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Assignment Sheet
Informative Speech with PowerPoint
During this speech you will inform the audience about a researched topic while using a PowerPoint.
Expectations
Time: At least 3:45-4:30 (5% deduction)
Outline: NO! You will not have an outline. Only the printed copy of your PowerPoint with notes
Other: Outline, Works Cited with 3 sources, Digital PowerPoint, Printed copy of PowerPoint
Research Requirements:
A minimum of three (3) sources are required for this speech. The sources can be electronic sources
from the electronic databases that Wheaton North subscribes to or creditable websites (No blogs,
wiki, etc.). I suggest using Proquest or other scholarly sources. You may use Noodletools or Easybib
to construct a correct and separate bibliography page, but it is your responsibility to double check
the citations!
Instructions:
Select a researchable topic that you feel passionate about! Realize that you aren’t trying to
persuade your audience to feel a certain way about the topic, you are simply educating them
about the topic. To inform the audience, you must use 3 creditable resources and include a works
cited page when you turn in. Additionally, you must create a PowerPoint with at least 5 slides that
help enhance the purpose of your speech. In order to present this PowerPoint either save it to a
flashdrive or email it to Miss Martin the night before your speech day at erin.martin@cusd200.org.
Those are your only 2 options.
PowerPoint:
We will discuss what makes a powerpoint effective in detail during class. However, for this
assignment you must have at least 5 slides. The first slide should be an “Introduction” slide, the
second slide should correlate with your Main Point #1, the third slide should correlate with your
Main Point #2, your fourth slide should correlate with your Main Point #3, and your fifth slide
should be a “Conclusion”. Feel free to have more slides -- but the powerpoint should enhance the
audiences understanding of the topic.
Time Frame
Tue. 3/10
Wed. 3/11
Thur. 3/12
Fri. 3/13
Mon. 3/16
Tue. 3/17
Wed. 3/18
Thur. 3/19
Fri. 3/20
Mon. 3/23
Tue. 3/24
Speech Assignment Sheet; Example; Notes; Brainstorm Topic
Written Communication: PowerPoint Evaluation; PowerPoint Tips
Computer Lab: Research and Works Cited (1st: Falcon Lab; 4th: Lab 118)
Computer Lab: Outline (1st & 4th: Lab 118)
Computer Lab: Work Day
1st: 9:05-10:24 (Falcon Lab) PowerPoint + Peer Review
4th: 10:29-11:13 (Lab 118)
PowerPoint
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4 : 10:23-11: 18 Peer Review
4th: 10:29-11:13 Group #2; 1st 12:56-2:15 Groups #2 & 3
4th: 10:34-11:18 Group #3
4th: 10:20-11:13 Group #4
1st: Group #4; 4th: Group #1
1st: Group #1
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Turn in
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Rubric
Detailed Outline
Printed Copy of PowerPoint
Works Cited
Works Cited Example
“Biography.” Toscaninionline.com. 2002. 28 Feb. 2005 <http://www.toscaninionline.com>.
Chotzinoff, Samuel. Toscanini: An Intimate Portrait. New York: Alfred A. Knoff, 1956.
Conly, John M. “Toscanini Records the Ninth.” The Atlantic Oct. 1952: 41-44.
Frank, Mortimer H. Arturo Toscanini: The NBC Years. Portland, Oregon: Amadeus Press, 2002.
Taubman, Howard. “NBC Symphony.” The Maestro: The Life of Arturo Toscanini. New York: Simon
and Schuster, 1951. 230-242.
Teachout, Terry. “Toscanini Lives.” Commentary July-Aug. 2002. Rpt. in Opposing Viewpoints.
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center. Thomson Gale. Wheaton North Lib., Wheaton, Illinois.
28 Feb. 2005 <http://infotrac.galegroup.com/>.
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Student Example
Miss Martin
Communication Studies, Period 3
21 Feb. 2014
Detailed Outline
Introduction: “It is God who tells me how the music should sound.” This was a quotation by
one of the most influential orchestral conductors of the twentieth century Arturo Toscanini.
Many musical scholars would agree that Toscanini’s musical genius was nothing short of divine.
During the next few minutes, I will inform you on the life and musical career of the legendary
conductor Arturo Toscanini.
Transition to First Point: Although Toscanini is regarded as a great twentieth century musician,
a third of his life was spent in the nineteenth century.
I. Toscanini’s Life
a. Born in Parma, Italy on March 25, 1867.
b. Studies the cello as a boy at the Parma Royal School of Music.
c. According to Toscanini biographer Harvey Sachs,
1. Toscanini makes his conducting debut in Aida
2. Conducts the entire opera from memory.
d. Toscanini’s fame grows as an operatic conductor.
1. Conducts the world premieres of such operas as Pagliacci and La Bohème.
Transition to Second Point: As you may have already discovered, Arturo Toscanini’s life was
music. So we move to the twentieth century highlights of his career.
II. Toscanini’s Musical Career
a. According to the Atlantic Monthly, Toscanini began conducting music of the
symphonic repertory on March 20, 1896 conducting Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.
b. Director of the famed La Scala Opera Company in Milan.
c. In 1908, Toscanini comes to the U.S. for the first time to be the director of New York’s
Metropolitan Opera.
d. In 1929, Toscanini concentrates more on symphonic conducting be becoming the
Principal Conductor of the New York Philharmonic.
e. In 1937, at the age of 70, Toscanini accepts an offer, to conduct the NBC Symphony
Orchestra, created for him by David Sarnoff, head of NBC.
1. The first broadcast was heard on Christmas night in 1937 in studio 8H, which
was an enormous radio studio created for the orchestra. Later the studio was
converted to a television studio. It is the studio where Saturday Night Live has
been broadcast since its inception.
f. First conductor to be on television in 1948.
g. Last performance as a conductor was with the NBCSO on 4/4/54
1. Toscanini had stopped conducting [or actually beating time] because according
to Time Magazine he was overcome with emotion.
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h. Suffers a massive stroke on 1/1/57
i. Dies in his home in Riverdale, New York on 1/17/57 at the age of 89.
Transition into Main Point #3: Blah, blah, blah
III. Main Point #3
a. More information
b. More information
a. Detail
b. Detail
Conclusion: Arturo Toscanini was a man of many firsts in orchestral music. He was the first to
record on records, the first to have an orchestra created for him, and lived long enough to be the
first to conduct the opera Aida on television at age 82, sixty two years after he had conducted it
for the very first time. He was a musical “god.”
Toscanini’s Life
Arturo Toscanini
“It is God who tells me how the music should sound.”
 Parma, Italy on March 25, 1867
 Studies the cello as a boy at the Parma Royal
School of Music
 Makes his conducting debut in Aida
 Conducts the world premieres of such operas as
Pagliacci and La Bohème
Musical Career
A Man of Firsts
 Began conducting music
 First to record on records
of the symphonic
repertory on March 20,
1896 conducting
Beethoven’s Ninth
Symphony
 In 1937, he conduct the
NBC Symphony
Orchestra
 Dies in his home in
Riverdale at the age of 89
 First to have an orchestra created for him
 Lived long enough to be the first to conduct the opera Aida
on television at age 82 (sixty two years after he had
conducted it for the very first time)
Effective Powerpoint Tips:
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Pictures – enhances the audience’s experience!
Trigger Phrases
Don’t have too many bullet points / information on a slide
Catchy heading / Titles