Tuesday December 13th, 2016

Agenda

• Major Project

Major Project 

Presentation Day!

Tuesday December 5th, 2016

Agenda

• Major Project

Major Project 

Last week before our presentation!! 

We made invitation cards and posters for the the hallway. Students made final edits to their presentation. They were instructed to get everything ready at the end of class today, so that when time came to give their presentation next week, each student would be well prepared. 

We drew numbers from a box to see who would go first. Presentations begin at 5pm and each presentation is 5 minutes. The entire presentation should take about 15 minutes. We will have 30 minutes of prep, including preparing the room and the final touches of our presentations, before presentations begin. 

We're excited to present what we've been working on all semester! After the presentations, we'll have snacks to celebrate a fantastic year. 

Tuesday November 29th, 2016

Back from beak! 

Agenda

• Icebreaker
• Daily Activity
• Major Project

Icebreaker 

Short, 15 - 30 minute, activities that get campers ready for our daily activity and major projects. Icebreakers include games like charades, tongue twisters, telephone game, and more.

"Press Record" - Students were given 2 minutes to go over the bullet points of their speech. Sounds easy, but we threw our class camera on record so students could practice their speech, watch the footage, and get feedback to edit their presentations. This is the second time we've done this exercise in order to prep the students for their presentation in 2 weeks. 

Daily Activity 

Presentation Discussion - The who, what, when, where, how's, and why's of our presentations were discussed. As we get closer to the last day of class and towards our presentation, students will need to be confident in their speech as well as their speaking skills. We'll go over each student's presentation and begin to make final edits to the presentations.  

Major Project 

After our Daily Activity, students will take the feedback they received and modify their Major Projects and begin to put their final touches on their drafts before finalizing them in a few weeks. Students reminded their presentation takes place Tuesday December 6th, 2016 at 430pm. Reminders will be placed throughout IQuest and given to students so they may pass out to family, other IQuest classmates, and friends.

Tuesday November 15th, 2016

Agenda

• Icebreaker
• Daily Activity
• Major Project

Icebreaker 

Short, 15 - 30 minute, activities that get campers ready for our daily activity and major projects. Icebreakers include games like charades, tongue twisters, telephone game, and more.

"Press Record" - Students were given 2 minutes to go over the bullet points of their speech. Sounds easy, but we threw our class camera on record so students could practice their speech, watch the footage, and get feedback to edit their presentations. 

Daily Activity 

Presentation Discussion - The who, what, when, where, how's, and why's of our presentations were discussed. As we get closer to the last day of class and towards our presentation, students will need to be confident in their speech as well as their speaking skills. We'll go over each student's presentation and begin to make final edits to the presentations.  

Major Project 

After our Daily Activity, students will take the feedback they received and modify their Major Projects and begin to put their final touches on their drafts before finalizing them in a few weeks. Students reminded their presentation takes place Tuesday December 6th, 2016 at 430pm. Reminders will be placed throughout IQuest and given to students so they may pass out to family, other IQuest classmates, and friends.

Tuesday November 8th, 2016

Agenda

• Icebreaker
• Daily Activity
• Major Project

Icebreaker 

Short, 15 - 30 minute, activities that get campers ready for our daily activity and major projects. Icebreakers include games like charades, tongue twisters, telephone game, and more.

"Endings" - Students get a minute and a half to come up with a short story to go with a random ending given by the instructor. Students must keep fillers to a minimum, and make sure their story flows without confusing the audience. Students must complete the beginning and middle portions of the story! 

Daily Activity 

Practice Speech

Students will take 5 to 7 minutes and practice what they have on their speech so far. The goal is to practice speaking in front of the audience with the material they've prepared, feel how their speech feels to give to an audience, and gain audience feedback before their final presentation in a few weeks. 

Major Project 

After our Daily Activity, students will take the feedback they received and modify their Major Projects and begin to put their final touches on their drafts before finalizing them in a few weeks. Students reminded their presentation takes place Tuesday December 6th, 2016 at 430pm. Reminders will be placed throughout IQuest and given to students so they may pass out to family, other IQuest classmates, and friends.

Tuesday November 1st, 2016

Agenda

• Icebreaker
• Daily Activity
• Major Project

Icebreaker 

Short, 15 - 30 minute, activities that get campers ready for our daily activity and major projects. Icebreakers include games like charades, tongue twisters, telephone game, and more.

