wiki 5 20/20 - great post. you noticed some interesting things!

Wiki 5

Last monday i saw a pastor from zion come to preach to us, but ather then to do the normal sit behind the podium and just lecture us on what we should and should not do, he had some of our peers from LHS help him do the chappel and make the point that gods love can not be taught to us by means of techknowlegy. the pastor realized that we as kids, might get bored of the everyday sermon, so i thought it was cool how he thought about us and decided to do someting different that would help us get the better feeling of how Jesus taght. I think that it is important to realize your audience, and try to connect with hem so you are not just boring them to death, this way they will actually listen to what you have to say and it will be easier for you to get your message drivin into their heads. Pastor clausing did the same thing on wednesday when he had the grandparents present, he picked a seromon that would apply to them, and really made it clear of his points by his gestures and such. In my last speech tomrorow i am going to try and use my prompt to my advantage and connect it with my friends listening, and yesss i will try to keep my hands not anchored to the podium hah

wiki 4 - 20/20 -Oh! I am glad you watched this.... and I am glad you've noticed the HUGE difference between speaking and "reading to" people! You do a great job... you need to learn to "let go" of the top of the podium... and just talk and use your hands... it will get even easier.

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I researched a public speech made by John F. Kennedy on the fact the we are choosing to go to the moon. He starts off his speech a little shaky. I noticed that in the beginning of his speech he was not making very many, if not any, gestures with his body and also the tone of his voice was not to convincing, as the way he said things, made it sound like he was not sure of himself or confident. As his public speech on our moon travels continued, he began to become more comfortable up on the podium. He would make noticeable hand and body gestures when he was trying to make a point. He would also speak louder when he was making points, so it was obvious to see that as the more time passed, the more comfortable he became and was able to actually speak about the way e felt towards this topic, and you could tell in the way he presented. he also used a script i noticed, as he would keep looking down. But this script didn't affect him from not having enough eye contact, he also did not just plainly read his speech to the audience, i have noticed a bunch of people in my class who do that, and it is very boring to listen to. 

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wiki 3 - 10/23  - 20/20 -  good posting. You made many good observations. He did do a pretty good job.

Wiki 3

Today in chapel, Vicar Mizel was the preacher. From what i saw he was a very solid Speaker. He did it all by memorization and was able to get our attention and keep us entertained. He connected an event from the bible, to a story that happened to him in real life, and this helped me listen to his story, then to his connection he made with it. I understood the meaning of the story of Jesus Walking on Water more clearly and the message that was suppose to be meant. Because he did it by memorization, he was able to walk around the hole gym and talking to all of us in there. This is just more proof to me that doing it by memorization would be the most affective way to approach an audience, because his eye contact was all over and he had many different uses with his hands as he made gestures to make points. So i am thinking i will try to use memorization for at least one of my speeches, and see how well it compares with the other ones which i will most likely just have a dialogue. and the more advanced i get, it will just be easier to do the memorization, is what im thinkning

wiki 2 - 10/16  - 20/20 good entry! Lots of solid observations!

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Today in chapel Mr. Stec was our leader. His power point was not working so he had to do the hole thing by memory. I noticed, because he used his memory, that he had a lot of eye contact and interacting with the students. He used his hands a hole lot. I noticed that he was walking all around the floor so that he could include everyone in the message. He normally records the passage readings, but this time he had to read it in live, in front of us. I saw him and thought that it would be easier to do it with a script in front of you, but seeing how Mr. Stec communicated with us, made me think of how affective the memory approach would be. This would take much more effort, and obviously even with out his slide show Mr. Stec planned out what he was going to say so that made it easier for him to do it by memory. Mr. Stec has been doing public speaking for a long time, so he has the experience. For my first speeches i think i am either going to do it by dialogue or type out a script for myself to make it easier. Then when i get more advanced i can move to memory.

wiki 1 - 20/20 - good response!

Public Speaking wiki 1 - 10.9.09

I attended chapel on Monday and witnessed a guest chapel preacher. I do not remember his name but he stood out to me in his public speaking. He was an older man who seemed very comfortable talking to us students, but he was not a little bit hard to understand. I noticed that he paced around alot, this was probablly because it was such an unusual shaped audience he was not sure how to handle it. Once he got use to it though i think he settled down and it became more clear to understand him. at first he was kind of mummbleing a little, but throughout the message, he got more and more comfortable. I had a hard time getting comfortable like this during my speech today in class, i just kept thinking, the more i get into speech the less i would shake, and not studder and be more clear. but this point in my speech never came. so im just saying it must have been hard for that man to get up in front of everyone that he has never seen before in a new environment to preach to all of us. i think he picked up his flaws and as he settled down, he fixed them and ended up connecting with the audienece very well. This shows well adjusting and how to fix your mistakes during your speech, i will just take a deep breath when i notice i am doing something wrong, and hopefully think about it and know how to correct it.

John Dattilo Dattilo 1

Mrs. Staude

English Symposium

September 21, 2009

The Fountain

“So do we have everything Jack?” Andrew asked.

I did a check in my mind; bait, poles, net, cell phone. “Yeah I’m pretty sure we do. I’m going to go get my mom and see if she’s ready.” So I went to get her to take us to the pond, finally we were going fishing.

“Mom,” I called.

“I’m coming, I’m coming,” She said.

She always seems rather annoyed when my friend Jack and I need a ride to the small neighborhood pond. I think the main reason was because we would always ask on short notice, expecting her to drop everything and take us. She did most of the time, but never without a little complaint.

“She’s coming,” I told Andrew.

“Well, let’s load up while we’re waiting,” he suggested. So we loaded the truck up, and off we went. It’s probably about a five minute drive.

