1. 10th Literature: Wednesday, October 8th and Thursday, October 9th
Standard 1 and 3
MI: New seating chart and new phone rules.
Answer the questions from last class on a notecard.
Have you shared your outline with me?
Turn in your sentences from Unit one, words 11-20
Vocabulary exercise on page 17 and 18 in the orange vocab books.
Opening (notes) and closing (handout) your speech
MLA Style: Works cited and in text citations (handout)
Watch The Last Lecture and discuss
Speeches will begin next Tuesday and Wednesday.
Madlibs if time allows

2. A Dozen Attention Grabbing Techniques For Your Speech
As a springboard to launching your presentation with verve and originality, here are a dozen rhetorical devices that can be used as speech hooks when you're wondering how to start a speech:
Question
Story
Quotation
Visual
Statistic
Startling statement
Personal anecdote or experience
Humor
Expert opinion
Sound effect
Physical object
Testimony or success story
The best grabbers engage an audience immediately, both intellectually and emotionally. These same devices can be used to similar effect to conclude in a way that keeps your audience thinking about what you said.