"Connect the Nouns" - Students get a minute and a half to come up with a short story that included the 2 nouns generated by a random noun generator. Students must keep fillers to a minimum, and make sure their story flows without confusing the audience. 

Daily Activity 

Organization and Visual Aid Discussion

Discussed organization, key reasons to organize, and helpful ways to be organized. 

Key Reasons for Organizing

• achieve goals
• manage time
• utilize free time and space

Way to be Organized

• calendars
• planners
• to do list
• storage boxes/crates/shelves
• binders/folders
• weekly cleaning and organizing

Went over various types of visual aid students can use, including Google presentations which the students began using last week in class. 

• Power Point
• Props
• Video
• Charts

Major Project 

Students continue working on their project via Google presentation. 

Tuesday October 25th, 2016

Agenda

• Icebreaker
• Daily Activity
• Major Project

Icebreaker 

Short, 15 - 30 minute, activities that get campers ready for our daily activity and major projects. Icebreakers include games like charades, tongue twisters, telephone game, and more.

"Connect the Nouns" - Students get a minute and a half to come up with a short story that included the 2 nouns generated by a random noun generator. Students must keep fillers to a minimum, and make sure their story flows without confusing the audience. 

Daily Activity 

Organization and Visual Aid Discussion

Discussed organization, key reasons to organize, and helpful ways to be organized. 

Key Reasons for Organizing

• achieve goals
• manage time
• utilize free time and space

Way to be Organized

• calendars
• planners
• to do list
• storage boxes/crates/shelves
• binders/folders
• weekly cleaning and organizing

Went over various types of visual aid students can use, including Google presentations which the students began using last week in class. 

• Power Point
• Props
• Video
• Charts

Major Project 

Students continue working on their project via Google presentation. 

Tuesday October 18th, 2016

Agenda

• Icebreaker
• Daily Activity
• Major Project

Icebreaker 

Short, 15 - 30 minute, activities that get campers ready for our daily activity and major projects. Icebreakers include games like charades, tongue twisters, telephone game, and more.

"Continuous Story" - Students get a minute to come up with an original, alternative end to one of their favorite stories. Students must keep fillers to a minimum, and make sure their story flows without confusing the audience. 

Daily Activity 

"How to Write and Give a Speech" - Students practiced their note taking skills by reading this note taking book in class. Book was projected on screen while instructor read the text aloud. Students took notes on the text using the Cornell note taking format. 

Major Project 

Introduction -  Students used the computers to research their topic, take notes on their topic, and write an outline. 

Tuesday October 11th, 2016

Agenda

• Icebreaker
• Daily Activity
• Major Project

Icebreaker 

Short, 15 - 30 minute, activities that get campers ready for our daily activity and major projects. Icebreakers include games like charades, tongue twisters, telephone game, and more.

"Alternative Ending" - Students get a minute to come up with an original, alternative end to one of their favorite stories. Students must keep fillers to a minimum, and make sure their story flows without confusing the audience. 

Daily Activity 

"How to Write and Give a Speech" - Students practiced their note taking skills by reading this note taking book in class. Book was projected on screen while instructor read the text aloud. Students took notes on the text using the Cornell note taking format. 

Major Project 

Introduction -  Students used the computers to research their topic, take notes on their topic, and write an outline. 

Tuesday October 4th, 2016

Agenda

• Icebreaker
• Daily Activity
• Major Project

Icebreaker 

Short, 15 - 30 minute, activities that get campers ready for our daily activity and major projects. Icebreakers include games like charades, tongue twisters, telephone game, and more.

"Action Story" - Students make up an action-packed story; the student and audience have to act out the actions words as the students tells the story! 

Daily Activity 

"How to Write and Give a Speech" - Students practiced their note taking skills by reading this note taking book in class. Book was projected on screen while instructor read the text aloud. Students took notes on the text using the Cornell note taking format. 

Major Project 

Introduction -  Students used teh computers to research their topic, take notes on their topic, and write an outline. 

Tuesday September 27th, 2016

Agenda

• Icebreaker
• Daily Activity
• Major Project

Icebreaker 

Short, 15 - 30 minute, activities that get campers ready for our daily activity and major projects. Icebreakers include games like charades, tongue twisters, telephone game, and more.

"My Friend's Fictional Life" - Students drew a classmates name at random, then had a moment to create a fictional story about that classmate including; their name, where they're from, what they do for work, what they do for fun, what they're good at, and what they can improve on. 

