The whiteboard (and our plan)

Links for 11/16

Links for 11/16

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiX_WNdJu6w How to Tell a Story (NPR)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_ez_g_VqEE Tell Me a Story (minidocumentary)

Class 11/16

As we discussed last class, please make sure you bring in at least three ideas for stories from your life to work on in class!

Remember, just because you're absent doesn't mean you're not responsible for making progress! Our story slam is in just one month--be ready!

NEXT WEEK!

All right. Next week: no conversation exam; instead, the RECITATIONS WILL HAPPEN FOR REAL. This counts for both the "denunciation speech" and "conversation exam" in your final exam.

You need to have BOTH of your selections ready to go. This means, usually, 1) your selection from the packet 2) the speech or poem you chose yourself.

Memorize it. Say it with feeling and expression.

Be awesome.

Recitations

All right people. This is it. Tonight, you perform one of your selections for recitation. Memorized. And awesomely.

Next week: conversation exam with me! We'll sign up for times tonight!

The week after that (11/9): the stories begin.

Good work last night!

For this week:
Please continue to work on memorizing and performing the selection you brought to class and performed yesterday!

Choose a SECOND selection to memorize and recite.  Make sure your second selection is DIFFERENT from your first, in some way.  Your second selection may be from the list I gave last week, or it could be a selection that you find on your own.  It should be SHORT--approximately the length of one of the selections on my list.  It could be a speech, a monologue from a play, an excerpt from a novel, or a poem.

Where could you find other selections?
http://www.poetryoutloud.org/poems-and-performance/find-poems Poetry Out Loud has a great database of short poems that are good for recitation.
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/top100speechesall.html American Rhetoric is a terrific site--these are its selections for the "top 100 speeches" in American history.


Please COMMENT on this page listing BOTH of your selections (your first selection, which you recited last night, and your second selection, which will be new) by midnight tonight--that is, 11:59 PM on FRIDAY, October 7.  Please  note that I have extended the deadline.  Because I have extended the deadline, I strongly recommend that you post BEFORE the deadline; do not be late.

Next week (October 12) please be ready to perform BOTH of your selections, entirely memorized.

For next week (October 5):

Find examples of your own of your ten favorite figures of speech in the handout.  Find these examples "in the wild"--in speeches, songs, TV, whatever.  Post them as comments on here, please, before class on 10/5.

Choose one of the speeches (or poems, etc.) linked HERE.  Memorize it.  Google about it to find information to make your performance make sense; you'll want to know who is speaking and what the context or rhetorical situation of the speech is. Be ready to recite it in class on October 5!