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Minding your Passion Speech

 

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Aloha Kakou!

All aboard . . . Students have chosen at least one topic to do their passion speech.  Next step,  to prepare their attention grabber.  Students learned an attention getter is used at the beginning of an essay to grab the reader's attention.  As they learned in Kid President and Kid Black's videos, they could use quotations, statistics, or questions, and stories.  This task wasn't an easy flow as it was difficult for students to decipher, verbal/nonverbal cues into a passion speech.

Please click on the link to view Kid President and Kid Black's samples and a template for students:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1zzjdluVGO3E5kBoSJ1WaPrV4fVQSJFpBgQ4NRvoFKVg/edit?usp=sharing

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