Daily Activity 

"Write It Down!" - Students practiced their note taking skills by reading this note taking book in class. Book was projected on screen while instructor read the text aloud. Students took notes on the text using the Cornell note taking format. 

Major Project 

Introduction -  Students took the last 15 minutes of class to focus on their introduction/ opening of their speech. Students were to include an attention grabbing introduction, topic, and main points. 

Tuesday September 13th, 2016

Agenda

• Icebreaker
• Daily Activity
• Major Project

Icebreaker 

Short, 15 - 30 minute, activities that get campers ready for our daily activity and major projects. Icebreakers include games like charades, tongue twisters, telephone game, and more.

"Definitions" - Each student received a made up word from the student to their right. The students then created a definition for the made up word they received. The student then gave the student to their left a new made up word for them to define.

Daily Activity 

Taking Organized Notes

Students received handouts with tips on taking well organized notes for lectures and test, as well as tips on listening in class. Students went over each handout and used highlighters to go over significant text. 

Major Project 

Reviewed students research on their major topic taken with Cornell Notes. Tied in our Daily Activity with our Major Project discussion so students could directly see the importance of good note taking. Reviewed some of the main topics from last week's class, s well as our class print out which outlined important major project items.

Students organized their notes into an outline that included preparation, choosing main points, choosing supporting information, establishing linking statements, developing an opening, developing a conclusion, and reviewing the presentation.

- Organizing Our Presentation Subject

1. Main topic - what are you writing about?
2. Subtopic - topics that elaborate on your main topic
3. Supporting Details - details about your subtopic and main topic

- Planning our Presentation:

• Research your subject thoroughly and record the data you find your information from.
• Structure your presentation in a way that flows, is easy to understand, and gets your message across.
• Organize your presentation and all of your materials ahead of time,
• Plan know when and where you'll be speaking, for how long, and what you are responsible for. and Construct

- When writing the speech keep in mind speech structure:

1. opening
2. body
3. closure

- Include an introduction, main points, transitions, and conclusion:

• – Summarize the main points of your speech
• – Provide some further food for thought for your listeners
• – Leave your audience with positive memories of your speech
• – End with a final thought/emotion 

Homework

Looking Ahead

Practice

• Practice, practice, practice (three times, don’t memorize, speak from the heart)
• Speak in front of others
• Records yourself, listen, and critique
• Repetition - repeat again until you feel confident

Engage with Audience

• Communicate appropriately and clearly, enunciate
• Intrigue your audience
• Use visual aid if necessary
• Look at audience’s body language
• Think positive, smile, and think about your tone and body language

Keep in mind the occasion, theme, and people of the presentation:

• Public speaking occasion - What will you be speaking for? Why are you speaking? 
• The speech theme - What is the topic/subject of the occasion and your speech? How you will present the speech to the audience? Does your speech match the theme?
• The people - Who is your audience? Who are you speaking for? Is the audience supporters of your speech, or are they against your speech or the theme or occasion? Will there be hecklers? 

Tuesday September 6th, 2016

Agenda

• Icebreaker
• Daily Activity
• Major Project

Icebreaker 

Short, 15 - 30 minute, activities that get campers ready for our daily activity and major projects. Icebreakers include games like charades, tongue twisters, telephone game, and more.

"Tongue Twisters"

Daily Activity 

"Eliminating fillers"

Before starting, choose your topic and write a list of common fillers that don’t positively add to spoken communication: um, yeah, like, uh. Students must speak for 30 seconds (vary the time if necessary) and not use any fillers. Students should realize how fillers creep into their speech. Each student will give a short speech for 30 seconds. The topic isn’t too important. You can choose one for the entire class or allow students to choose. I often used this on the first day of class and told students to tell me about themselves.

Major Project 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vXNThjfGMcxJGpBhFwkovDgOc-FriRFLuYUMB0NOwDQ/edit

Last week's homework was to focus on our major project. Students should have; decided a presentation style, selected a main topic, and come up with several subtopics.

Today we went over each of the students ideas, provided feedback about our ideas, and began to build a direction for our project. We also reviewed some of the main topics of last week's class.

Students were given paper to make an outline, write out ideas, and make brainstorming charts to begin organizing their project.

