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SPOKEN PERSUASIVE – PUBLIC SPEECH
The novel I chose was “looking for albrandi”
Task
You have been invited to participate in a national speaking competition entitled, ‘Youth Speak: Voices of Australia’. This competition is being financed by the BBC and the winner from each state will star in a documentary of the same name. The creators want to explore the nature of teenage literature in Australia and the extent to which teens can ‘engage’ with the literary world that is presented to them. Other countries around the world are involved in similar competitions (e.g. ‘Youth Speak: Voices of Asia’)
Using your chosen novel, write and present a persuasive speech that addresses one of the topics on the following page. Your speech must gain its focus and most of its material from the text you have studied.

Purpose
To persuade the audience to accept your viewpoint using evidence from the novel;
To provoke thought by inviting your audience to take up a position on characters and their relationships;
To influence young adults to read Australian texts;
To entertain.

Genre
Persuasive Speech suitable for presentation to a public audience (ages 13+).
The speech will include elements of 1st, 2nd and 3rd person writing (I/You/He, She, They).
(Remember that 3rd person carries more objective authority, but you will also need to engage your audience using some 1st and 2nd person).

Role
You are a Senior English student who has a passion for literature.

Audience
Your teacher and fellow students; BBC producers; wider listening and viewing community who will have access to your speech via documentary if you win.

I chose topic 1 here it is this what you have to write about below
To what low extent or high extent is looking for albrandi a book every Australian teenager should read?
In your answer, you could consider aspects such as:
• Characterisation / Representations
• Relationships
• Themes / Issues
• Plot (development of story – orientation, complications, climax, resolution)
• Morals / Lessons to be learned
• Awareness of national issues (e.g. multiculturalism, Australian heritage)
• Relevance to the youth of today

Please Note:
it is vital that you provide detailed evidence from the novel to support your opinions. Include page references for any quotations used (in brackets after the quote).
You will need to include a bibliography citing your text (Looking for Alibrandi/A Fortunate Life) and any other major source material.

EMBED your quotes into the flow of your argument.
Avoid saying ‘The novel quotes’ – it doesn’t! You are quoting what a character/the narrator said. Just state it and explain how it supports your arguments.

Criteria A B
1. Understanding and Responding to Contexts • exploitation of a range of genre patterns and conventions to achieve the specific purposes of the spoken persuasive.
• discerning selection, organisation and synthesis of relevant and substantive subject matter from prescribed and chosen texts to support opinions and perspectives.
• manipulation and control of roles of the speaker/signer and relationships with audiences. • effective control of a range of genre patterns and conventions to achieve the specific purposes of the spoken persuasive
• effective selection, organisation and synthesis of relevant subject matter from prescribed and chosen texts to support opinions and perspectives
• Establishment and control of roles of the speaker/signer and relationships with audiences.
2. Understanding and Controlling Textual Features • a discerning combination of a range of grammatically accurate language structures for specific effects.
• discerning use of mode-appropriate cohesive devices to develop and emphasise ideas and connect parts of the persuasive speech
• discerning use of a wide range of apt vocabulary for specific purposes.
• discerning use of mode-appropriate features to achieve specific effects:
o spoken/signed features (pronunciation, phrasing and pausing, audibility and clarity, volume, pace); and
o non-verbal features (facial expression, gesture, proximity, stance, movement) that enhance meaning • control of a range of grammatically accurate language structures to achieve effects.
• effective use of mode-appropriate cohesive devices to develop and maintain ideas and connect parts of the persuasive speech
• effective use of a range of apt vocabulary for specific purposes
• effective use of mode-appropriate features to achieve effects:
o spoken/signed features (pronunciation, phrasing and pausing, audibility and clarity, volume, pace); and
o non-verbal features (facial expression, gesture, proximity, stance, movement) that enhance meaning
3. Making and Evaluating Meaning • discerning manipulation of the ways ideas, attitudes and values underpin texts and influence audiences
• subtle and complex creation of perspectives and representations of concepts, identities, times and places in the assigned topic
• discerning use of aesthetic features to achieve the specific purpose of persuasive speech • effective manipulation of the ways ideas, attitudes and values underpin texts and influence audiences
• effective creation of perspectives and representations of concepts, identities, times and places in the assigned topic.
• effective use of aesthetic features
to achieve the specific purpose in the persuasive speech