Mic Check!
Speech a palooza
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Deadline Drama
Backstage Rules
100

This required course lasts exactly this long.

What is one semester?

100

The very first item on the speaking-project list asks students to perform these social icebreakers.

What are introductions?

100

Being prepared, joining discussion, and behaving professionally combine for this percentage of the grade.

What is 10%?

100

Unless told otherwise, unfinished daily work is due at this time.

What is the next class meeting?

100

Unless otherwise directed, writing assignments must be typed into this teacher-provided document.

What is a Google Doc?

200

The course is divided into 14 chapters, which are grouped into this many larger units.

What are three units?

200

Two people, one conversation, and hopefully no painfully awkward silence: this is one listed speaking project.

What is an interview?

200

Various assignments completed in class or for homework make up this percentage under Daily Work.

What is 20%?

200

Late work does not earn a standing ovation; it receives this percentage of the points earned.

What is 80%?

200

Typed work generally follows this formatting style—because even speeches need properly dressed paperwork.

What is MLA style?

300

Before you charm the crowd, you must study who they are. The syllabus calls this process by this name.

What is audience analysis?

300

Your goal is to teach the audience something rather than change its mind. You are delivering this type of speech.

What is an informative speech?

300

A check for understanding follows each chapter and occupies this percentage of the grade.

What are quizzes at 10%?

300

Once this point arrives, the late-work window closes for good.

What is the end of the unit?

300

Plagiarism or unauthorized generative AI use earns this grade, with no makeup performance.

What is a zero?

400

You become the classroom’s favorite cooking-show host and teach everyone how to complete a process. You are giving this kind of speech.

What is a demonstration speech?

400

A speech that shares a Bible-centered message or spiritual reflection falls into this syllabus category.

What is a devotional speech?

400

This category is the undisputed headliner at 50% of the course grade.

What is Performance and Writing?

400

A student misses three days when an assignment is due. Under the syllabus formula, the student receives this many days to complete it.

What are four days?

400

The third classroom strike ends with this consequence and the loss of participation points.

What is detention?

500

You dramatically present a speech originally written or delivered by someone else. Welcome to this speaking project.

What is a declamation?

500

You want your classmates to agree, act, vote, buy, stop, or start. This is your speech type.

What is a persuasive speech?

500

At the end of every chapter, students complete one of these three types of tasks.

What is a speaking, listening, or writing task?

500

Corrections can raise an assignment score to no more than this percentage before the unit ends.

What is 80%?

500

The syllabus calls this signed acknowledgment page the easiest assignment of the year and requires it by this deadline.

What is the first Monday of the term?