What Will Your Verse Be? November 3, 2017

Focus: What will your verse be?

1. Warming up with delivering lines/paragraphs from your memoir

"That you are here—that life exists and identity,

That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse."

From Walt Whitman's "Oh Me! Oh Life!"

2. Brainstorming possible topics for your speeches on ideal visions of America

• As you peruse the links below, take out one index card for each commercial. 

• Jot down the specific vision of America that each offers. 

• Another way of thinking about it: What do we, as Americans, value? What do we want our country to be?

Michael Phelps/Rule Yourself
Women's Gymnastics/Rule Yourself
Jeep: Free To Be
Jeep Superbowl: Portraits
Liberty Mutual
Nike: The Jogger
Nike: Excuses
Nike: Extra Time
Go Army
iPhone/FIFA
iPhone/Olympics 2016
Dicks Sporting Goods: Gold in US
Visa Go World
Dove: How Our Girls See Themselves
Be Brave
Michael Jordan: Failure
Subaru: Daughter
Ram Trucks: Farmer
Ram Trucks: The Courage Inside
Still I Rise: University of Phoenix
Panera: Eat Clean
What Will Your Verse Be?

If you can think of other ads/short videos that focus on ideal visions of America, please e-mail them to me right away & I'll add them to this list.

3. Collecting, ranking, and specifying your ideals by personal interest and importance

6th Hour: Click HERE to enter your topic.

4. Starting the research process (if time allows and you're ready)

• New folder: Speeches
• New doc inside that folder: Research
• Speed-browsing for possible articles/sites that you could help you answer the following questions:
• What is your personal interest in / history with this topic?
• What is the history of this topic in the United States?
• What is the current status of this topic in the United States?
• What are the possible futures for this topic in the United States?

HW:
1. There is one week left to revise/redo any assignments from the past six weeks. This includes cultural hysteria essays, missed fishbowls, ELIC journals, Gothic journals, grammar fixes, and anything else in IC that doesn't accurately reflect your learning. 

All revisions/redos/make-up work due next Friday, November 10.

Reminders:

(1) If you're revising your cultural hysteria essay, you must conference with me before Friday.

(2) If you add to a journal or any other assignment, please e-mail me.

2. Decide on your speech topic and enter it on the sign-up sheet by next Friday, Nov 10.