Date: Class 1: Monday, January 20th
Course: SPCM 103-Speech Communications
1-1:55 2-2:55 3-3:55 Class Information
Today’s Special Words:
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Desensitize
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Syllabus
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Ice Breaker
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Speech-of-the-Week Journal
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Interview/ Introduction
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Sign-in sheet
In-Class Activities:
1.
Students were introduced to the course Syllabus and materials requirements for course.
2.
Students were introduced to special words and encouraged to take Class notes for mid-term and final exams.
3.
Students participated in Ice-
Breaker activity by completing and turning in Bingo sheet.
4.
Students watched Robert
Kennedy’s famous speech at the time of Martin Luther King’s assassination and were taught how to complete the Speech-a-Week form.
5.
Students signed Videotaping approval form.
6.
Students were taught how to interview each other and were later video-taped introducing each other.
Introduction to Speech
Communications:
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Syllabus
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Attendance requirements and grades
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Key-boarding Requirement
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Available tutoring: Student Support
Services: (455-6027)
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Materials for class:
Textbook: Speak with Confidence,
10 th Edition, Albert J. Vasile
5X7 Index cards
Pen and spiral note book for taking notes.
3-ring binder (This is especially important for collecting class hand-outs to use during mid-term and final exams.)
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Explanation of Sign-in Sheet
My Hopes for this Class: In-class discussion of where we are heading in this course.
Ice-breaker: In-class activity to get to know each other better.
Speech-of-the-Week Journal: This part of class we will practice using the
Speech-of-the-Week form by viewing
Robert F. Kennedy’s speech in response to Martin Luther King’s assassination and evaluating it using the form. This in-class exercise will be turned in by the end of today’s class.
As the semester continues, students will:
 View a speech of they choose
each week and evaluate it by completing a Speech-a-Week
Form.
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Each week’s completed form will be handed in by the beginning of the next class.
Once the instructor returns the graded form, students need to collect them in a designated section of their 3 ring binder to form a Speech-of-the-Week
Journal.
Introduction to Interview Speech
(Introduction of a Classmate): Inclass discussion of how to interview and organize an introduction of a fellow classmate:
1. Gathering facts: Interviewing your classmate.
2. How to Introduce Classmates in
Speech Class
3. What Makes Introductions
Interesting.
In-class Video-taping of
Introductions: Students will be asked to sign Videotaping release and then be taped while introducing their classmate using notes and written paragraphs.
Written Assignments:
1. Your first Speech-of-the Week
Journal Page will be due next week.
2. After you introduce your classmate, the Gathering Facts worksheet and your interview and introduction notes will be turned in. (Everything may be in your own handwriting and on notebook paper.)
Reading Assignments:
For next week
Chapters 1 & 2
Pages 1 -51