1. Unit 4, Week 3

2. Tuesday Bellwork  Please take the next five minutes and work on Word Roots #13

3. Reminders:  #1: Do not forget that your registration cards are due to ME by Thursday this week. Please get this completed, signed, and turn it is sooner rather than later.  #2: Your “The Pedestrian” Literary Analysis Essay revisions are due on turnitin.com by Friday of this week. The handful of you who are not signed up for this site will need to send your essay to my email. Nicholas.Gearing@dvusd.org I will NOT accepts essays turned in this way from those of you who have access to turnitin.comNicholas.Gearing@dvusd.org  #3: Please do not forget that Friday is Hoopcoming. There will be an assembly and we will be on an alternate bell schedule.  #1: Do not forget that your registration cards are due to ME by Thursday this week. Please get this completed, signed, and turn it is sooner rather than later.  #2: Your “The Pedestrian” Literary Analysis Essay revisions are due on turnitin.com by Friday of this week. The handful of you who are not signed up for this site will need to send your essay to my email. Nicholas.Gearing@dvusd.org I will NOT accepts essays turned in this way from those of you who have access to turnitin.comNicholas.Gearing@dvusd.org  #3: Please do not forget that Friday is Hoopcoming. There will be an assembly and we will be on an alternate bell schedule.

4. MLA Quiz  Take out a sheet of paper. You will write all of your responses for the quiz on this paper. Do NOT write on the quiz packet.  When you are finished with quiz, bring it and your answer document to me and work on something silently and independently until everyone has finished. We will grade them at that time.  Take out a sheet of paper. You will write all of your responses for the quiz on this paper. Do NOT write on the quiz packet.  When you are finished with quiz, bring it and your answer document to me and work on something silently and independently until everyone has finished. We will grade them at that time.

5. Let’s See How You Did…  Please grade only in pen and make sure you have written G/B and your name on it as well.  I will go through each of the answers and expect everyone to be thorough and accurate.  Please grade only in pen and make sure you have written G/B and your name on it as well.  I will go through each of the answers and expect everyone to be thorough and accurate.

6. What Makes a Speech Effective? (Let’s take a few notes on 10 qualities of an effective speech)  #1: Clarity Clarity is an essential feature of a good speech. Speech should be clear and unambiguous so that the audience can understand it easily. If it is not clear enough to express its meaning to the audience, it will become ineffective.  #2: Definiteness of Message Message of the speech should be definite, relevant, and in-line with the subject matter.  #1: Clarity Clarity is an essential feature of a good speech. Speech should be clear and unambiguous so that the audience can understand it easily. If it is not clear enough to express its meaning to the audience, it will become ineffective.  #2: Definiteness of Message Message of the speech should be definite, relevant, and in-line with the subject matter.

7.  #3: Conciseness Audience becomes impatient to long speech. Hence, speech should be as concise as possible. However, it should not incomplete.  #4: Interesting Speech should be delivered in an interesting and pleasing way so that the audience is motivated to pay attention. In order to make the speech interesting, various stories, examples, quotations and jokes can be cited.  #5: Informal Touch Though speech is a formal address, it should be presented in a personal and informal way.  #6: Considering the Audience Speech is delivered to a specific audience. So the speaker should actively consider the expectations, interest and nature of the audience.

8.  #7: Rate of Speech An ideal speech is one which is delivered relatively slowly. It helps the audience to hear and understand the message clearly.  #8: Appropriate Emotion It is important that a speaker know his or her audience and keep them in mind at all times. There is a time and a place for emotions, and it is essential that this is always considered.  #9: Use of Body Language Good Speech goes with appropriate and necessary body language. Therefore, at the time of delivering the speech, the speaker should use various nonverbal cues.  #10: Ensuring Participation of Audience A good speech is one which ensures participation from the audience with the speaker. That means, the audience will ensure their attention through effective listening, expressing their solidarity with the speech, and so on.

9. Wednesday Bellwork  Please select one of the following two prompts and spend the next five minutes silently and independently writing your response to it. Be sure to label your response with the number of the prompt you select.  Prompt #1:  Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. shared his vision of a better future. He shared his DREAM with humanity. Imagine you are going to prepare a speech in the same vein, and begin writing about your DREAM, your vision of a better future.  Prompt #2:  Write about a time when you gave someone advice or tried to help someone out and you ended up only making matters worse. How did you think things would turn out initially? What went wrong?  Please select one of the following two prompts and spend the next five minutes silently and independently writing your response to it. Be sure to label your response with the number of the prompt you select.  Prompt #1:  Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. shared his vision of a better future. He shared his DREAM with humanity. Imagine you are going to prepare a speech in the same vein, and begin writing about your DREAM, your vision of a better future.  Prompt #2:  Write about a time when you gave someone advice or tried to help someone out and you ended up only making matters worse. How did you think things would turn out initially? What went wrong?

