Time to Tell a Story...together!
Using a narrative, or story-telling technique is a great way to add style to a longer speech! A good story teller doesn't say too much (no rambling) but just the right amount of colorful highlights are included in a brief and intesting was to gain our attention and keep us involved as the details of the speech unfold. Read about this in your textbooks and try it here this week as well. I'll go first. Be sure to read everyone else's entries before you type yours so it makes sense. Add on one 5-7 line paragraph to keep the story going--no profanity or non-PC language please. Also include a reference to one class member (yourself or some one else) in your entry. An audience loves to hear their name mentioned!
OUR STORY TITLE:"Public Speaking Skills Can Save Your LIFE!"
On an ordinary day in an ordinary town, a seemingly ordinary student sat in an ordinary college classroom. Except for one smal, extra-ordinary detail: Viktor was a top-secret. public speaking-super hero. Although at first glance, he appeared as ordinary as the students around him, beneath his hoodie he wore a glittery golden cape and concealed super powers, such as 'instant credibility," "transitions for every occasion" and "mind-blowing attention getters." He pretended to be texting before today's class while he actually checked in at super hero headquarters from his fancy I-phone. The words he saw on the tiny screen sent shivers down his spine and he realized today would be like no other day in the history of Sandra's classroom. The text from headquarters warned Viktor the super hero to expect a catastrophic public speaking event that very day, in COMM 301 at 531pm: "No!" he gasped, not my Sacred Writing Time!" Just then the classroom went completely dark.
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This was the work of Viktor's arch nemesis Caressa Heckler of all Hecklers. With her extra powerful exploitation of what was once sacred writing time by sharing her entries aloud. Super Hero Viktor was suddenly weekend as if this public speaking from Caressa Heckler was a form of cryptonite and drained his superpowers. "What am I to do?" Viktor thought almost loosing consciousness. He had tried phoning headquarters in the COMM 301 corridors on his fancy I-phone but due to some restrictions the call never made it through..........
It seemed as though Kanwal Tariq had blocked the reception in the classroom. Viktor had no idea that there were people in the class that were on to him. He began to panic, what else was he to do? He asked to use the restroom, but the door was locked from the inside. Kanwal looked at Viktor and began to throw transitions at him..
Viktor found himself pressed between the door and the wall, looking around for some way to avoid the transitions- He ducked under the nearest table, prepared for the worst, when, suddenly, his partner in not-quite-crime, Chris Colbert, appeared, wielding the powers of credibility. . .
At this point the whole classroom was in an uproar. Viktor emerged from underneath the table to stand side-by-side with Chris Colbert against Kanwal's transition bombardment. Kanwal finally backed down - he knew he was outnumbered. But there was still Caressa to deal with! Time was running out! Just as things were starting to look bleak, Viktor and Chris heard someone *giggle* behind them...
... just then the gigglator appeared out of nowhere! She announced "I AM KAYLA THE GIGGLATOR! HERE TO SAVE THE DAY. I AM GOING TO GIGGLE OUR WAY OUT VIKTOR!" So Kayla the Gigglator began her giggling and her powers kicked in. All of a sudden Kayla began to glow so they could find a way out....
Katie...
Foiled again! I never thought that this class of all of the classes would be the one to.... find out.
I came prepared, or at least I thought. Little did I know that instant credibility, transitions for every occasion, and mind blowing attention getters were not going to be enough to handle the dreaded COMM 301. Class was about to start, as I was reading a memo from Speech Outline Man and Proper Grammar Girl, the Professor noticed that I was in fact, no ordinary student, Caressa Heckler quickly dimmed the vision of all civilians who were unlike us, making them all thing the room went black, and so an epic battle ensued.
I honestly could not handle Caressas entries, to make it worse, my com-link to headquarters was down, I had to do something, and quick. I asked to use the restroom, but the Professor was blind and disoriented, attempting to escape I realized the door was locked from the inside, then only one word sprang to my mind; Kanwal.
I was besieged by a barrage of transitions, pressing myself between the locked door an the wall, the only thing I could hear was
"Second, I'd like to tell you about "!
"In addition to"!
"On the other hand"!
The immense amount of sheer transitional energy thrown at me caused me to seek refuge under the nearest table.
Like a god-sent angel, Chris appeared, armed with his suit and tie, and most important of all... the power of credibility.
The WAY Chris looked at Kanwal instantly stopped the barrage of transitions, and made Kanwal think
"Wow, he seems like he knows exactly what he's talking about. I will trust whatever he says one hundred percent. He is a very credible man." Disabled by the powers of credibility, me and Chris stood as the dominant powers in the classroom. When out of the dark corner of the classroom, from right behind the Professors desk arose Caressa. Instantly me and Chris took to arms against this old nemesis, but while they were trying to fight their foe, apparently one of the civilians who were initially dazed by the aforementioned nemesis' powers decided to wake up, and talk and yell things such as
"I AM *inaudible* GIGGLE...*inaudible* SAVE ....THE GOING*inaudible* TO OUT ...*inaudible* VIKTOR!"
