Familia Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 This summer, instead of our annual IEW Speech Boot Camp with dear friends, I am hosting an elocution workshop. Since DS graduates this spring, he is saved the speech writing part (which he always took very seriously and spent lots of time on) and makes it more fun for DD, DS, and their friends...no writing! I am imagining scenes from the Little House books where students delivered famous speeches, poems, or histories in class or recitations. Can you recommend good online sources, videos we could buy, or books I could teach from that cover information on pronunciation and the oral part of the delivery -- making their ideas more clear and eloquent? My plan is to have them arrive with short pieces ready to practice their newly learned skills on. Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalmia Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 Royal Fireworks Press booklets on famous speeches. http://www.rfwp.com/series/self-evident-truths-series-statements-of-equality#book-free-at-last-the-language-of-dr-kings-dream Farnsworth's Classical English Rhetoric (uses excerpts from famous speeches to demonstrate tropes and schemes and a variety of rhetorical forms. More for you to draw from than for the students to use.) http://www.amazon.com/Farnsworths-Classical-English-Rhetoric-Farnsworth/dp/1567923852/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1430226584&sr=1-1&keywords=Classical+ENglish+rhetoric Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElizabethB Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 Parkers 3rd, 4th, and 5th readers have elocution training ideas and exercises near the beginning of each reader. They are linked at the end of my Webster's Way page. http://www.thephonicspage.org/On%20Reading/webstersway.html 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fairfarmhand Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 Have you looked at the Toastmaster's Website? They have very good materials about breathing, projection, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Familia Posted April 28, 2015 Author Share Posted April 28, 2015 Royal Fireworks Press booklets on famous speeches. http://www.rfwp.com/series/self-evident-truths-series-statements-of-equality#book-free-at-last-the-language-of-dr-kings-dream This looks excellent for me to study so I can be prepared with my own selection for the camp... an excerpt from the ad for the book about the Gettysburg Address: "introduces the reader to accomplished poet Abraham Lincoln and his use of detail, word sound by controlled vowels and consonants, impact of a spondee, strategic grammar, diction and vocabulary." Parkers 3rd, 4th, and 5th readers have elocution training ideas and exercises near the beginning of each reader. They are linked at the end of my Webster's Way page. http://www.thephonicspage.org/On%20Reading/webstersway.html Thank you so much for linking. I will definitely read/teach from that. The old-fashioned angle this group will love/find amusing! Have you looked at the Toastmaster's Website? They have very good materials about breathing, projection, etc. Off to check that out -- thank you! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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