Body Language

To better understand how your body can shape your mindset, take stock of your body language in this simple ten-minute exercise.

Step 1: Check-in with your body:

Without shifting or adjusting your posture, take note of how you are sitting. In the space below, describe the physical position of your body from head to toe. What are your head, neck, and shoulders doing? How is your torso positioned? Where are your legs, knees, ankles, and feet?

Next, check-in with how you feel in this posture. What thoughts pop up when you hold your body this way? How would you describe your presence within the class at this moment?

• What observations did you make about your body language during the audit? Were you expanding or contracting in space?
• How did your body language impact your physical presence within the class?
• What connection did you find between your body language and how you felt?
• Were you posed in the way you typically hold yourself? If not, what was different and why?
• What did you learn about your own body language that may come in handy in the future?

Proverb Speech Assignment

• Assignment: Tell a story from your life that relates to a proverb.  This is an opportunity to share either a serious or humorous story from your life which can serve to instruct others. 
• Details: Two minutes. One note card permitted, up to 25 words. 
• Due: 2/3
• Grade: based on this rubric. The speech must meet the assignment expectations and details, use creative, detailed and appropriate language, and display audience-aware delivery.

Proverb List: Brain Candy


Adapted from teachingpublicspeaking.wordpress.com

Study Notes

For our first test this week, please study the following:

• Rhetoric- definition and origin
• Dialectic- definition and origin
• Ethos, logos, pathos
• Cicero and Quintillian
• Rationalism and Humanism
• Campbell and Whatley

Ethos, Logos, Pathos

Classical Argument

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Ch. 1 Review

1. What historical events gave rise to Athens establishing democracy for its citizens? 
2. Under whose reign did Athens enjoy its greatest glory, and why? 
3. Who was Plato, and what form of inquiry did he advocate? 
4. Who was Aristotle, and what is he most noted for? 
5. Why was Cicero considered to be the greatest Roman orator? 
6. What did Quintilian contribute to the art of persuasion? 
7. What role did rhetoric play in education in the Middle Ages?
8. The Renaissance gave birth to the Humanists and Rationalists. Can you describe the differences between the two and name two representatives from each and their contributions to persuasion?

Welcome!

Hi, folks. Please let me welcome you to ENG 132: Speech. I hope you'll learn a lot this semester and leave feeling prepared and confident in having your voice heard in a variety of settings and situations.

Let's start by having you pick a partner, interview them, and introduce them to the class. Here is the pertinent information you should gather, but feel free to add additional information which might inform:

• Name; title, if applicable
• Hometown
• Class level (freshman, etc.)
• What they are planning to study
• A hobby, sport or interest
• A surprise to delight the audience, something that is not commonly known, and something revealing the personality or humanity of the person.

Please click here for the course syllabus and make sure to read Chapter 1 in our text for next time.