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Teacher’s edition: $24.95
discount price $19.75

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STUDENT TEXT — 190 pages, 5½ x 8½, paperback
ISBN: 978-1-56608-283-9
Learning to feel comfortable with public speaking has a tremendously positive impact on students’ school and future career success. In this second edition of his introductory text for a high school or college level course, Michael Gallagher emphasizes speaking both as a life skill and as a preliminary exploration of competitive Speech and Debate events.
This comprehensive, student-friendly guide to public speaking and debate is now written specifically for the student, with additional notes for the teacher moved to a separate Teacher’s Guide. More clearly organized, this popular second edition of the classroom textbook has a completely new section that addresses speaking across differences in our complicated world. This insightful chapter addresses both individual differences and communities in conflict, offering specific strategies to find common ground.
The other five sections of the book — Getting Started, The Basics, Competitive Public Speaking Events, Debate, and Activities to Hone Your Skills — are comprised of 30 chapters that introduce students to all aspects of public speaking and debate and include exercises and activities to make learning more effective across a broad array of topics:
Ice breakers to get students speaking in front of a class
Fundamentals such as nonverbal communication, listening skills, and group dynamics
Interpretative events, original oratory, informative speaking, and extemporaneous speaking
Congressional debates, cross-examination, and Lincoln-Douglas debates
Varied activities ranging from choral reading and readers theatre to classroom trials, negotiation games, and protest poetry
CLASSROOM SET OF 25 OR MORE: $17.00 each (Classroom set pricing will not be reflected in your shopping cart — we will manually adjust your invoice when we process your order.)
TEACHER’S GUIDE — 146 pages, 8½ x 11, paperback
ISBN: 978-1-56608-284-6
With the creation of a separate Teacher’s Guide with this long-awaited second edition, teachers will especially love the better organization of this version. With the author’s notes to the teacher now appearing next to the corresponding student pages along with plenty of blank space to add their own comments, teachers have the best of both worlds. The 8½ x 11” format allows the many student handout pages to be full-size and easy to reproduce.
ISBN
STUDENT TEXT — 190 pages, 5½ x 8½, paperback
ISBN: 978-1-56608-283-9
Learning to feel comfortable with public speaking has a tremendously positive impact on students’ school and future career success. In this second edition of his introductory text for a high school or college level course, Michael Gallagher emphasizes speaking both as a life skill and as a preliminary exploration of competitive Speech and Debate events.
This comprehensive, student-friendly guide to public speaking and debate is now written specifically for the student, with additional notes for the teacher moved to a separate Teacher’s Guide. More clearly organized, this popular second edition of the classroom textbook has a completely new section that addresses speaking across differences in our complicated world. This insightful chapter addresses both individual differences and communities in conflict, offering specific strategies to find common ground.
The other five sections of the book — Getting Started, The Basics, Competitive Public Speaking Events, Debate, and Activities to Hone Your Skills — are comprised of 30 chapters that introduce students to all aspects of public speaking and debate and include exercises and activities to make learning more effective across a broad array of topics:
CLASSROOM SET OF 25 OR MORE: $17.00 each (Classroom set pricing will not be reflected in your shopping cart — we will manually adjust your invoice when we process your order.)
TEACHER’S GUIDE — 146 pages, 8½ x 11, paperback
ISBN: 978-1-56608-284-6
With the creation of a separate Teacher’s Guide with this long-awaited second edition, teachers will especially love the better organization of this version. With the author’s notes to the teacher now appearing next to the corresponding student pages along with plenty of blank space to add their own comments, teachers have the best of both worlds. The 8½ x 11” format allows the many student handout pages to be full-size and easy to reproduce.
ISBN
Textbook | 978-1-56608-283-9 |
Teacher’s edition | 978-1-56608-284-6 |
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