{"id":7070,"date":"2023-11-29T09:07:01","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T17:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/?p=7070"},"modified":"2023-11-29T09:07:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T17:07:01","slug":"macc-ted-talks-theme-of-passion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/2023\/11\/29\/macc-ted-talks-theme-of-passion\/","title":{"rendered":"MACC TED Talks &#8212; Theme of &#8220;PASSION&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Everyone!<\/p>\n<p>We will be creating our own TED TALKS under the theme of &#8220;Passion&#8221; over the next month!<\/p>\n<p>In preparation for this, begin brainstorming ideas about a passion you have that you feel you would like to share with others.<\/p>\n<p>Also, begin watching some TED Talk examples, with live people versus animations, to get ideas about what a TED Talk is. This way, we can discuss it in class when we are together. Here are some possible options that are kid-friendly:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/playlists\/129\/ted_under_20\">Ted Talks By Kids For Kids<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/playlists\/86\/talks_to_watch_with_kids\">Ted Talks to Watch With Kids<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Be thinking of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What makes a good TED Talk?<\/li>\n<li>What will your key problem, question, or topic sentence be to start your talk?<\/li>\n<li>What evidence will you use to prove your point?<\/li>\n<li>Is your topic too big for two minutes? Too small?<\/li>\n<li>Are you passionate about your topic?<\/li>\n<li>Could you talk about anything you like to do?<\/li>\n<li>Could you show us anything from home that is important to you?<\/li>\n<li>Will you need to do any research to find out about your topic?<\/li>\n<li>Have you thought about what other people who might disagree with you will think? How will you change their minds?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Right now, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">all you need to do<\/span> is watch a TED Talk and begin brainstorming ideas. I will let you know of next steps as we are ready.<\/p>\n<p>As we create our speeches, we will be focusing on strong paragraphs, descriptive and persuasive vocabulary, avoiding run-on sentences, and public-speaking techniques. The TED Talk speeches will be given in January, but by the time we go to Winter Break, we will have a very rough draft ready, so we will be ready to refine it when we get back. The speech will be five paragraphs in length. I will be sharing the rubric for performance with you in class.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to hearing your ideas.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Everyone! We will be creating our own TED TALKS under the theme of &#8220;Passion&#8221; over the next month! In preparation for this, begin brainstorming ideas about a passion you have that you feel you would like to share with others. Also, begin watching some TED Talk examples, with live people versus animations, to get ideas about what a TED<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4053,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7070"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4053"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7070"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7074,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7070\/revisions\/7074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}