NCTE+3.2.5

**NCTE Standard 3.2.5**

//"Uses a variety of ways to assist students in creating and critiquing a wide range of print and nonprint texts for multiple purposes and help students understand the relationship between symbols and meaning."//

For the purposes of this standard, I have included an activity which allows students to brainstorm different characteristics of a good speech and a good speaker. As a class, we will generate a rubric that differentiates between a great, good, mediocre, and poor speech. Students then will visit [|AmericanRhetoric.com] and choose a speech to listen to and evaluate based on the class-generated rubric. After the students evaluate the speech, they will write a short reflection piece for homework.