Here’s the remainder of the speech we were exploring today:

Remember to be active viewers, adding to the webs you began today.

Please have your antennae up for things that might be useful for you, for your speech – in terms of content and in terms of delivery.  Remember: talent borrows; genius steals.

…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: at least 30 minutes on your speech this evening.

Continue to consider:

• What can you incorporate from the Brené Brown/Obama podcast?
• Meaningful details—what helps paint the pictures you want us to see in your stories?
• Transitions from idea to idea – what is the through-line of your speech? What is the Big Idea?  How does that idea thread its way through the speech?
• Introduction—how are you drawing us in?

Say your speech out loud at least twice in the privacy of your room.

The first time through, listen for and make notes to yourself about:

• Flow—when do you feel a sense of flow, and when do you hear the flow come to a halt?
• Opportunities for precise word choice—what verb is the right verb? What adjective is the right adjective? Consider what we are learning from Ursula K. Le Guin

The second time through, try the whole thing as we started today (before everyone reverted to being kindergarteners…): eXaGeRaTiNG eVeRy SiNG-GLe CoN-So-NaNT.

Please have an up-to-date printed copy of your speech with you EVERY DAY from now until you deliver your speech to the class during Election Week.

Goals: for tomorrow, please consider class agreement #7: “Practice kindness with yourself and others.”  Create a goal for yourself for tomorrow.  Write it down in your comp book.  Ask yourself, “Is this S.M.A.R.T.?”