After completing the final blog entry below, turn to your textbook. Choose one chapter from our book which you find particularly helpful (NOT THE SHORTEST! Ha ha....) Next, choose two other chapters that you found interesting, or learned something important in, or skipped and can now go back to joyfully.
Clearly indicate which chapters you've selected as MAIN: and SUPPORT:
Create a written piece with a title, demonstrating understanding and using vocabulary from these chapters (underline 10 terms please) and creative ideas. For instance: You could choose the persuasive chapter and then as support, the audience and listening chapters. Then create a screenplay about a student trying to convice her parents to let her go out on a school night--you can use quotations, write dialougue, write a really long poem with ryhming, write the piece as a long 'rap' or song, write a scene from a movie OR post your response on You Tube (give me the url), write a short play, write a journal with daily entries, write a recipe, design a graphic novel, sketch and draw with captions, make a "map" for speaking success--design a board game, write a children's story, or have me approve another idea.
Present briefly (show and tell style) on these final pieces in class during our potluck next week. Plan to spend about 2 1/2 hours compiling your masterpiece! Writing should be equal to about 3 pages of material total--grammar and references will not affect grade as long as I can understand your work, please type whenever possible. (70% of final grade). Do NOT post your actual finals here, but questions and discussion are welcome on comments below!
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HEY GANG--LONG CLASS TODAY(5/8) I APPRECIATE THE PEOPLE WHO WERE THERE THE WHOLE TIME RESPONDING AS AUDIENCE MEMBERS EVEN IF YOU DIDN'T SPEAK TODAY--HOW COURTEOUS!
Samantha had a great question about this 'alterna-final'--she's thinking of doing the gameboard idea and asked: "Do I create the game using my 1 main and 2 supplimental chapters for ideas and the 10 vocab words and then also write a 3 page paper?" My answer is no, the game itself IS the final she'd turn in, the writing guideline of 3 pages I suggeste is aproximate based on a written project, such as a play, a mvie scene, or a funny poem or rap. If you choose a artistic option the 3 pages is not really relevent. Do try and spend around 2 1/2 hours on whatever you create or write, the creative appraoch will be part of your grade! Have fun with these, pick something you'd like to do--how about writing a fake commercial using the vocabulary words? Or journal every day this week and use 2 words each day for your entries--
...When we get creative with our "forms" of writing, our speeches and content also become deeper and richer!
So if i were to make a gameboard to. Can i do something like Have a gameboard that says stuff like.... Go ahead 2 spaces, Miss your turn, move ahead 2 space etc.... and have the vocab words on the game cards nd if they answer with the correct definition they get to move their piece.... or no..
Jacquelyne
I WAS THINKING OF DOING A COMIC FOR MY FINAL BUT I'M NOT SURE HOW TO APPROACH IT. AND I ALSO DON'T KNOW WHICH CHAPTER IT WOULD FALL UNDER. I WANT TO MAKE THE STORY REVOLVE AROUND THE KEY TERMS BUT I'M NOT SURE HOW IT SHOULD BE. I NEED HELP!!
Hi! Jacquie--Yes, right on track--the game itself would include your vocabulary and other details described in the blog--Great idea! Think of simple games from childhood, like candyland!
dANNY--Great idea--pick any chapters that you understand and want to work with, the comic doesn't have to directly relate to the chapter, just use the comic to explain the chapter (and support chapters) See what I mean? So if Informative speaking is a chapter you select, just make the comic be about it or show examples of it using vocabulary as like a "caption" below the drawing, perhaps? Does this help?
ok thank you.....
jacquelyne
also can we use more than 10 terms.
jacquie
sure--if you'd like--S PS: Can't wait to see this!!!
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