10. Reminders:  #1: Do not forget that your registration cards are due to ME by Thursday this week. Please get this completed, signed, and turn it is sooner rather than later.  #2: Your “The Pedestrian” Literary Analysis Essay revisions are due on turnitin.com by Friday of this week. The handful of you who are not signed up for this site will need to send your essay to my email. Nicholas.Gearing@dvusd.org I will NOT accepts essays turned in this way from those of you who have access to turnitin.comNicholas.Gearing@dvusd.org  #3: Please do not forget that Friday is Hoopcoming. There will be an assembly and we will be on an alternate bell schedule.  #1: Do not forget that your registration cards are due to ME by Thursday this week. Please get this completed, signed, and turn it is sooner rather than later.  #2: Your “The Pedestrian” Literary Analysis Essay revisions are due on turnitin.com by Friday of this week. The handful of you who are not signed up for this site will need to send your essay to my email. Nicholas.Gearing@dvusd.org I will NOT accepts essays turned in this way from those of you who have access to turnitin.comNicholas.Gearing@dvusd.org  #3: Please do not forget that Friday is Hoopcoming. There will be an assembly and we will be on an alternate bell schedule.

11. “I Have a Dream” and The March on Washington  Let’s listen to Dr. King’s famous speech and follow along with it as we go. As you do so, please consider the 10 qualities we took notes on yesterday. Take notes directly on the text of the speech.Dr. King’s famous speech  Let’s listen to Dr. King’s famous speech and follow along with it as we go. As you do so, please consider the 10 qualities we took notes on yesterday. Take notes directly on the text of the speech.Dr. King’s famous speech

12. Evaluation and Analysis  You will now work with a partner to complete a full evaluation of the speech, specifically looking at each of the 10 elements and use specific textual evidence to support your analysis. This will be due at the end of the period and should be high-quality.

13. Thursday Bellwork  Please select one of the following two prompts and spend the next five minutes silently and independently writing your response to it. Be sure to label your response with the number of the prompt you select.  Prompt #1:  What is one thing, if anything, that you would you be willing to fight or even die for? Explain your answer fully.  Prompt #2:  Write about the most important person in your life. Who is this person? Why is he or she so important to you?  Please select one of the following two prompts and spend the next five minutes silently and independently writing your response to it. Be sure to label your response with the number of the prompt you select.  Prompt #1:  What is one thing, if anything, that you would you be willing to fight or even die for? Explain your answer fully.  Prompt #2:  Write about the most important person in your life. Who is this person? Why is he or she so important to you?

14. Reminders:  #1: I am doing last call for your registration cards today.  #2: Your “The Pedestrian” Literary Analysis Essay revisions are due on turnitin.com by tomorrow of this week. The handful of you who are not signed up for this site will need to send your essay to my email. Nicholas.Gearing@dvusd.org I will NOT accepts essays turned in this way from those of you who have access to turnitin.comNicholas.Gearing@dvusd.org  #3: Please do not forget that tomorrow is Hoopcoming. There will be an assembly and we will be on an alternate bell schedule.  #1: I am doing last call for your registration cards today.  #2: Your “The Pedestrian” Literary Analysis Essay revisions are due on turnitin.com by tomorrow of this week. The handful of you who are not signed up for this site will need to send your essay to my email. Nicholas.Gearing@dvusd.org I will NOT accepts essays turned in this way from those of you who have access to turnitin.comNicholas.Gearing@dvusd.org  #3: Please do not forget that tomorrow is Hoopcoming. There will be an assembly and we will be on an alternate bell schedule.

15. Connect and Reflect  Yesterday, we worked with one of the most iconic speeches in American History, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech.  What areas do you believe were the most influential in helping this speech reach iconic status? What about these aspects support your beliefs?  Yesterday, we worked with one of the most iconic speeches in American History, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech.  What areas do you believe were the most influential in helping this speech reach iconic status? What about these aspects support your beliefs?

16. “Never Give Up”  Using the same process from the other day with the “I Have a Dream” speech, we will watch as Jimmy Valvano gives a speech at the 1993 ESPY Awards. Jimmy Valvano gives a speech at the 1993 ESPY Awards  Follow along with the text, annotating those places that align with the 10 elements we have been focusing on this week.  Using the same process from the other day with the “I Have a Dream” speech, we will watch as Jimmy Valvano gives a speech at the 1993 ESPY Awards. Jimmy Valvano gives a speech at the 1993 ESPY Awards  Follow along with the text, annotating those places that align with the 10 elements we have been focusing on this week.

17. Friday Bellwork  Please take 3 minutes to review Word Roots #13  Before I pass out the quiz, I will collect the Roots/Bellwork from you.  Please take 3 minutes to review Word Roots #13  Before I pass out the quiz, I will collect the Roots/Bellwork from you.

18. Roots #13 Quiz  Time to turn in your bellwork from this week and we will take the quiz.  When finished with the quiz, turn it in and occupy yourself silently and independently so as to not disrupt your peers who may still be testing.  We will grade it right away when everyone is finished up.  Time to turn in your bellwork from this week and we will take the quiz.  When finished with the quiz, turn it in and occupy yourself silently and independently so as to not disrupt your peers who may still be testing.  We will grade it right away when everyone is finished up.

19. Our Learnings From This Week: