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Fueling Your Passion Speech


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Aloha Kakou!

The next tasks for passion speech writing:

Students review their mind maps
Focus on three main details
Update information to first draft

After reviewing students' first drafts. . . we were reminded students were returning from seven months of distance learning and writing skills were at an all time low across campus.

This added task allowed students to apply more information to each detail on each slide. Students could focus on key points for a better flow of the script.
Please click to see student example:

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