Final Blog of the Summer!!!!

Part One: Ok, please post what you thought of the Pirates film and a tenative topic proposition (thesis with the word should in it) you and your partner plan to hotly contest and rigorously debate Tuesday. Try not to duplicate topics. NOTE: Humorous, obscure, feminist, cultural and otherwise unusual critical angles on minor aspects of the film that caught your attention are strongly encouraged...

Sandra's rule for life: Don't go for the obvious, its boring, predictable and easier for the teacher to grade you harshly on. The freaky stuff shakes people up and gets 'em thinking. Confuse authority, perplex people, take them off gaurd...But don't leave out transitions!!!!!!

Part Two of this Blog:Offer some input for a couple of your classmates to help them with their ideas.

SO--Two seperate postings required by each student, one with your own idea and opinion on the film, one offering feedback to others. Additional helping hands will earn extra credit. Finally, I have so enjoyed you all -- Thanks for being the best Public Speaking Team I have ever worked with and truly, thanks so much for the shower, and that lovely memory book you all wrote messages in for me! WOW! --what a special, rare treat! That meant so much to me! Please keep in touch through email and have terrific, speech-free rest of the summer. Blog On--AArrggghhhh!!!!!!

Pirates and the Like

So, we will meet on Tuesday next week, review the persuasive assignment, choose partners for the persuasive-debate-speeches and review some of the study guide for the final, which we will have to take when we meet next Thursday, before we go to see Pirates together at a theater near campus. Here's the Pirates Website if you want to get the jump on the persuasive speech: http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/pirates/SO--Does anyone know if Bruceville Theater is the closest one for us to got to or what time it is playing next Thursday?

Ok, now, for this blog, let's use vivid language, a key to keeping the audience enthralled during your speeches. Three sentences minum for credit and don't forget your name: I will go first:

"The informative speeches on Thursday evening were magnificent! They were so poetic and moving, in fact, that I felt enlightened and emancipated from the heavy, postmodern angst that normally bogs me down, due to their rich, colorful wittiness and deep, probing insight. Bravo! BRAVO!!!! --Sandra