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Lesson Plan

 

 

Teacher:                                         Course:

School:                                           Dates:

 

 

Objectives:

 

      Students will be able to:

*      Analyze current events.

*      Write and deliver extemporaneous speeches.

*      Evaluate extemporaneous speeches.

*      Create extemporaneous files.

 

Introduction/Focusing Questions:

 

*      What were the major news stories for the week?

*      Why is the story important?

*      What is news?

 

Activities for the Week:

 

      Students will:

*      Monday           Discuss ETA, research current events and prepare speech.

*      Tuesday           Speech and peer evaluation.

*      Wednesday      Discuss ETA, research current events and prepare speech.

*      Thursday          Speeches and peer evaluation.

*      Friday              Quiz and develop files.

 

Closure:

 

      Students will:

*      Watch other student presentations and provide constructive comments.

*      Predict probable outcomes to current events.

 

Assessment/Evaluation:

 

*      Check for Understanding:  Quiz, student questioning, and student presentations.

*      Guided Practice:  For guided practice the students will search the internet for news articles to file and prepare an    

          extemporaneous speech.

*      Rubrics:  Speeches evaluation, quiz essay and files evaluation located at http://www.extemptopicanalysis.com/instruction.asp

*      Homework:  Practice extemporaneous speech, read news articles and review for quiz.

*      Grades:  File, speech and quiz.

 

Technology Integration:

 

     Students will:  Use search engines to locate newspaper articles.

 

Resources/Materials:

 

*      Extemp Topic Analysis located at www.extemptopicanalysis.com/archives.asp

*      Extemp Topics

*      Computer/Internet

*      Extemp Files

 


Required Curriculum:

 

      Cut and paste from the course you teach.  Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)

 

Additional Introduction Material:

 

                For most folks, no news is good news; for the press, good news is not news.

                Gloria Borger

                People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

   J. Liebling (1904 - 1963)

                When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often.

                But if a man bites a dog, that is news.

                John B. Bogart (1848 - 1921)

                A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.

    Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754)

                I have not seen a newspaper in over a month, and feel much the better for it.

    Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)

 

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