The Good Ole Days ?. . .
The Good Ole Days . . . ?
(Sadly?)
The graduation project mandated since 2010 is no longer required in N. C. public schools. In a cost-saving measure, the state said for 2019 that each local board of education can decide about keeping the program in place. Henderson County decided to eliminate it. Some other counties are still all in for that significant speech.
The graduation project speech was graded a bit differently in each of the Henderson County High Schools. The evaluation form pictured here from West High was identical to East High except that East has 25 points for content and organization and just 15 for communication skill. HHS had no separate category for project description and divides the extra 20 points between the content and organization. North used a rubric for exemplary, satisfactory, developing, resubmission, and not submitted, with descriptors for each component
All N.C. schools were to have the body of the speech with a near equal weight for research, the physical project, and what was the stretch involved. There is to be a real link between the paper and the project and some application for the future.
The outline below is a good model for all standard speeches. It's from Charlotte-Mecklenburg's site,
a county that still requires aspects of research but backed go off the graduation project in December of 2019.
Outline for Organizing a Speech (Place your topic here.)
I. Introduction (in less than a minute)
A. Get attention of audience (anecdote, startling statistic or fact, rhetorical questions)
B. Needed background information
C. Sense of purpose (thesis) (and a preview of your points)
II. Body (Synthesis of points from your research and work on your product) Transitional words, phrases, and/or sentences should be used to link ideas effectively. (Each point will take 2-3 minutes.)
A. Point #1 (Include data, facts, and examples from research starting.) This is divided into (two or) three distinct parts: the __________________ , the _________________ , and the ____________________________ .
According to my primary source, (as Dr. Edward Green. . .)
The second part is __________________________
Finally, researchers say ____________________
transition
B. Point #2 For my product, I created ______________________________ or I assisted ____________________
This is shown ____________________________ (using Power Point or other visuals)
(This physical product portion could also have two or three parts.)
transition
C. Point #3 The real stretch for me was _____________________________
(Make sure by this point that the strongest link has been made between the paper and the product.)
(This point could have three parts that includes an application to the future.)
III Conclusion (in less than a minute)
A. Restate thesis
B. Review your main points in your speech
C. End with an appeal (a clincher for impact)