Unit Plan Man

I've narrowed it down to one standard: Speaking listening and viewing for high school; The student will demonstrate understanding and communicate effectivley through listening and speaking. And there's six benchmarks with that standard.


1) We can first understand opinion versus fact

2) The relationship versus verbal and nonverbal in speeches- Obama, Bill, Chris Farley, Dr. King.... cooperative learning groups

3) What does it mean to have interpersonal communication...We can explore that
That's week 1 ( I haven't worked out the details yet)

4)Lets evluate commcercials, songs, and texts Whats their VAIL-P and how do the market it
Vocab Audience Image Langauge and Purpose (VAIL-P)

5) Lets watch a clip from the pursuaders

6) Get a guest speaker. We can critque him or her on what we've learned. Then spend two days coming up with a two minute speeech...Maybe two weeks isn't enough, but that's where I want to go with. I want to spend time using media to learn about verbal, non-verbal, interpersonal and VAIL-P and then having students come up with a speech of their own, or maybe a group presentation or something!!! Or maybe focus on a piece of work that they've picked and use what we've learn to critique it...