…tonight’s Homework Sheet™ is posted here:
Seen and Heard Lists: at least one item to each list, every day. This is part of our training in Clarity: noticing the world around us. What is actually going on?
Campaign for Mini-Brain: 30 minutes tonight on your speech (more if you are behind).
Continue with the work we began exploring today.
- What can you incorporate from the Brené Brown/Obama podcast? Look through your notes or reread the transcript.
- What can you incorporate from our discussion about the Clinton DNC speech?
- Personable, folksy storytelling, as if you are talking to a group of friends
- Meaningful details
- Sometimes subtly slipping in your key points and sometimes highlighting them and making them very clear
- Remember that these stories do not have to be about THE MOST EPIC TIME I DID THIS AND IT CHANGED THE WORLD AND EVERYONE IN IT; they can be stories of tiny moments; they can be stories of times when you did the opposite of the quality you are showcasing and it had a negative impact and your learned why that quality is so important as a result; they can be stories about times you wished you had demonstrated that quality; they can be stories about you witnessing someone else doing that thing and learning from it and now trying to do that yourself—there is no one way of persuading us.
- At the same time, don’t shy away from owning these qualities—it is 100% okay to have pride in embodying these traits
Socratic Circle tomorrow: please make sure you have your notes ready and your copy of U.C. with you.
- What do you think was interesting about chapter 9? What questions do you have about it?
- What techniques do we need to have a good understanding of for our graphic novel?
- How might be apply certain techniques in specific moments in the story?
Goals: for tomorrow, please reconsider a goal in relation to Division 7: something specific you can do tomorrow to help increase friendly relations between our classes. Write it down in your comp book. Ask yourself, “Is this S.M.A.R.T.?”
Late Work: what is your plan?