Warm-up Activity: 3rd period:
Part one: 5 minutes
In your journal, make a list of 10 common problems that people or families often face. You can draw from your own experience, from books, or films that you have seen for ideas. You may also use your imagination (which is what it's for...) Come up with 10 common problems and list these problems in your journal.
Part two: 15 minutes.
Choose one of the problems from your list. Write a very short speech about this problem (2-3 paragraphs in length is fine). Identify what the problem is, where it occurs or why it happens, use examples to help you explain what it is or how the problem affects families, then come up with at least 1-2 ways a person might be able to overcome this problem. End your very short speech with this advice. Your speech should have a nice hook to grab our attention, enough detail to identify and answer the questions posed above, and conclude with some advice about how to solve this common problem. End your speech with something for us to think about.
Part three: 10-15 minutes
Deliver your short extemporaneous speech to a small group of 2-4 peers. Take turns listening to each other's speeches. Conclude by giving some advice to each speaker about how they might improve their speech or public speaking skills.
Then, during period 4, or when you have completed your speech:
1. Please check out the link below on August Wilson.
2. In your journal take a few notes about how he got started writing plays and what he was attempting to do. What are his plays generally about?
Information about August Wilson can be found here. In the next room after we pick up the play, we will view this interview as well: August Wilson interview
3. We will be picking up the play Fences by August Wilson and beginning it today. When we return from the library, please get into the same groups you had while delivering your extemporaneous speeches. Please select parts and begin reading out loud in your groups today.
4. Read at least Act One, Scene One by the end of class today. If you do not complete this scene today, please complete your reading for next class. Bring your play scripts with you to next class.
HOMEWORK: Complete Act 1, scene 1 if you have not already done so during class. Turn in your extemporaneous speech note cards for participation credit.
Part one: 5 minutes
In your journal, make a list of 10 common problems that people or families often face. You can draw from your own experience, from books, or films that you have seen for ideas. You may also use your imagination (which is what it's for...) Come up with 10 common problems and list these problems in your journal.
Part two: 15 minutes.
Choose one of the problems from your list. Write a very short speech about this problem (2-3 paragraphs in length is fine). Identify what the problem is, where it occurs or why it happens, use examples to help you explain what it is or how the problem affects families, then come up with at least 1-2 ways a person might be able to overcome this problem. End your very short speech with this advice. Your speech should have a nice hook to grab our attention, enough detail to identify and answer the questions posed above, and conclude with some advice about how to solve this common problem. End your speech with something for us to think about.
Part three: 10-15 minutes
Deliver your short extemporaneous speech to a small group of 2-4 peers. Take turns listening to each other's speeches. Conclude by giving some advice to each speaker about how they might improve their speech or public speaking skills.
1. Please check out the link below on August Wilson.
2. In your journal take a few notes about how he got started writing plays and what he was attempting to do. What are his plays generally about?
Information about August Wilson can be found here. In the next room after we pick up the play, we will view this interview as well: August Wilson interview
3. We will be picking up the play Fences by August Wilson and beginning it today. When we return from the library, please get into the same groups you had while delivering your extemporaneous speeches. Please select parts and begin reading out loud in your groups today.
4. Read at least Act One, Scene One by the end of class today. If you do not complete this scene today, please complete your reading for next class. Bring your play scripts with you to next class.
HOMEWORK: Complete Act 1, scene 1 if you have not already done so during class. Turn in your extemporaneous speech note cards for participation credit.
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