Communications & media
Active Listening and Scoring a Speech with a Rubric
Students practice active listening on an original speech excerpt, then score two excerpts with a rubric and write kind, specific feedback.
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Better Interview Questions: Open, Closed and Leading
Students sort sample questions into open, closed and leading types, rewrite weak questions, write follow-ups, and plan an interview with an invented bus driver.
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Building a Speech: Hook, Preview, Body and Close
Students put a scrambled speech back in order, label its parts, and write their own hook, thesis and conclusion on paper.
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Can You Trust This Source? Rating Five Sources
Students rate five invented sources about one school claim, match key source-evaluation terms, and plan how to verify a rumor.
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Claim, Evidence, Reasoning and Rebuttal
Students learn claim, evidence, reasoning and rebuttal on a lunch-period topic, spot four common fallacies, and write their own rebuttal and an argument for the other side.
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Delivery Matters: Voice, Pace, Eye Contact and Gestures
Students read observer notes on two delivery styles, match delivery problems to fixes, and mark up a short script with pauses and emphasis.
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Fact or Opinion? News Brief vs. Editorial
Students compare a neutral news brief with an editorial, sort statements into fact and opinion, and rewrite opinion as checkable fact.
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Impromptu Planning and Calming Speaking Nerves
Students learn two quick frameworks for impromptu speaking, plan timed outlines for everyday prompts, and match general nerve-calming strategies to their effects.
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Inform or Persuade? Sorting Speech Excerpts and Appeals
Students sort original speech excerpts into informative and persuasive, match three persuasion appeals, and write a thesis for each purpose.
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News Values and the Upside-Down Pyramid
Students match news situations to the six news values, sort facts into the inverted pyramid, and write a short news story in pyramid order.
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Press Ethics and Plagiarism: Six Case Studies
Students read short ethics cases about plagiarism, gifts, photo editing, privacy and corrections, then write a correction notice and a staff rule.
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The 5 Ws and H: From Fact Sheet to Lead
Students pull the 5 Ws and H from an invented fact sheet, compare sample leads, and write their own lead sentence.