Exercise 1 Goal: This activity is designed to help students watch one someone with a lot of speaking experience and be able
to isolate how important elements besides the content of the speech are to its success. Instructions: Your task is to watch any one of the presidential inaugurals on C-Span's
website <www.c-span.org/transition2001/archival.asp>.
While you are watching the speech, pay special attention to the nonvocal elements like disfluencies, posture, gestures, and facial
expression and determine whether they add or detract from the message. Exercise 2 Goal: This activity is designed to help students become more aware of effective and non-effective
delivery methods. They can also see how important it is for speakers to develop their own personal speaking style. Instructions: JFK and Bill Clinton have often been compared to one another in terms of their lives
and presidential styles. Your task is to watch these inaugurals
<www.c-span.org/transition2001/archival.asp>
and then determine which President has the better delivery based on sincerity, enthusiasm, voice work, and nonverbal elements.
Be prepared to discuss your analysis and have specific examples in mind that you can use to support your claims to the
rest of the class during our discussion. | 
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