The Gallery Walk
Purpose: The Gallery Walk
assignment gives you the opportunity to practice your informative speech 4-5
times in front of your peers and instructor before the day on which you are
assigned to speak. The Gallery Walk will
help you achieve three objectives:
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It
will give you a crucial opportunity to demonstrate and to “tune” your ability
to craft a preparation outline and from that a “key-word” presentation outline.
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It
will give you essential feedback from your audience and the instructor on your
topic, your research, and the arrangement of your speech.
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It
will give you valuable insight to your audience; to their values, beliefs and
attitudes. It will also allow you to
“connect” with your audience in an interpersonal and small group manner, before
you address them in a “public” setting.
Description: The Gallery Walk
includes three parts. First, before the day on which you are assigned to speak,
you will prepare a keyword outline.
Second, on your speaking day of the Gallery Walk, you will post your
outline at one of the designated speaking stations in the classroom and deliver
your speech. Your speech should be fully developed with an introduction, body,
conclusion, and oral citations. Third, on the day you are not speaking in the
Gallery Walk you will be required to be an audience member and offer oral and
written criticism of your peers’ speeches.
Each day speakers will deliver their speeches and
the remaining class members, will be split up into groups of audience
members. At the end of 6 minutes,
audience members will have 4-5 minutes to provide oral and written criticism of
the speaker (I will provide post-it notes for written feedback). I will also be circulating, to ask questions,
to make comments and to write my own suggestions on the outlines. After each speech/criticism session, the
audience will shift to the next station. You will have the opportunity to
deliver your speech in front of several different groups of students.
Feedback: Speech criticism will focus on
invention and arrangement. The speaking style in this exercise, as these are
“draft” speeches, will be less formal and more interactive in nature than in
your actual informative speech presentations.
I do
not
expect finished, “polished,” speeches. I
do
expect complete outlines.