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Standard 9:  Oral and Visual

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A.   Use effective listening strategies, summarize major ideas and       draw logical inferences from presentations and visual media.

1.   Demonstrate active listening strategies (e.g., asking focused       questions, responding to cues, making visual contact).

 

B.   Explain a speaker’s point of view and use of persuasive       techniques in presentations and visual media.

2.   Draw logical inferences from presentations and visual media.

4.   Identify and explain the persuasive techniques (e.g.,   bandwagon, testimonial, glittering generalities, emotional word             repetition and bait and switch) used in presentations and media       messages.

10.  Deliver persuasive presentations that:

·         Establish a clear position

·         Include relevant evidence to support a position and to address counter-arguments

·         Consistently use common organizational structures as appropriate (e.g., cause-effect, compare-contrast)

 

C.   Vary language choice and use effective presentation   techniques, including voice modulation and enunciation.

5.   Demonstrate an understanding of the rules of the English       language and select language appropriate to purpose and       audience.

6.   Adjust volume, phrasing, enunciation, voice modulation and       inflection to stress important ideas and impact audience       response.

7.   Vary language choices as appropriate to the context of the       speech.

 

D.   Select an organizational structure appropriate to the topic,       audience, setting and purpose.

3.   Interpret the speaker’s purpose in presentations and visual       media (e.g., to inform, to entertain, to persuade).

 

E.   Present ideas in a logical sequence and use effective       introductions and conclusions that guide and inform a listener’s       understanding of key ideas.

9.   Deliver formal and informal descriptive presentations that       convey relevant information and descriptive details.

 

F.   Give presentations using a variety of delivery methods, visual       materials and technology.

8.   Deliver informational presentations (e.g., expository, research)       that:

·         Demonstrate an understanding of the topic and present events or ideas in a logical sequence

·         Support the main idea or thesis with well-chosen and relevant facts, details, examples, quotations, statistics, stories and anecdotes

·         Include and effective introduction and conclusion and use a consistent organizational structure (e.g., cause-effect, compare-contrast, problem-solution)

·         Use appropriate visual materials (e.g., diagrams, charts, illustrations) and available technology)

·         Draw from multiple sources and identify sources used

 

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