Friday, September 7, 2018

One-Minute Speeches, Round 1: September 7, 2018

Focus: What are your strengths as a presenter? What speech skills do you want to work on?

1. Warming up with an assessment of Puritan Words, List 2

2. Setting you up with partners and delivering your one-minute speeches

3. Offering feedback on your partner's claim and evidence; reflecting on your own speech

4. Working on your draft of the Cultural Hysteria essay

HW:
1. For MONDAY: Compose one page of your first draft (double-spaced). It can be an intro and part of a body paragraph, or your first body paragraph and part of your second. Think about what writing routine works for you and for this particular assignment.

2. Heads-up: 

  • We will spend Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of next week on your essays; on Thursday, we transition into Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.



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1 comment:

  1. AnonymousSeptember 9, 2018 at 7:02 PM

    After the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, the threat of school shootings has caused lots of trauma and fear through students and parents.

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