Great Opening Activity

After watching some funny interviews on Youtube with the surfer dude and valley girl we had some fun with the newscaster and interviewee.

The One Minute INTERVIEW  --  Learning to think on their feet.  Told the story of Aidan going to his Eagle scout project only to find that two newspapers and a magazine were there to ask him questions with the camera in his face.    Learning this is very important in a world of technology.

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One youth is a new reporter who decides what catastrophe has happened and crafts their questions to find out the answers,

but

The second youth is the eyewitness who has to think on their feet and answer questions in a great challenging way at times leading the newscaster in a whole different way.

Fun, Fun, Fun.
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The topics for one minute speed speech practice were:

Youth under 18 should be bicycle riders only


All the people in the world should be bald

All contact sports should be banned

All  music in public places should be banned

Everyone in the United States should have to wear animal print every day.

Outspoken Ideas for Speech Activities

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Random Word Generator:  Select words, pass out word and definition to each class member.  They must make up a word as a second definition and see if they can flummox the class.

Example:

Macroclemys        Definition: A genus of alligator snapping turtles

Bibacious             Definition: Addicted to drinking

Notal     Definition: Of or pertaining to the back dorsal

Budgy     Definition: Consisting of fur

Trental  Definition: An office and mass for the dead on the thirtieth day after death or burial

Legate   Definition: An ambassador or envoy

Quinsey   Definition:    Athabaskan Igloo or   Definition:  Complication of tonsillitis  (both correct, differently spelled)  

Calamistration             Definition: The act or process of curling the hair

Muggins   Definition: A game of dominoes in which the object is to make the sum of the two ends of the line some multiple of five

Toat  Definition: The handle of a joiners plane

Auricled   Definition: Having ear shaped appendages or lobes auriculate as auricled leaves

Assafoeligtida Definition: Indian Spice also called  Hing

Impudicity Definition: Immodesty

Botuliform:    Definition:  Sausage shaped

Pavonian  Definition: Of or pertaining to a peacock

Woodruff Definition: Wine flavoring

Week Six Argument Lecture

Define Argument - current day and then in the 1828 dictionary.

1828 ARGUMENT, noun [Latin argumentum.]

1. A reason offered for or against a proposition, opinion, or measure; a reason offered in proof, to induce belief, or convince the mind; followed by for or against.

2. In logic, an inference drawn from premises, which are indisputable, or at least of probable truth.

3. The subject of a discourse or writing.

4. An abstract or summary of a book, or the heads of the subjects.

5. A debate or discussion; a series of reasoning; as, an argument was had before the court, in which argument all the reasons were urged.

6. In astronomy, an arch by which we seek another unknown arch, proportional to the first.

Connect with previous lessons:  Argument are proofs and those can be the pitons on yor climb.  A strong argument is based on proofs and proofs come from research.  

DIvide class in two groups-- Pro and Con.  

Argument 1 minute

Rebut 1 minute

Argument 1 minute

Rebut 1 minute

Give topic and one minute for preparation:  

Judges grade according to how many arguments were made, less how many rebutted.  

Humorous Speech Topics

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


http://www.funnp.com/misc/easy_good_interesting_informative_speech_topics.html


http://ezinearticles.com/?9-Fun-Speech-Class-Activities&id=7207665


Ideas for argument topics

Teen Failure is a Fallacy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2XtDwKJQTw

TEENS ARE MEANT FOR EXCeLLENCE !

Inspirationlampost.com

Top 100 Speeches All Time

Pick three of these speeches to read/watch/listen to.


http://www.americanrhetoric.com/top100speechesall.html

Week Four

GATHERING ACTIVITY:

Conductor’s Game—loud, soft, musically, choppy, falsetto, bass,

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Overview last two weeks.    What do your notes look like? 

What were your TAKE HOMES?

#1   Rhetoric   Use it to craft arguments and answer questions

#2  How strong are your pitons—proofs.

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LECTURE

    #3   Do you have a vision?   Start with the End in Mind

Lecture:  Vision.

Philosophical questions? 

Who are you?  Why are you here?   

What’s in your backpack” talk by Bytheway. 

PRACTICE:

Impromptu Speaking:  Hero speeches

ANNOUNCEMENTS

SPEED SPEECHES at 1^st Semester Culminating Activity in January. 

HOMEWORK PAGE:   Vocabulary page