Speech Sharing

Share your speech with afilipovic-bajamic@myndrs.com or fabafb@gmail.com.

Jan. 20

• trivia winner: Christina

• STAR Assessment
• short story: "All-American Slurp"
• video clip from Joy Luck Club

Next day: analyzing theme, conflict, symbol

Jan. 12 & 14

• Type up and submit your poems electronically
• Working on "Cheesy Love Song" project (writing lyrics to a cheesy love song using either borrowed or original music then recording a performance of it with an accompanying video or slide show)
• solidifying speech topics

Jan. 8, 2015

Today’s 5-minute write: 

Crunch, crunch, crunch. I trudged on wearily, gazing at the abyss of white before me, desperately hoping I was travelling in the right direction. Glancing at my watch and making a quick calculation, I saw I had been walking for 178 minutes.

We then had our impromptu speeches.

Those of you who had come up with topics for the persuasive speech ran them by me. If your topic was approved, I asked you to start developing your three points.

Next day:

• Impromptu speeches for those who wish to redo them or for those who were absent
• Work on persuasive speeches

Dec. 9

We worked on a practice exam today.

When you get a chance, please complete the survey here: Jan-May Survey.

Next class, we'll run through the answers of today's practice exam and see how to improve.

Do have those terms written out.

Dec. 5

Yippee! We had our fun cross-grade today.

We'll look at those terms for the exam next day and do some other prep work for the exam.

Dec. 3

Great debate today!

Next class: Making Connections

Review the overview sheet (uploaded to Google Drive and linked on the side here).