Keys to an AWESOME Presentation

1. Organization

• notes
• research
• words

2. Passion and knowledge of your subject

3. Bravery

4. A Plan

Types of Presentations

• informative
• persuasive
• instructional
• arousing
• decision-making

Organizing Our Presentation Subject

1. Main topic - what are you writing about?
2. Subtopic - topics that elaborate on your main topic
3. Supporting Details - details about your subtopic and main topic

Planning our Presentation:

• Research your subject thoroughly and record the data you find your information from.
• Structure your presentation in a way that flows, is easy to understand, and gets your message across.
• Organize your presentation and all of your materials ahead of time,
• Plan know when and where you'll be speaking, for how long, and what you are responsible for. and Construct

When writing the speech keep in mind speech structure:

1. opening
2. body
3. closure

Include an introduction, main points, transitions, and conclusion:

• – Summarize the main points of your speech
• – Provide some further food for thought for your listeners
• – Leave your audience with positive memories of your speech
• – End with a final thought/emotion 

We'll use the Cornell note-taking approach to collect facts on their topic. Students will organize their notes into an outline that includes preparation, choosing main points, choosing supporting information, establishing linking statements, developing an opening, developing a conclusion, and reviewing the presentation.

Homework

Looking Ahead

Practice

• Practice, practice, practice (three times, don’t memorize, speak from the heart)
• Speak in front of others
• Records yourself, listen, and critique
• Repetition - repeat again until you feel confident

Engage with Audience

• Communicate appropriately and clearly, enunciate
• Intrigue your audience
• Use visual aid if necessary
• Look at audience’s body language
• Think positive, smile, and think about your tone and body language

Keep in mind the occasion, theme, and people of the presentation:

• Public speaking occasion - What will you be speaking for? Why are you speaking? 
• The speech theme - What is the topic/subject of the occasion and your speech? How you will present the speech to the audience? Does your speech match the theme?
• The people - Who is your audience? Who are you speaking for? Is the audience supporters of your speech, or are they against your speech or the theme or occasion? Will there be hecklers? 

Tuesday August 30th, 2016

Agenda

• Intro
• Icebreaker
• Major Project

Icebreaker

Short, 15 - 30 minute, activities that get campers ready for our daily activity and major projects. Icebreakers include games like charades, tongue twisters, telephone game, and more.

Charades!
Students play a few rounds of charades to encourage organized thoughts and actions, as well as speaking skills.

Daily Activity 

Focus on communicating clearly, organizing and structure, intriguing our audience, planning for the unpredictable, and thinking positively while coping with nerves. Some activities are team oriented, and others are for individual work. Speaking goals campers achieve with the daily activities are; eliminating fillers, focusing on one goal, self confidence, organization, composition, and self expression.

As it was our first day in class, we discussed how the daily activity will fit with our major project and what benefits students will get out of the activities.

Major Project 

Solo project that campers will work on during the last half of camp each day, with the goal of presenting in front of an audience at our Camp Speech Conference. We'll present our major projects in class on December 6th at 430pm, and will celebrate the end of the semester with ice cream floats! Each presentation will be 7 minutes in length.

Today we discussed:

Keys to an AWESOME Presentation

1. Organization

• notes
• research
• words

2. Passion and knowledge of your subject

3. Bravery

4. A Plan

Hit or Miss - These items may help or sink your presentation!

• Jokes
• Outfits

Types of Presentations

• informative - gives your audience a lot of information about your main topic
• persuasive - persuades your audience to think/feel a certain way about your subject
• instructional - gives step by step instructions for your audeince to execute
• arousing - envokes a reaction from your audience using emotions, usually fear
• decision-making - provides information to your audience in order to make a decision

Topics - Organizing Our Presentation Subject

1. Main topic - what are you writing about?
2. Subtopic - topics that elaborate on your main topic
3. Supporting Details - details about your subtopic and main topic

Our Plan - Here is how we will create our awesome presentations

• Research
• Structure
• Organize
• Materials
• Plan and Construct

Homework

Students are to decide their main topic, subtopics, and the type of presentation. Students must be ready to discuss their selections in next week's class.

Looking Ahead

Next week we'll look at:

Practice

• Practice, practice, practice (three times, don’t memorize, speak from the heart)
• Speak in front of others
• Records yourself, listen, and critique
• Repetition - repeat again until you feel confident

Engage with Audience

• Communicate appropriately and clearly, enunciate
• Intrigue your audience
• Use visual aid if necessary
• Look at audience’s body language
• Think positive, smile, and think about your tone and body language