Listen up! Speak up!
Teacher Jan Foote
| YEAR
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LEVEL
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DURATION
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| 9-10
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4
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3-4 weeks
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| Achievement Objective Being Assessed
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Learning Outcomes
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| Interpersonal Speaking
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Talk coherently in a formal speech to classmates to communicate information, ideas and opinions, organising material effectively.
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| Processes
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| Exploring Language
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Identify and discuss language features and their effects in a written copy of a prepared speech.
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| Thinking Critically
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Discuss, interpret and analyse speeches, identifying some attitudes and beliefs.
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Processing Information (Oral Language)
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Select, assemble and interpret information using appropriate technology.
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| Supporting Achievement Objective
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Learning Outcomes
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| Transactional Writing
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Express and explain a point of view in a formal speech, organising and linking ideas logically and making language choices appropriate to an audience of classmates.
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| NCEA Link
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| Assessment:
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Formative
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| Achievement Standard:
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AS90058 (English 1.7): Deliver a speech in a formal situation.
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Teacher background reading
Teaching and learning activities
Select and adapt these learning activities to best meet the needs of your students, and to fit the time available:
Learning task 1
Learning task 2
Learning task 3
Assessment
Self, Peer and Teacher.
Resources
Electronic
Follow up
It became apparent that the pupils wanted to find more information both for their speeches and about Martin Luther King. However, their information skills were pretty limited and more work needs to be done in this area. Because there is so much information on Martin Luther King on the web, this lends itself to a comparative trash or treasure exercise where different websites are compared for their usefulness.