Sunday, October 26, 2008

Oral Communications - October 27 - 31

Students in my classes, remember if you want to see the Halloween drama performances, you must purchase a ticket. All of my classes will be attending on the 31st with the exception of 4th hr. There will be no performances during 4th hr. because of lunch. Price of admission is .99 cents. You may donate the penny to the drama department to make it an even $1.00.
We are going to be getting ready to go to the library a few days next week to gather information for our informative speeches due the second week in November. Be thinking of a topic that you would like to give us information about. Remember, do not cross over into the realm of persuasive speaking and try to convince us to support something or somebody, or to change our views on some issue or to make some type of change--you'll have to save any persuasive ideas for later when we do our student congressional bills.
You will also be required to submit an outline with your persuasive speech.

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Oral Communications - October 20 - 24

Busy week this week. We will complete our intrapersonal (color) speeches Monday, do a few exercises with perception and self-concept, design a logo, review for your test on Chapter 5, Intrapersonal Communication, and have the test on Friday. If you did nothing but study the
Knowledge Map you were given, you should get a 100% on the test.
I will be out on Wednesday, October 22, but back Thursday to help you review for Friday's test. I know Friday is homecoming, but the test is only 20 multiple choice questions and should not take long or be too much of a strain on you.
Hope everyone enjoys their three day weekend. I know I will.

Sunday, October 12, 2008

Oral Communications October 13 - 16

Friday the 17th is a holiday for students and most teachers. The following Monday and Tuesday (October 20 and 21) will be Parent Teacher Conferences.
Monday, students will compose one minute speeches to present Tuesday. Handouts will be
given to help outline these short speeches. Presentation will be worth approximately 30 pts., 20 pts. on content, and 10 pts. on delivery. We should finish up on Wednesday and continue
learning about intrapersonal communication on Thursday and have a test the following week on
intrapersonal communication.

Sunday, October 5, 2008

Oral Communications - October 6 -10

Reminders: The end of the 1st quarter is October 13--No school on October 17.
We will spend a little time this week discussing faulty reasoning, (we may have a quiz Tuesday (7th) on the faulty reasoning terms from the handouts I gave you on Chapter 4 Vocabulary. We will then move on to intrapersonal communication and shortly afterward interpersonal communication. Intrapersonal communication is a term for communicating with ourselves. It is helpful to give some thought to why we have the communication styles that we have. All that we think, do and say is centered in our own experiences, past and present. If we can open up our minds enough to comprehend that everyone else has different experiences, then we can begin to communicate in ways that are more tolerant of those differences--but we must look critically at ourselves first.