topics

Week 9: Tournament

• Overview of all topics previously covered
• Each student will be judged on various topics including posture, content, and more.

Week 10: Tournament 2

• Continuation of tournament

Parent Duties:

        – All parents are invited to request half-hour parent-teacher conferences with Minh Weeks 5 and 10 and before Week 1

        – Parents may be requested to set up a meeting if deemed necessary by a teacher

        – Parents may attend classes but may not interact in the class. Microphones must be muted at all times or a guest attendee will be removed from the meeting

        – Parents can join Google Classroom to be notified of assignments

        – Parents are expected to read and if necessary, respond to all teacher emails in a timely manner

        – Parents will expect students to put 1-2 hours of extra time into homework and practice. 90 minutes a week of class time simply is not enough