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Standard 2 : Communicating Orally
Cluster Standards
This cluster includes the following benchmarks.
Visit the specific benchmark webpage to find related instructional resources.
- ELA.8.C.2.1 : Present information orally, in a logical sequence, supporting the central idea with credible evidence.
Cluster Information
Number:
ELA.8.C.2
Title:
Communicating Orally
Type:
Standard
Subject:
English Language Arts (B.E.S.T.)
Grade:
8
Strand
Communication
Cluster Access Points
This cluster includes the following Access Points.
- ELA.8.C.2.AP.1 : Present information in a logical sequence, supporting the central idea with evidence, using the student’s mode of communication with guidance and support .
Cluster Resources
Vetted resources educators can use to teach the concepts and skills in this topic.
Original Student Tutorials
- Tyrone's Tasks Part Three: Help Tyrone deliver his speech with appropriate volume, pacing, eye contact, and posture with this interactive tutorial.
This is part three in a three-part series.
- Tyrone's Tasks Part One: Learn to organize a speech to make it logical, relate to a central idea, use credible evidence for support, and establish an appropriate tone through the use of academic vocabulary.
This interactive tutorial is part one in a three-part series on writing, editing, and giving a speech.
Lesson Plans
- Speaking Negatively: Using the case study, “Speaking Negatively,” students will discuss the importance of a positive attitude in obtaining and maintaining a job. Students will then participate in a speed-networking style activity, focused on practicing professional interactions.
- Behind the Tape: Using the case study, "Behind the Tape," student will identify the errors in the crime scene investigation techniques used by accessing their prior knowledge of the 7 "S" of crime scene investigation. Students will work together to apply the skills they have learned and will participate in a mock crime scene to role-play the case study scenario.
- Importance of Staying Organized: Using the case study, What a Mess (resource #215652), students will learn the importance of organization and practical methods to organize their personal spaces. They will engage in group discussions and work collaboratively to create an organizational plan based on the case study scenario.
- Creating a Positive Workplace Environment: Using the case study, “Out with the Old in with the New”, students will discuss elements of a positive work environment, differing leadership styles and their effects on a workplace. Students will then create a roleplay scenario in which they brainstorm an alternate outcome for the case study.
- Improving Student Morale: Using the case study, “A Peer Review Committee Accepts a Challenging Task,” students will brainstorm proposed questions regarding the case study. Then, in their groups of three, students will use a role-play strategy to share their thoughts about the case study. Students can make real-life connections using examples of other situations that may benefit from a Peer Review Committee.
- The Need for Effective Teamwork: Using the case study, “The Need for Effective Teamwork, ” students will engage in small group discussions about work conflicts, resolution, teamwork, collaboration and time management. Students will then role-play resolving conflict and positive communication skills.
- Energy Friendly Homes: Using the case study, "Energy Friendly Homes," students will work in small groups to research and analyze various home features and their impact on energy conservation. They will create a poster presentation to make a recommendation for which home a family should purchase.
- Creating Sustainable Grocery Stores: Using the case study, “Creating Sustainable Grocery Stores,” students will identify methods or practices of the conservation of natural resources within grocery store chains. Working with a partner, they will research an assigned sustainability recommendation (from the case study) and will develop a pitch to the company’s board of directors that will demonstrate specific methods or practices of conservation that address their assigned sustainability recommendation.
- Duck, Duck, Who?: Using the case study, Duck, Duck, Who? (resource #215700), students assume the role of a the team of lawyers, researching the difference between copyright infringement and fair use to map out their case, including the evidence they will present.
- Social Media Privacy Settings: Using the case study, “Helping to Keep Friends Safe,” students will determine how important it is to understand the privacy settings of social media sites. They will see the danger of how strangers can see their location if they do not adjust their privacy settings correctly on their social media sites.
- Medical Prototype Design Challenge: Using the case study, "Sticking with Family: Using the Engineering Design Process," students will create innovative bandages to address medical needs. They will be divided into groups of three, with responsibilities including bandage design, physical structure creation, and nursing consultation. The bandages will be tested based on absorbency, durability, and flexibility.
- Food Safety Scenarios: Students will review the case study, “A Catering Dilemma” to gain an understanding of safe food practices when it comes to food service, storage, and sanitation. Through a role play, students will demonstrate proper food safety and sanitation procedures.
- The Interview: Students will participate in a role-play scenario of a face-to-face job interview. Students will be assessed based on their interview skills, including effective oral communication, in this integrated lesson plan.
- Alexander Hamilton: The Outsider: Alexander Hamilton's Civic Virtue Presentation: In this lesson, students read portions of Alexander Hamilton: The Outsider by Jean Fritz and will delve into the life and values of Alexander Hamilton, focusing specifically on his embodiment of civic virtue.
Through engaging activities and discussions within the unit, students will gain a deeper understanding of how Hamilton's actions and principles align with the concept of civic virtue and its relationship with contemporary society.
There are three CPALMS lessons that can be used to complement a study of Alexander Hamilton: The Outsider and help students take a new perspective by merging ELA skills with civics knowledge.
This resource uses a book that is on the Florida Department of Education's reading list. This book is not provided with this resource.
- Exploring Technology Part 5: Promoting Our Technology Prototype: In groups, students will decide how to promote their technology. Students will develop an impromptu 2-minute presentation in a format of their choice to share information about their technology with the school and community in this lesson.
- One for All? Or Not. Letter XII: Distresses of a Frontier Man: This lesson is based on Letter XII: Distresses of a Frontier Man by J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur. This "letter" is one of a collection of essays in an epistolary format from the collection, Letters from an American Farmer (1782). In this lesson, students will read and analyze the two central ideas in the text. Students will fill out a graphic organizer on the central ideas and participate in a class debate.
Video/Audio/Animation
- Portraits in Patriotism - Mel Martinez: Middle and High School: Former U.S Senator and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Mel Martínez shares his journey to freedom in the United States. Mr. Martínez was part of Operation Pedro Pan in which unaccompanied Cuban children were sent to the United States to escape the newly formed communist regime of Fidel Castro. Before leaving Cuba, he spent time with his father who shared life lessons with his son. Mr. Martínez distinctly remembers the pilot announcing that they were in America. After moving around the state of Florida in settlement camps, Mr. Martínez was placed in foster care. After four years he and his family were reunited. Mr. Martínez helped his father become a veterinarian in the U.S and as a family they were highly active in the community. His family’s spirit of activism was the foundation of Mr. Martínez’s career as a public servant. He graduated from Florida State University Law School in 1973 and began his political career. He was appointed the U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in 2001 and became a United States Senator in 2005.