
Homeschool Made Simple ™: Confidence and Public Speaking Skills | 16-Week Life Skills Curriculum | Middle & High School Speech Curriculum | 0.5 High-School elective credit | Grades 7–12
Help your middle or high school student become a more confident, capable, and effective communicator with this complete 16-week homeschool public speaking course! Give your student the tools to find their voice, communicate their ideas, and speak with confidence.
Designed for grades 7–12, this semester-long course takes students step-by-step from introductory speaking activities to research presentations, persuasive speeches, STEM presentations, formal debate, community advocacy, impromptu speaking, interviews, and a final public speaking showcase.
Students gain repeated opportunities to practice speaking while developing real-world communication skills they can use in school, work, leadership, and everyday life.
Students move from:
Personal Speaking → Speech Organization → Research → Informative Speaking → Persuasion → STEM Communication → Debate → Advocacy → Impromptu Speaking → Final Showcase
What’s Included
• 16-week homeschool public speaking course outline
• 16 weekly lesson plans and learning objectives
• Progressive public speaking skill development
• 8 major speaking projects
• Demonstration speech assignment
• Informative research speech assignment
• 2-minute elevator speech assignment
• Persuasive speech assignment
• STEM presentation project
• Visual presentation activity
• Formal debate project
• Community-service proposal project
• Impromptu speaking and interview practice and more
Weekly Format and Outline (example)
Week 1: Introduction to Public Speaking
Focus:
Confidence and the fundamentals
Lessons
Activity
Weekly Reflective Journal Prompts
Skills Students Will Develop:
• Speech organization and structure
• Voice, pace, volume, and delivery
• Eye contact, posture, gestures, and
body language
• Research and source evaluation
• Informative speaking
• Persuasive speaking
• Debate and rebuttal skills
• Self-evaluation and reflection
Printing Recommendation (scale to fit full page)
• Paper Size: 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm)
• Printer Setting: Letter Scale- A4 210 × 297 mm (8.27" × 11.69")
• Scale: Fit to Page or Fit Printable Area
• Fit (if needed) Orientation: Portrait (or Landscape, depending on the design)
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