5 Minute Presentation Assignment - Mr. Hartmann

You will prepare and give a presentation to your classmates based on your self-evaluation and your research into a specific career. The speech must be 4-5 minutes long and you will be evaluated on both content and delivery.

Approach: Based on your thoughts on your future at this point, choose a career to research. You will explore the career from several angles as you conduct research and then write a speech where you will make a claim about whether or not this career appears to be a good fit for you.

Research: Compose 5-10 questions you will need to answer before writing your speech. Here are some examples:
What types of people work in this field?
What kind of secondary and post-secondary education and or training is needed?
How competitive is this field?
Is this career stressful?

The Speech: Your speech must include a discussion of your interests, strengths, weaknesses, goals etc. Make connections between the discussion and the career you have chosed to reseach. Describe the career in detail. Discuss what type of person would be right for this career and why you do or do not fit this career choice. This speech will contain both informative and argumentative content.Research, outline, write, and rehearse your speech. You may use speaker's notes, but you may not read your speech.Due date: Friday, November 3, 2011

Some helpful places to find information:

CareerPath - this website has a free career test you can take

Payscale - information on how much different careers pay- info on top job fields

Gale Student Resources - using this database you can look up information on different careers - type the name of the career you want to research in the subject bar

Informative Speech - Ms. Frishman

Your speech should be 3 to 5 minutes with a 2 minute demonstration.
Implement all that you've learned in this unit including:

Engaging your audience
Patterns of organization
Appropriate non-verbal communication
Platform movements
Techniques for overcoming stage fright
Effective conclusions
Techniques for creating memorable speeches


Please use the following links to explore topics for your informative speech

Informative Speech Example


Informative Speech Topics - provides information on planningand delivering your speechOnce you decide on a topic - search the internet using the links on the right to find information for your speech

Famous Informative Speeches

eHow - online how-to source

We have many books that also may help with this project - please ask!!!!

Persuasive Speech Writing - Ms. Frishman

Global Issues in Context

Opposing Viewpoints

Student Resources in Context

SIRS Leading Issues


Persuasive Speech Topics - this is a website that has many ideas for topics - if you choose one off this list, you may want to use the above databases to search for information about it.You can search by subject or keyword on each of the 3 databases

Economic Systems Project

Compare and contrast the different economic systems in the world today

Choose 1 ofthe following systems to research:

Traditional Economy
Free Market Economy
Command or Central Planned Economy
Mixed Economy

Provide the following information:::

- Explain in detail the characteristics of the economic system of your choice
- What goods and services shoud be produced?
- How should these goods and services be produced?
- Who consumes these goods and services?
- What are the benefits of this system to the people?
- What are the cons of this system to the people?

Case Study::::
Select a country that has the economic system that you have chosen
- Discuss how this country operated within that economic system
- Be sure to give specific examples
- Incorporate two current event issues that are facing that nation
- How does the economy of that country impact the US?

Use the following links to conduct your research::

Economy Watch

Economics

Gale Student Resources in Context

Global Issues in Context

World Bank