After which she started laughing hysterically. I looked at Chris, Chris looked at me, we both shrugged our shoulders, not knowing exactly what happened there.
Caressa took advantage of us being distracted by this Kayla, and started reading her entries from DAYS and WEEKS back, crippled by such force, Chris pulled out his Guide to Public Speaking and began reciting references in an attempt to gain the lost ground back, but we were taking a lot of damage.
With my com-link down, no service on my I-Phone and Caressa talking louder and louder about shoes, pea-coats, capris and youtube make-up tutorials we thought we were surely done for... And that's when 5:35 struck the clock. The Professor and the rest of the civilian class members snapped out of their daze, and Sandrah said something along the lines of
"Okay class thank you for taking the time to write your thoughts down and thank you for being quiet, because I myself sometimes have a hard time being quiet for five minutes at the beginning of class..."
Everyone was sitting down, while me, Chris, and Caressa were standing on desks in our battle positions... Kanwal was on the ground, and Kayla was still giggling. We all gave each other the " to be continued... next class " look, sat down, and went on with our classwork.
-Viktor Varnas 007
My apologies, I was so excited to see my name in the original post I got carried away.
-Vik
...Or thats what i thought that look ment... As we were all back on task doing our class work all of a sudden something came over Viktor. He got a feeling something once again was going to happen. So he tried to prepare himself for the worst... All of sudden Caressa sprung back into action using her powers on Viktor. He shot back with his incredible, creditable speaking and beat her with his amazing skills. It was a great and fullfilling mission. When headquarters finally came back on they congradulated me for taking things in my own hands.
(Omg! I couldn't stop laughing-the irony)
Headquarters also said that becuase Viktor did such a good job, they would send a dance crew over there to perform for the class. Minutes later, Rachel and her dance squad come into the room with some new "jiggy" dancing. Making their way to the front of the class-jumpin over tables and chairs while walking down the isles, the group creates their own beat and showing off their dance skills. As they all regroup at the front of the class to make a speach/rap, the door slams shut while the windows blow open, the lights go out, and a full moon is seen through the blinds that are blowing in the wind. All of a sudden.....
Then out of no where the lights tuned off and we were all confused. Natasha Sharma came to the rescue and said "Dont worry guys, im a mechanic i can fix this problem!" and then she magically fixed the lights but all the students had left the classroom.
-kanwal tariq
And just like an indian movie.. mountains appeared and railroad tracks appeared.. and everyone from the class started dancing while Sandra sang a beautiful song about communication
For those of you who are confused...this is what an indian movie song is like..all happy happy like Barney and his friends.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FB3Q7it4VU
While the students are dancing in the beautiful communication song, a firefly helicopter heads toward the crow at a rocket speed, 35 mi/hr. The helicopter lands right next to our dearest Mrs. Sandra and blows her away. Then, Trang Duong, in a red Chinese dress, steps out of the aircraft. She is holding a big tray of fortune cookies on her hands. In each fortune cookie is a little paper which tell people their grade for the mid-term speech. However, in order to get a cookie from the tray, each students have to hit all of the obstacles out of the way. The obstacles are anxiety, preparedness, and speak for 2 minutes. Chris is the first one to capture the first cookie from the tray, and he seems happy with what writes on his little fortune paper...
Nhi Hoa
Then Mai Trang pulls out her phone to light up the room with the light from her Super Iphone 5Gs. Then, everyone pulls their phones right away after seeing MaiTrang does that. The light from the phones give Super Hero Viktor more courage to go up, and make a funny, interesting speech to the whole class.
MaiTrang Duong
But nobody knew if Super Hero Victor finished his speech.Some say that he disappeared into thin air after seconds into his transition to the main points..........
(more from Sandra--this is getting CRAAAAAAZY!)
That when the CJ's formed a massive, human outline formation around the empty space Viktor left behind. A hovercraft appeared and an alien guest/visual aid-person in foil from a previous class speech came out. No one knew his name since he wasn't in COM 301 and aliens are hard to communicate with. He walked straight to Eric, who was just arriving to class late. Eric tripped on Tara's maroon Blackberry, for it was lying useless on the floor in the back where she normally would have been seated, but NOT TODAY! Tara was ____________.............????????
really Sarah! They were actually the same person, a result of fantastic public speech cloning work back in the late 90's! Since Srah knew alot about Star Trek, she could relate better to the visual aid alien guy. She held up her hand in the Mr Spock vulcan V with her fingers. Then the ghost of Sandra, clad in her old Manteca High Buffalos cheerleading outfit from 1983 appeared above the classroom. She silently yet powerfully held up a list of references in alphabetical order which immediately caught on fire....
Moose
This was such a tragic....sarah started to panic. What was she going to do??? She needed the help of superwoman...tara. A reference was needed in order to make it credible....at the same time interesting. Just as she was about to give up...tara appeared out of nowhere and gave her a reference list that was identical to the one that caught on fire. Did tara have secret powers???
