Tuesday May 30th, 2017

Last day of class!!

Agenda

• Icebreaker
• Major Project
• Class Party

Icebreaker 

Student's Choice!

Students selected one last icebreaker from a list of several completed this year in class! 

• Cards
• For or Against
• Charades 
• Word Tools

Major Project

Mock Trial - Day 3: State of Minnesota v. Max Paulson

Trial Day! Students had a few moments to prepare the room, their presentations, and get their witnesses/participants ready for the mock trial. Students presented their cases to the judge and followed the trial procedure worksheet provided in class 2 weeks ago. Once students completed the trial, the judge ruled and court was adjourned for the class party! 

Tuesday May 23rd, 2017

Agenda

• Icebreaker
• Daily Activity
• Major Project

Icebreaker 

Word Tools
Students selected one of four basic tools for effective speaking from a bag at random: simile, metaphor, parallelism, and antithesis. Students also selected a topic from a bag at random. Finally, students had to present a speech (1 minute) which included the speech modality and the topic they selected at random. 

Simile involves comparison. It states that one thing is like or as another thing.
Metaphor invokes identity. It states that one thing is another thing
“Rhiannon”: “She is like a cat in the dark [simile] and then she is the darkness [metaphor].”

Parallelism we create sentences or phrases that begin the same way and end differently, or begin differently and end the same.

Anaphora or Epanaphora - parallel repetition of beginnings. “Come to me if you need advice; come to me if you need help; come to me if you need friendship.”
Antistrophe or Epistrophe - parallel repetition of endings. “If you need advice, come to me; if you need help, come to me; if you need friendship, come to me.”

Antithesis is a contrast of ideas by means of parallel arrangements of words, phrases or clauses, placing two contrasting or opposite ideas near each other.
“It’s nice to be important, but it’s important to be nice.”; “You can take the girl out of the honky tonk, but you can’t take the honky tonk out of the girl.”; “To the world you’re one person, but to one person you’re the world.”

Daily Activity 

Folder Organization and Class Note Review 
Students took class time to organize their folders. Students organized their notes from our class lectures throughout the year. Once organized, students reviewed their notes from our class lecture and discussed what they've learned. 

Major Project

Mock Trial - Day 2: State of Minnesota v. Max Paulson

Students continued working on our mock trial. Students discussed what they accomplished over the last week, what they've learned from their last notes, which other IQuest students they've selected to be a part of their mock trial, and what their plan is to present the trial in our final class next week. 

Tuesday May 16th, 2017

Agenda

• Icebreaker
• Daily Activity
• Major Project

Icebreaker 

Card Deck

Students given a deck of cards to shuffle. After shuffling, the deck was sat at the front of the class. Students took a turn selecting a card at random. Each student had to give a two minute speech on a random topic, depending upon the card they selected. 

• Hearts: A person or persons important in your life.
• Diamonds: Something(s) important in your life.
• Clubs: Groups, organizations, or teams that you belong to or have been a part of.
• Spades: Anything in the world that you’d like to change, either on a personal level (I wish I could play guitar), local level (I wish our College had better parking), regional level (I wish I lived closer to a beach), or international (I wish the war would end).
• Jacks, Queens, Kings, Aces: Speech must speak for 3 minutes without any speech flaws.
• Jokers: Wild Card! Students can save Joker and forfeit their speech to a classmate they choose. 

Major Project

Mock Trial - Day 1: State of Minnesota v. Max Paulson

Students began working on a two day class project focusing on a mock trial. 

Tuesday May 2nd, 2017

Agenda

• Icebreaker
• Daily Activity
• Major Project

Icebreaker 

Take Over!

Students divided into teams, then given a speaking order. The first speaker drew a random topic to speak about aloud in class, for 2 minutes. The other team listened hard to the first speakers presentation for opportunities to take-over the speech. The opposing team listened for the first team to have any deviation, hesitation, and repetition during their presentation in order to challenge. The opposing team called the challenge, then had to explain why they called the challenge. Ms. Adrienne judged each challenge for fairness. Opposing teams judged with fair challenges took over the original speakers spot to continue speaking until the timer ran out. The original speaking team then had an opportunity to challenge the opposing teams speech. Unfair challenges were dismissed and the original team continued their speech until a fair challenge accepted.  Teams that survived the entire 2 minutes earned 10 points, 5 points awarded to the team who was speaking last. 

Daily Activity

Students gathered all last minute items to present their mock science fair project. We used this time to gather supplies, set up mock experiments, and practice our presentation. 

Major Project

Science Project - Final Day

Students spent the remainder of class presenting their mock science projects going over all of the key elements we rehearsed in the previous weeks.