December
5
ELA 10: Dec 5 Presentations of introductory speeches…
- Wow! Students came prepared for this activity! (Well, most of them.) Students were appropriately dressed with some of the boys wearing their Sunday best and some of the girls wearing… their dad’s Sunday best. The students arranged the desks in a circle, put the podium at the front, we poured the sparkling cider (really white grape juice infused with Sprite) into the tiny little champaign glasses I was able to find and we were ready for the introductions.
- The focus of the writing assignment was to write an interesting introduction of someone who has faced a challenge of some sort. The secondary focus of the assignment, also, was to use transitional phrases between sentences and paragraphs to help improve the flow of the writing. Some students did a great job and it clearly made their presentation much better than others.
- We had fun. I have to say, we broke out laughing a few times during a speech or two, and that is not to say that we make light of the person’s challenge that they were discussing. It only means this is a great bunch of students who seem to know when ‘serious’ is necessary and when its not. Part of my favorite of the afternoon, also, was the “clinking” of the plastic glasses as they toasted each person. It was cute.
