Finding Your Argument: February 7, 2018

Focus: How can we lay a strong foundation for our Fences background speeches?

1. Warming up with a brief assessment on Grammar You Must Know #5: Parallel Structure

2. Organizing your research and creating a thesis; remember that your speech is not just a summary of your topic, but an analysis of your topic

Click HERE for the planning sheet (due by the end of class on Thursday).

3. Starting to work on your planning sheet

HW:
1. Your speech prep sheet is due by the end of class tomorrow (Thursday). Tomorrow's class will be a work day, but if you need more time, work on it tonight.

2. We will deliver our one-minute speeches this Friday, February 9.