1. What is the attention getter of the speech? Was it effective? Why or why not?
2. What was the full thesis statement of the speech? Did the speaker do a good job making this clear within the first minute of the speech?
3. What were the main points of the speech in order? Were these easy to pick out? Why or why not?
4. What kind of transitions did the speaker use? Were they effective??
5. How did the speaker provide closure in his/her speech? Was the ending effective? Why or why not?
6. Describe some information that your speaker introduced from an outside source. Did the speaker provide enough details so you knew you could trust their source materials?
7. What, if any, new information did you discover by listening to this speech? List at least three things that were mentioned that you found memorable.
8. Describe your interpretation of the overall delivery of the speech. What were the speaker's strong and weak points and why? (Don't focus on the technical aspects of this video such as video-audio being out of sync.)
9. Did they use presentation aids? If so were they effective or not? What improvement could they have made to their presentation aids?
10. What do you believe should be the overall grade for that speech (number/letter grade)? Please explain your answer. If you deducted points, explain why you deducted those points.

Go to http://www.youtube.com (Links to an external site.) and enter the search term "student how to speech" or "how to speech example" and make sure it is a student giving it. Find TWO speeches that you'd like to watch from the available thousands. Answer the questions above.

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Speech 1 How to Bake Perfect Cookies Attention Getter The speaker begins with a personal anecdote about a failed attempt at baking cookies immediately engaging the audiences attention by relating to a ... View the full answer