Fueling Your Passion Speech

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Blog #7

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:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18USikSRedpATnJVaibMxmSY6Ygvw1nNhWa5jGgKpfLw/edit?usp=sharing

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Passion Icons

To begin our Passion journey, we brought two infamous icons to share their stories with our students. https://youtu.be/l-gQLqv9f4o

What did we learn in finding a passion among middle schoolers? Many students couldn't distinguish the difference between passion and goal. Some didn't have interests, collections, or talents to talk about. Others didn't include elementary music lessons, foreign language or sports activities. Below if you click on jam boards, you will get a glimpse of our 7th/8th grade passion topics for SY 2020-2021: https://jamboard.google.com/d/1EGHpIXfPb9N6a6NOAODnLakdQAKZFxRTEp5-vhjgyPQ/edit? usp=sharing https://jamboard.google.com/d/1kTct5r36QMqd3j5aqCiX6Z4ygQOkRcmLbeCx_1lxjVo/edit?usp=sharing https://jamboard.google.com/d/14eE57IQy_CsKBdo8l_r9OGZMbUKlYSNzFLDCkG0_FlM/edit?usp=sharing https://jamboard.google.com/d/1lEe9N7xad09dQInotoIIVM8_4hWRzT_xJYajPPBm28k/edit?usp=sharing

Minding your Passion Speech

Blog #6 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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