Standard 7: Listening and Speaking: Skills, Strategies, and Applications

According to the Indiana Department of Education's Academic Standards for English 9

Comprehension

9.7.1 Summarize a speaker’s purpose and point of view and ask questions concerning the speaker’s content, delivery, and attitude toward the subject.

Organization and Delivery of Oral Communication

9.7.2 Choose appropriate techniques for developing the introduction and conclusion in a speech, including the use of literary quotations, anecdotes (stories about a specific event), and references to authoritative sources.
9.7.3 Recognize and use elements of classical speech forms (including the introduction, transitions, body, and conclusion) in formulating rational arguments and applying the art of persuasion and debate.
9.7.4 Use props, visual aids, graphs, and electronic media to enhance the appeal and accuracy of presentations.
9.7.5 Produce concise notes for extemporaneous speeches (speeches delivered without a planned script).
9.7.6 Analyze the occasion and the interests of the audience and choose effective verbal and nonverbal techniques (including voice, gestures, and eye contact) for presentations.

Analysis and Evaluation of Oral and Media Communications

9.7.7 Make judgments about the ideas under discussion and support those judgments with convincing evidence.
9.7.8 Compare and contrast the ways in which media genres (including televised news, news magazines, documentaries, and online information) cover the same event.
9.7.9 Analyze historically significant speeches (such as Abraham Lincoln’s “House Divided” speech or Winston Churchill’s “We Will Never Surrender” speech) to find the rhetorical devices and features that make them memorable.
9.7.10 Assess how language and delivery affect the mood and tone of the oral communication and make an impact on the audience.
9.7.11 Evaluate the clarity, quality, effectiveness, and general coherence of a speaker’s important points, arguments, evidence, organization of ideas, delivery, choice of words, and use of language.
9.7.12 Analyze the types of arguments used by the speaker, including argument by causation, analogy (comparison), authority, emotion, and the use of sweeping generalizations.
9.7.13 Identify the artistic effects of a media presentation and evaluate the techniques used to create them (comparing, for example, Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet with Franco Zefferelli’s film version).

Speaking Applications

9.7.14 Narrative presentations

9.7.15 Expository (informational) presentations

9.7.16 Interview

9.7.17 Oral responses to literature

9.7.18 Persuasive arguments

9.7.19 Descriptive presentations