Advocacy Intro
Public speaking is
Empowering
Public speaking is a __________ act of communication.
Transformative
A meaningful element of what empowering public speakers do is....
Becoming reflexive about how their participation creates humane or dehumanizing social works.
______ is the foundation for our communication.
Reflexivity
Your _____ matters.
Communication
Why did Colin Kaepernick choose to sit during the national anthem?
To call attention to police violence against people of color and to protest a government that failed to protect all citizens equally under the law.
Kaepernick’s quote “but I am hopeful. I am _____.”
inspired
What is one benefit of practicing reflexivity?
(1.) Help model and examine without listeners how communication is constitutive of culture.
- OR -
(2) May help listeners better understand their participation in social systems of power, privilege, and oppression
(p. 238)
What we learn in the classroom is already ______.
meaningful interaction in the world.
Kaepernick’s choice to take a knew drew attention to what?
Role of police violence against people and communities of color.
Taking a knee during the national anthem was referred to on social media as #______?
#takeaknee
Where does Public Speaking constitute our daily lives?
Classrooms, courtrooms, boardrooms, and branches of government.
Connotative definition of privilege involve?
Access, opportunity, and advantage
______ is the sense of hopelessness from which it is very difficult to emerge.
Nihilism
Kaepernick’s actions of taking a knee created a space for _____ and ______.
dialogue and dissent with respect for free speech in America.
What are the authors’ educational goals regarding the relationship between public speaking and power?
Agreeing that actions can have the influence to shape national conversations.
Or
Communication is constitutive.
As speakers attempt to change the world they must do so by?
Keeping their listeners in mind.
What are some privileges a white person might experience?
Can go shopping without being harassed.
- Or -
Can worry about racism without seeming self-interested or self-seeking.
(More answers on p. 238-239)
_____ are, at their most basic, relationships.
Alliances
Speech is not free from ______.
consequence
Communication is as ________ as air; we breathe it in and it fills us, changes us.
ubiquitous
Public speaking allows us to engage in what kind of transformation?
Personal transformation
Reflexivity is a process that ______.
Challenges us to consider how we shape ourselves and others in ways that are both humanizing and harmful.
What is critical literacy?
Refers to reading texts for their foundational values and assumptions.
In moments of struggle, we learn _____.
Resilience