Speech to Inform

Speeches were delivered all week.

Tuesday: 1-8

Wednesday: 9-15

Thursday: 16-23

Friday: 24-30

Field Trip to the Guthrie

All English 10 students will be going to the Guthrie on May 1st to see A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Field Trip Money is being collected with the signed permission slip. Check (made payable to Osseo Senior High) or cash for $32.50 is due by March 14th.

Scholarship money is available through High Achievers and Kopp Scholarship. Please talk to your counselor to obtain these funds.

Smartboard

On Thursday, we all learned how to use the smartboard, which I will be using in March for grammar. On the smartboard, we annotated and analyzed the poem "Traveling through the Dark." The worksheet of questions is due Friday.

On Friday, students worked in the lab on the speech outline, which is due at the end of the hour.
Speech topics need to be approved by Ms. Sasse.

Speech to Inform Information

1. Draw # for speeches
2. 8 ways to start and end a speech
3. Powerpoint on Speech to Inform
4. Movie Clips from The Office and Dead Poet’s Society
5. Write a thesis (include the three main parts of the speech)
6. Tomorrow: Poetry analysis with the Smartboard

Speech to Inform

1. Collect typed paper on tone in “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
2. Trial today
3. Directions on “Speech to Inform”

Happy Valentine's Day

1. Write a Valentine's poem
2. Turn in paragraph on the tone of hobbits
3. Turn in paragraph on the tone of Ultima
4. Write a paragraph on the tone in "Sinner's in the Hands of an Angry God"- due typed on Tuesday

Introduction to AP Skill: Tone

1. Turn in What’s That You Say and Irony worksheet in basket
2. Pick up three ring binder
3. Put Tone and hobbit packets in it.
4. Notes:
Tone: Attitude toward topic and audience