Sonal.
Yes, Tara had the powers of connectivity. She was quickly able to connect with everyone and all in her surroundings and harness that power to build the body to its true potential. At that moment she realized that he had to try to remember all that had happened and it all seemed like it was ages ago. What was she to do? She needed to summon one of her buddies, someone with more secret powers. She had a few in mind, but needed to choose wisely….
Lilia
So she called up CJ Mendez, or CJ 2, Who has a pretty ridiculous memory process. He came at once, busting through the window of COMM 301 at 5:30PM on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and stubbed his toe really hard. But the wonder twin powers from CJ 1 healed him up quickly, and they both began to help Tara remember the entire day. And then, out of no where, BAM!!
He stubbed his toe again. Sandra's evil twin sister, Shmandra, then came up and shouted "Ha! That's what happens when you don't come to class, like last thursday, BOY", and gave him a quiz, that required him to rewrite the entire Pocket Guide in Egyptian Hieroglyphics in 12.43 hours or else she would stub the toes of all people, worldwide. So he shot over to egypt at half speed as his foot was still throbbing, and met up with the master's of ALL Hieroglyphics....TONY!
-CJ Mendez
...Tony then helped CJ rewrite the entire pocket guide..WHOOOO saved by a quiz!!!...so back to classroom COMM 301..Superhero Viktor, is sitting in his regular seat trying to figure everything out when he hears the horrible passing sound of papers!! Papers everywhere, he tries to YELL out a topic, "PIZZA, PHONCES, CARS, MOMMY!!!' But the paper passing doesn't stop...then out from behind the computer, Leticia the Spanish Public Speaker, yells, 'ALTO' or 'STOP' in Spanish, which actually makes everyone stop since most of the class doesn't speak spanish, which let Super Viktor gain consiousness.....
-Maria Perez
As Viktor fell weak and was down to his knees. Viktor had almost seen his whole entire life flash before his eyes. Until suddenly the moment caught up when he remembered back in his days as a young cadet. His teachings from Master Feng Shui, master of confidence and appeal. He remembered to always be strong and to overcome any obstacle of heckles. All of a sudden a bright neon green made Viktor glow. CAN IT BE??? Did Viktor evolve into a shining brightness of....
o hey guise this is cj domondon
ALIENS! The aliens were lighting the entire classroom and clearing the speakers thoughts. Chris came through with the crediblity, Giggles helped make everyone laugh and took the anxious energy edge off, and Camille started to do the hula for the class. Camille jumped up onto the table in the center of the room and gave instructions to the class. She learned this in Hawaii and was suddenly not anxious to speak or dance in front of the class. It must be the aliens. They have taken over her mind...
Tiffani
The Aliens took over Camilles mind and she did what every other Public Speaking student strives to do... Have an Amazing Attention getter.. (Remember kids this can never be a boring speech because the audience will loose their attention.) While Camille is showing everyone her Hula Skills, the Aliens steal Erik and take him to their spaceship where they want to show off all of this knowledge of Video Games. Erik begins to show them how to play Grand Theft when suddenly out of nowhere he is so nervous he forgets how to play....
As the aliens were busy with Eric the epic battle of the class was still raging. Chris shows up and helps Eric remember how to play Grand Theft. Just then Eric and chris slowly convince the aliens to help CJ with the quiz in hieroglyphics. Time was running out they only had 6.43 hours before it was due and CJ only had a third of it done........
Eric
It turned out that the Aliens didn't understand English very well, but they were quite fluent in Egyptian hieroglyphics, for they used the same form of communication! The time was ticking, and although the aliens were fluent in the hieroglyphics, it was hard to explain what they needed to translate. Through the power of good communication skills, the Aliens helped CJ finish translating the hieroglyphics just in time. CJ had just enough time to run at super speed back to COMM 331. CJ saved the world from stubbed toes, but little did he know..
everyone's grades were now at stake. The aliens somehow captured Sandra's grade book!!!! =0 Sandra tells the class not to worry. For she has faith in her super powered students to get it back. CJ flew to Mars for the rest of the classes grades depend on it! We need credit this semester the students shout & cry.....
"Do not worry fellow classmates" CJ exclaimed, "I will get back the precious grade book. But I cannot do it alone..." And just then Super heroes Viktor, Chris, and Tara stepped in to join him. And with their powers combined they formed the League of Extraordinary Public Speakers. The aliens were no match for their eloquent delivery skills. Upon returning with the grade book, Carmen had baked treats to celebrate with the class
(Rachel)
As CJ flew to Mars to save the day he meets up his buddy Chris who is on vacation on planet Jupiter, then meets up with Caressa Heckler and Viktor on planet Uranus as they celebrate the VIKtory of saving the classes grades with Wonder Woman Sandra!!!! Then CJ, Caressa, Chris, & VIKTOR all gas break dip out in their UFO scrapers! ha!
Caressa youda youda best. LOL
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