Passion Speech Pre-Work

Blog #5

In preparing for passion speeches, task #3 is followed by another jam board. Students observed passion icons Kid President and Kid Black for a second time. For two minutes, they wrote all visual, verbal/nonverbal cues to be a good speaker. Please click on the link below for the results:

https://jamboard.google.com/d/1vW-DubYq-1mHy5EwvRCKSzpbBYtk63Hmk80m9DZDIs0/edit?usp=sharing

Aloha Kakou, This project entailed not just finding passions in the life of our students, we discovered it built trust, camaraderie, and collaboration, after physically being away from school for seven months. Happy Blogging! Rae Tang

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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

Brainstorming YOUR Passion

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

Raelyn Tang

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