Agenda for September 30, 2011

• Warm Up-Idiom Puzzles• Public Speaking Skills• Sharing Memoirs Aloud (If you want to read your

memoir to the class, put your name in the basket on the front table. Names will be drawn at random. We will keep sharing until the last twenty minutes of class.)

• From Words to Image: Illustrating your memoir

Warm Up- Idiom Puzzles

• faredce

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• No ways it ways

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• gone let gone• gone be gone

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• nooutwhere

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• habirdnd=butwosh

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• Now let’s check our answers.

Warm Up- Idiom Puzzles

• faredce

• Red in the face

Warm Up- Idiom Puzzles

• No ways it ways

• No two ways about it

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• gone let gone• gone be gone

• Let bygones be bygones.

Warm Up- Idiom Puzzles

• nooutwhere

• Out in the middle of nowhere

Warm Up- Idiom Puzzles

• habirdnd=butwosh

• A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

Now let’s prepare to share our memoirs.

• DO speak clearly (enunciate).• DO project your voice so that everyone can hear.• DO vary your pace and tone to complement your

message.• DO make eye contact with your audience.

Words to Image

• We have written journal responses to pictures, but now we want to take our words and turn them into images.

• Create a 3-5 frame full-color comic strip that tells the story of your anecdote. Include details of the setting and characters, and depict the main events of your plot. Use word bubbles for dialogue. Turn these in Wednesday.