Speechcraft! The 1 Minute Rucksack Presentation!

1) Library - let's take out "Night" Read at least half of it by the end of Spring Break.
You'll need to have read all of it by the second week back.

A Memoir of Aushwitz - this book changes people forever...

2) Your Speechcraft Presentation. Tomorrow!

• What makes for brilliant and persuasive public speaking?
• Check out this online Hollywood example:  http://blog.ted.com/ted2023/
• You tell me what should be marked. Let's build a rubric!

What are the things we carry?

1 rucksack. 1 class. 1 minute. 1 object.  - tell the story of how that object represents you. 

"I see the Moon" by Ms. Colborne - example notes for a one minute speech

1. When I was little my mom used to like to tell me the story of the day that I was born. She would make the story a little more detailed every time... by the time I was too old to curl up with my mom, the story was elaborate, I was born in the wee hours of a night of the full moon, the night was sweltering, one of the hottest nights on record that summer, the nurses were bustling, the doctor was nowhere to be found and my mom was heroically saying no to all the painkillers until 18 hours into labour, she pushed me into the world while shouting, "She's beautiful!"
2. My mom was a story teller. If she'd been a fisher, every story would have been about the big one that got away. 
3. About two years ago - using the miracle of Google - I looked up the moon cycles for July 1970 and found out that the day I was born was somewhere between a new moon and a quarter moon. The full moon was on July 18th, my brithday was the 9th.
4. So, for me the moon represents my absolute and unconditional love of stories, storytellers, storytelling. I come from a story teller. I am a story teacher. My children are immersed in stories. My husband is a story writer. I am the moon. I am stories.
5. My kids love to say out loud a little nursery rhyme they have all memorized whenever they catch a glimpse of the moon (full or not). "I see the moon and the moon sees me. God bless the moon and God bless me." The moon is also the world of dreams, and childhood, and hopes and aspirations and prayers for goodness - in many ways the moon is more than just stories, it is a symbol of hope.
6. The next time you look at the moon, really look at the moon, dare the dream, dare to remember, dare to celebrate the stories of our life.