Strategies
Teaching the concept of decorum can be taught in a variety of ways. The two that I believe best gets students to understand the concept and the affect that its has is to one, have student visualize a situation with a speaker and an audience. They will have to describe what the speaker should wear and do to gain the audiences agreement before a word is spoken. Students will meet in groups to reflect on their choices and compare and contrast answers. They will summarize the group's thoughts for a class discussion.
The second way to measure understanding of this concept is to have students analyze famous speeches that used great understanding of decorum, or lousy use of it. Video and pictures will be used plus background information about the speech to best analyze the use of decorum. Famous politicians and speakers have used the art of decorum to persuade their audience. The class will look at various examples and discuss how they have effectively or ineffectively used this art. The class will also reflect why the choice was made to have that image. Through this, students will have a better understanding the process.
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