Focus: What must we, as Americans, transcend today?
1. Warming up by exploring modern transcendentalist communities (some are actual places; some are cyber spaces)
- What are the goals of each community?
- Which transcendentalist concepts (self-reliance, strong connection to nature, living deliberately, redefining "essential," and civil disobedience) are celebrated in these communities? What's being transcended, and how?
- Do any of these communities appeal to any part of you? Why or why not?
2. Developing and conferencing on your speeches:
- Look over your previous speech rubrics. What are your personal goals for this speech?
- Consider today's focus question: What do we need to rise above and beyond, and how?
- Figure out the underlying structure of your speech. Click here if you'd like a prep sheet.
3. Fine tuning important details:
- What will be the first thing you say to us?
- Be vulnerable (pathos/ethos).
- Consider telling a story (ethos).
- Consider addressing/involving your audience (pathos).
- Consider shocking/intriguing us with a fact (logos).
- What will be the last thing you say to us?
- Make us believe in your ideal.
- Consider calling us to action.
- Your speech took us on a little journey. The ending should be even better than the beginning.
"And that's my speech about ____." "And that's pretty much it."
- What will be on the slides behind you?
- An image?
- A single word or short phrase?
- A quotation?
- A graph or chart?
- A video you made that's no longer than 20 second in duration?
- Remember to avoid guiding bullet points or any writing that goes beyond a phrase or single quotation.
HW:
1. Assigned book club reading and syllabus-creating for Thursday. This will be your final book club discussion.
2. Work on your final speech by writing/outlining, preparing your media, and practicing every night. Be ready to deliver it on the day you signed up; THERE IS A 50% DEDUCTION IN YOUR GRADE FOR NOT GOING ON THE DAY YOU SIGNED UP FOR.
3. Click HERE if you'd like to preview the rubric for your transcendentalist blog posts. Your blog, as well ALL MAKE-UP WORK / REVISIONS FROM THE LAST 6 WEEKS must be completed by 3:00 pm on Thursday, December 14. Please note: This will be one of the few assignments that you will not be able to revise or take extra time on because we are at the end of the semester.
1. Assigned book club reading and syllabus-creating for Thursday. This will be your final book club discussion.
2. Work on your final speech by writing/outlining, preparing your media, and practicing every night. Be ready to deliver it on the day you signed up; THERE IS A 50% DEDUCTION IN YOUR GRADE FOR NOT GOING ON THE DAY YOU SIGNED UP FOR.
3. Click HERE if you'd like to preview the rubric for your transcendentalist blog posts. Your blog, as well ALL MAKE-UP WORK / REVISIONS FROM THE LAST 6 WEEKS must be completed by 3:00 pm on Thursday, December 14. Please note: This will be one of the few assignments that you will not be able to revise or take extra time on because we are at the end of the semester.
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