Story telling is one of several great options for a well developed and effective attention getter and/or memorable speech ending...know anyone who can tell a really good story? In addition to startling use of statistics, dramatic and evocative language, stunning imagery and provocative rhetorical questioning....telling a good tale draws people in to recieve your persuasive message...
Let's tell a story together, I will go first--I'll type a short paragraph and whoever responds first should add the next paragraph, and the next post will add to that one, and so on, resulting in a complete and hilarious story I will attempt to read in our next class, OOPS I mean "get together!" So, to be clear, I want you to read all the previous paragraphs and then add a new one to extend our story person by person, ok?
Penelopee K. Finklestein-Kraus was only 19 when she took Sandra's life-altering "Speaking 4 Success" on line course at SCC one summer. Penelopee suffered from SA or "speech anxiety" as they call it in the industry. Sandra, a true wizard at the mysterious art of rhetorical prose had used a highly controversial and some might even say "risky' technique to help Penelopee face her fears and become a great speaker in just 5 short weeks. The way Sandra had helped Penelopee through her on-line course involved 5 items: a rat, an ipod, her cell phone, a bucket of green paint and a snorkel......
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Penelopee used her cell phone to become a great speaker because she always called up her friends and gave her a speech. Then, her friends will tell her what is good and what can be fixed. After get that advice, she calls up her another friend, and gave her improved speech. Then, they will do the same thing. Cell phone was one of the greatest tool for her to become a better speaker.
- Min Sohn
(I couldn't think of anything hilarious...)
While on hold withher friend Kim from class, Penelope remembered back to a special moment during Sandra's life-changing course, when she had learned to use a secret weapon--a trained rescue rat from the Sacramento Zoo along with her ipod and a bucket of paint to nail the perfect speech. Kim really needed her right now, she tried hard to remember the "perfect rhetorical-storm" and then, like a bolt of lightning, it came to her. Kim clicked back on the line and Penelope said.....do some stretching and Yoga, I'm on my way with the ............
...perfect tools. The tools that Peneloppe used to nail her first speech, Peneloppe recalled. She remembered the first thing that she did for her speech was using the trained rescue rat to calm her public speaking fears. It was really risky for her back then.. because rats were her worst fears. She tried and tried really hard to acquaint herself with the trained rescue rat. Day after day, she overcame her worst fear!!"Now that I'm not scared of rats no more. So what's more out there to be scared of?" She thought to herself. Public speaking...?
~TRINH HUYNH~
...PUBLIC SPEAKING IS LIKE SINGING OUT LOUD, SHE THOUGHT. THAT EVENING, PENELOPEE BEGAN HER VOICE LESSONS. SHE CRANKED UP THE VOLUME ON HER IPOD. THE MUSIC WAS SO LOUD SHE COULD BEARLY HEAR HERSELF SING. SHE SUNG HER HEART OUT LOUD TO SLOW JAMS, HIP HOP, RAP AND EVEN SOME CRAZY ROCK SONGS. JUST AFTER HER FIRST FEW VOICE LESSONS, PENELOPEE BEGAN TALKING LOUDER AND CLEARER TO HER FAMILY AND FRIENDS. SHE WAS ABLE TO CONTROL THE SPEED AND PROJECTION OF HER VOICE. PENELOPEE THOUGHT THIS WAS A GRET ACCOMPLISHMENT SO SHE....
---ZOEY PHA---
Felt it was time to prepare for someting even bigger and bolder! She was going to appear on Jay Leno with a title that has never reached such great endeavors, "the igirl." Penelope immediately contacted the Jay Leno show and it was really easy to get ahold of him. Once she spoke to Jay and told him her amazing story with the rat, ipod, cell phone, voice lessions, etc...Jay was so enticed that he had to have her on her show. Penelope got up that morning immediately found a flight with many available seats and was able to purchase her ticket for only $0.44 because the cost of Jet Fuel at the time decrease 176% per gallon. Penelope arrived at her destination (LAX) and only had $5.00 in her pocket, and decided to take a limo because that was the only transportation available in Los Angeles. On her way to the airport she saw many celebrities such as Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Laurn Conrad, Halle Berry and wait , was that who she thought it was...Sandra....It was the biggest celebrity of them all! Sandra was the most famous person on the face of the planet and she went into hiding about ten years ago just like Debrah Winger, to flee from the masses of people....when she saw Sandra...
