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Passion Speech Pre-Work

 

The importance of Passion

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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