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.