-Terence Kelley
...Penelopee was really happy and decided to come over to say hello. As Penelopee was running toward Sandra, she was trying to recall the "outline" in her head to make sure the conversation would have "introduction, body and conclusion". As they stood in front of each other, Penelopee couldn't begin the conversation because she suddenly lost her voice due to too much screaming the other days. So Penelopee tried to at least come up with a startle opening by screaming "WOW" as Dan did but she just couldn't. Sandra slowly removed her sunglasses, looked at Penelopee and gently said "WOW" because she wanted to be a roll model for Penelopee (it's like: Remember? Startle opening first, OK?). Then Sandra continued...
TUNG LE
Sandra, a true wizard at the mysterious art of rhetorical prose had used a highly controversial and some might even say "risky' technique to help Penelopee face her fears and become a great speaker in just 5 short weeks hit penelopee all of a sudden. And guesse what?.....
LeeAnne Alvardo
Penelope hit Sandra back and was shocked at the fact that such a well known celebrity would do such a thing. Out of the blue a bucket of green came flying out of Sandra's favortie green purse and splashed Penelope in the face! Penelope screamed at the sheer fact that she could not see anything but Sandra assured her that this was all part of her plan. "If you can't see then your fear of speaking will be gone because the scariest part is standing up in front of everyone," Sandra said. But as quick as the paint was thrown Sandra changed her mind and said, "actually you need to make eye contact with the audience and so forget what I said and...sorry about the paint."
- Daniel Nguyen
Sandra did change the life of Penelopee by giving her the gift of public speaking. She learned the proper outline for public speaking becauseit was drilled in her brain over a few short weeks. Penelopee would never forget that damn outline for as long as she lived. It would also help her in her professional career of public speaking to underpriviliaged upper middle class minorities and their signifigant others. She was very excited to be on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno to promote her gloriuos cause. As she anxiously awaited her appearence on the set in her freshly painted green room, she took her iphone. (lets face it ipods and cell phones are so 2007) She called Ratatouille, he new found rat celebrity friend he met in the limo on the way to the show. He gave her some great advice about making a leak bisque but not about how to handle hershlf on the grand stage of the tonight show. She thought to herself that she should just foloow her instincts and give the underprivilaged upper middle class minorities a positive voice.....
-Christopher Lee
but then she broke out in hives, Jay understood, as they waited together on stage before the taping, gently saying "It is ok, Penelope, I have a huge, long face but people love me and I am wealthy. I took a class with a gal called "Sandra" years ago, on-line, which is crazy, I know because you can't public speak on-line...anyway she taught me everything I know and I owe it all to her and her mentor, Deborah Winger, who can ride a wicked mechanical bull but is sort of crazy now." Just then, Jay fainted and Penelope heard the countdown, "Jay's on in 5-4-3-2........(music begins
....across town in a crowded strip mall near a Chinese restaurant, a stranger wearing a snorkel and legwarmers awoke from a coma, muttering, " ...........
The stranger was Jay, he had absolutely no clue why he was dresses so odd or where on Earth he was. Was he even on Earth? Jay slowly rubbed the side of his head as he looked down at his Rolex and noticed that it must be broken. “Three o’ clock on Friday the 13th, that can’t be right.” “I was just in the studio and it was Wednesday afternoon.” Jay tried desperately to recall his last memories at the studio, “Let’s see the last thing that I can remember is being on stage with Penelope.” “We were just about to begin the taping and….. I remember it getting a little dark…….the countdown was beginning…..everything slowly fading away……a loud ringing in my ears…..and then……..nothing.” “Why can’t I remember?!” As Jay stood, he attempted to smooth the wrinkles out of his candy cane striped legwarmers; next he repositioned the snorkel on his face and began to take in his surroundings. With each direction looking as good as the next Jay decided to start walking toward the Chinese restaurant. “Let’s see if I can find Penelope then perhaps I can find out what has happened to me in the last few days.” Jay said to himself. With that in mind Jay burst open the doors of the Chinese restaurant where…..
Greg Gurganus
Behold Bryan Boitano the famous ice skater appeared and told Jay, " I am your ferry god mother jay, you must go go down the streets of Holly wood in search of the Phenelope girl." Jay looked puzzled and said, " why are you doing this aren't you in Canada or something?" "Jay, don't pay attention to that you must gain the knowledge that phenelope has learned in her speech class to locate her" Bryan said. "Then you may have your interviews." Jay had the expression of a distressed child.Before he could ask another question Bryan did a triple axle and disappeared. Jay noticed an apple store across the street with i pods in the window, and they were glowing, so he headed over there to check it out..........
Emily Manske
as he walked through the door a very ugly woman who looked like a witch walked over to him. She was wearing the apple logo on her shirt. Jay asked, "why are your ipods glowing?" The woman just stood there. Then, a minute later, she answered the utterly confused Jay. "They hold the answer you seek." Jay thought,"Well, the day can't get any weirder so I might as well by one." He bought one of the glowing ipods and walked out of the store. He put it together then was surprised to see...
Kimberly Nielsen
Penelope. He quickly ran over to her and asked her, "WTH happened these passed couple of days?!" Penelope said,"Don't you remember?" Jay looked really puzzled and said, "No, I realy don't! I was hoping you can tell me what happened. The last thing I remembered was right before the count down of the show." Penelope responded, "Well, Jay I think you're better off not knowing." Jay desperately asked, "Why?! What happened? Just tell me I can handle it." So, Penelope told Jay what had happened on the show...
-Susan Pham
...A rat appeared on the glowing ipod's screen. The ipod glowed rapidly in the color of rainbow and started to vibrate crazily like a mad cow. Jay could not hold the ipod any longer, so it dropped to the ground. Surprisingly, something came out of the ipod with a bucket of green paint in the guidance of green light. How did Jay know that was a bucket of green paint? Because he got splashed all over his body! Jay got upset and yelled, "Who's out there?" That creature stepped forward and murmured, "Oops... Sorry I did not intend to splash you..."
"AHHHHHHHHHHH~~" Jay screamed and ran in the speed of light. That creature was a rat, a RAT!!! The scariest creature in Jay's world. The rat frowned and said, "How impolite! I am Ratatouille, Penelopee's new found rat celebrity friend...
Ally Hsu
Oops, Susan responded Kim's post before me. Let me change my post a bit.
...Jay's on in 5-4-3-2....."AHHHHHH~~~" A very ugly woman wearing the apple logo on her shirt threw the glowing ipod to Penelopee's head. Penelopee shouted and fainted. The ipod then dropped to the ground. A rat appeared on the glowing ipod's screen. The ipod glowed rapidly in the color of rainbow and started to vibrate crazily like a mad cow. Surprisingly, something came out of the ipod with a bucket of green paint in the guidance of green light. How did Jay know that was a bucket of green paint? Because he got splashed all over his body! Jay got upset and yelled, "Who's out there?" That creature stepped forward and murmured, "Oops... Sorry I did not intend to splash you..."
"AHHHHHHHHHHH~~" Jay screamed and ran in the speed of light. That creature was a rat, a RAT!!! The scariest creature in Jay's world. The rat frowned and said, "How impolite! I am Ratatouille, Penelopee's new found rat celebrity friend...
Ally Hsu
While Jay was running he realized that not too long ago he watched Ratatouille, that he should not be afraid of the rats, and that green paint, it was like dejavu all over. Then he suddenly remembered the online speech class where he got splashed by Sandra through his computer because he forgot the one of the transitions. After figuring this out, he went back to same iPod store looking for Penelopee to find out about the mysterious day of his show, but she was nowhere to be found. After all this running around he was hungry and went back to the same Chinese place where he saw his fairy god mother......
Tatyana Gidenko
The fairy godmother gave Penelope some chow mein, rice, egg rolls, and crab soup. Jay was so full from all the food given by the fairy godmother. Feeling engerized Penelope had to courage to speak with confidence and wisdom. Penelope speaked to a crowd of rats who cheered Penelope on through the speech. At the end of Penelope speech everyone applauded because of her successful speech. Penlope continue her journey to improve her speech confidence...
Linh Phan
In her quest to attain knowledge and confidence of public speaking, Penelope became very confused and frustrated. After Jay Leno, the rats, the fairy godmother, I mean she just didn't know what to make of it all. She called her friend Jessica to help her figure it all out, but Jessica was just as perplexed, so she called Albert to get his input on the whole story.Albert wanted to meet at Starbucks to discuss it all, they agreed to meet at 9:00. When they arrived, Sandra was there...
-Ariana
Albert happened to have a crush on penelopee, and the only way he could get the time of day with her is if he'd help her with her problems.....
Penelope happend to arrive a little earlier than Albert, so she got a coffee and sat at a table by the window, so she can see when ALbert had arrived. Sandra was coming out of the rest room when she saw Penelope sitting alone, so she joined her. "Hey Homie", sandra says in a appologetic tone. "Oh hi" said Penelopee as she flenched...ready for green paint again. So Sadi joined her and they began to catch up, and penelope told her everything that happened in the past week. As Sadi was starting to explain everything, Penelope fainted and fell to the floor. Sadi yelled "HELP SOMEBODY HELP!!!"....
Then Albert gets there and sees his step sister Sadi hovered over (in his mind)his future wife.....
=] charlene eaton [=
and they lived happily ever after
THE END--_Have fun this summer guys and gals!!!!!!!
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