The Butte County Office of Education offers a 3 Day Summer Speech Festival Workshop for students grade 4th-8th.  Throughout the speech festival, the speech festival team helps students to address common fears and obstacles to being a successful public speaker including stage fright, eye contact, breathing issues and confidence.  Various activities and games are facilitated that help students to practice building on these skills.  Students will practice delivered a preauthored monologue which they will deliver to peers on the final day of the workshop.

 

The learning objectives of the speech festival include: