Articulating Your Passion

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Blog #8

Aloha Kakou!

Final steps for passion speech:

Students prepare conclusion

Students will combine all tasks/steps for Final draft

Students discover the conclusion of a speech is just as important as the attention grabber. Once again, students viewed Kid President's and Kid Black's videos for 30 seconds and only at the end of their speeches. Students were able to observe verbal and non verbal cues and apply to their script or not.

For some, this was not an easy task.

Last step, students combine approved slides of attention grabber, 3-details script, and conclusion.

Please click below to view student conclusion and final draft samples:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/12v4oIOEy_MMU0jyYHV0tPSERv8af-iAX962ypA1qZYE/edit?usp=sharing

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1aC777n-GgTh8ZQGDbkWBO8YTCKYr9FOUwkblXnwTOFA/edit?usp=sharing

Ahui hou!

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