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.
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
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.
Thursday, October 6, 2011
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 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.
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