Monday, February 20 - Thursday, February 23

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Thursday
HINK PINKS!

  1. Computer room - time to work on your speech.
Wednesday
HINK PINKS!

  1. Reading time for short stories
  2. Using the new speech rubric, how would you rate some student's speeches on a 6 point scale.
  3. Rhetorical devices and their effects - Powerpoint
  4. Room 100 to work on your speech. It must be handed-in at the end of tomorrow's class. 
TYPE OF SPEECH: Persuasive/manipulative
AUDIENCE: Teens
Make sure your speech passes the "Gateway" criteria BEFORE you hand it in. 
The Gateway criteria include checking your writing for proper paragraphing, spelling, capitalization, proofread for typing errors, and grammatical errors (look out for sentence fragments / incomplete sentences, and run-on sentences). YOU SHOULD REVIEW THE ASSIGNMENT RUBRIC BEFORE SUBMITTING TO MAKE SURE YOU HAVE MET THE CRITERIA FOR THE ASSIGNMENT.


 Tuesday
HINK PINKS!
  1. Reading time for short stories
  2. Using the blank rubric from yesterday, write down notes about the elements of a quality speech based on the information in the video: Nancy Duarte https://www.ted.com/talks/nancy_duarte_the_secret_structure_of_great_talks  start -6:30.
  3. Complete defining all the criteria for a quality speech. Look at a few more student examples of speeches. World Hunger Speech again and PostIts! 
  4. Rhetorical devices and their effects - Powerpoint
  5. Mark blue parallelism exercises as a class.
  6. NEW! Parallelism exercise - small quiz next week.
Nancy Duarte TED talk - 18 minutes long:
https://www.ted.com/talks/nancy_duarte_the_secret_structure_of_great_talks
How to write a killer TED speech:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/nickmorgan/2012/07/09/5-quick-steps-to-a-killer-ted-speech/#7d9b30c541ae

Topics:

http://www.write-out-loud.com/interesting-speech-topics.html
Monday
HINK PINKS!
  1. Reading time for short stories
  2. Speech annotation was due last Thursday.
  3. Mark blue parallelism exercises as a class.
  4. Look at a few student examples of speeches.
  5. Time to begin thinking about writing your own speech - class time will be provided to get it started. REMEMBER, THIS IS A PERSUASIVE/MANIPULATIVE SPEECH - not an explanitory/informative speech about, for example, "Bonsai Tree Propagation". Before you start to write, we will take a look at the structure of a speech. Using the blank rubric, begin to write down criteria for a quality speech based on the information in the video: Nancy Duarte https://www.ted.com/talks/nancy_duarte_the_secret_structure_of_great_talks  start -6:30.
Nancy Duarte TED talk - 18 minutes long:
https://www.ted.com/talks/nancy_duarte_the_secret_structure_of_great_talks
How to write a killer TED speech:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/nickmorgan/2012/07/09/5-quick-steps-to-a-killer-ted-speech/#7d9b30c541ae

Topics:
http://www.write-out-loud.com/interesting-speech-topics.html

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