“Make sure you have everything,” my mother shouted. We were already in our own world and started walking to the end of the water.

“The cell phone!” mother shouted.

This was our life line back to home. We needed a phone to call my mom when we were ready to come home. So I rushed over to the window and grabbed it.

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“Thanks a lot!” I said, as I put it in my pocket.

“Don’t forget to call me when you are ready to come home,” she said.

“ I will call when we are ready”

I noticed an old man lurking in his garage eyeing us down. I didn’t pay much attention to him though, I was in the zone, I was in the fishing zone!

She drove away, then it all began. We were catching fish after fish. I remember one in particular. This was the big catfish that Andrew and I call Jehovah.

“Get the net! Get the net!” I yelled to Andrew. The fight was on. He tugged and pulled for a good 15 minutes, when he came to the surface and we saw the goliath monster. It had to weigh at least 30 pounds!

“Bring him closer to me!” Andrew shouted. He was standing on the bank waiting with a net to help bring him ashore. I kept scooting back until finally, we had done it. This fish had outplayed us before, but today we won the battle.

After we had admired this fish we thought we would never catch I told Andrew, “Well I guess we should let him go now.”

“Maybe we will see ya again Jehovah,” Andrew said as we watched him swim away.

Only about ten minutes had passed when I noticed the old guy.

“Look!” I said. I saw the catfish floating about six feet from shore along side a dry metal fountain.

“We have to do something,” Andrew told me.

We had noticed a small walkway of rocks to the fountain. We made our way,

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hoping the rocks wouldn’t tumble into the pond sending us along tumbling with them.

We both had made it to the fountain. I was able to use the piping around the fountain to find a footing.

“I don’t know if the fountain will hold both of us,” Andrew said.

“Just hurry and hop on before those rocks tumble in and I am stranded in the middle of the pond on this fountain.” He leaped for the piping on the fountain, when Andrew jumped the path of rocks that had lead us out here toppled over and sunk down to the bottom of the pond never to be seen again.

“Well that is just great,” I said.

“I’m sure we can find away back to shore and still keep dry,” Andrew told me. We were thinking about this dilemma for about ten minutes, just talking it over.

Andrew then reminded me why we had got out here in the first place, he asked where Jehovah was. We both looked around, but he was no where to be found.

“What was that noise?” I asked Andrew. Then all of the sudden the fountain turned on, soaking us as we jumped into the water and waded our way to shore. Andrew and I had a good laugh about it as we stood there dripping wet on the bank of the pond. I suddenly stopped laughing.

“Oh no,” I gasped.

“What? What’s wrong?” Andrew asked

I looked down at my pocket, and my stomach dropped as I noticed I was wet up past my waste.

“My moms cell pone is done for,” I told Andrew.

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“Oh my God. I completely forgot you still had it with you in your pocket.”

“Well I do, and it is toast along with me. Now it looks like we are going to have to walk home since I can’t call her to come and get us. We better just start walking home now. It will probably take a good 30 minutes to get there,” I said.

“Alright lets get the stuff packed up and head home.” Andrew suggested.

As we had it all packed up together I was ready to make the long walk. We started walking back home, when I looked and noticed the same old man in his garage still. He now had a smile on his face as he walked to the back of the garage, then all of a sudden the fountain turned off again. Andrew and I believe that the old guy had a switch for the fountain, but we didn’t know for sure. Either way, we had a long walk ahead of us.

wiki 5 - Great job.... I love the honesty of your posts.

Week 5-

1. After reading "One Friday Morning" I was pretty annoyed with the way the story ended. I was hoping for a happy ending and her dreams fulfilled and she gets the scholarship. It was very mature of her to act the way she did and I was impressed, but I know that i wouldnt have acted that way. I would have protested and incisted i get the money, because from her describing her project it sounded like she worked long and hard on it. knowing she would still fulfill her dreams and go to college I didnt feel as bad, and seeing the way she acted made me realize that if she can be mature in such manner, then we all should be able to. 

2. I thought "From Mother.... With Love" was a good short story with a sad story, but a happy end. I did not think this story was to strong for me, but i can see how others might think this, because of past expirience or whatever. I thought that the dad was right in asking Minta to stay home. He was going through just as hard, if not harder, time then his daughter and with her leaving he would feel especially lonely. I think that the ending is a good one for Minta, she eventually comes around from being mopey and cheers up and tries to get her father to follow suit. In my family in this situation i probabally want to do the same as Minta's family, but in general I would not want my family to keep secrets from each other.

Week Four-

1. After reading Antaeus I thought about why TJ decided to take his creation and destroy it himself, which was just more work, and this time for no reward. After thinking about it I realized that he couldn't let anyone else destroy their creation, so he wanted to be at the hands of the creation, and destruction part. TJ obviously couldnt handle living in the city life because of his love for the farm, but i do wish it would have had a happier ending. I did like the story though.I think that all of his new friends started to realize how became who he was after they expierienced their own creation, an understood, but didnt like, why he left.

2. The finish of Patsy Barnes was a pretty powerful story. it is very unlikely for a 14 year old drop out to achieve such succes as Patsy did, especially during this time for an african american. this story, to me, is powerful because it shows the determination and will power of this young man who is able to overcome fight through societys persecution. I was a little confused on why the title was the way it was, but after discussing it in class i like the way the author used it. it was clever because when i first saw it i thought, hmm a 14 year old black boy in the early 1900's, who has slacked off in school, and has no father....it has to have a bad ending. So when i got to the end of the story i was pleased with the way it all came together.

Week Three-

Great job on wiki 3!

1. I just got done reading "There will come soft rains" and tis story was kinda weird i thought. Bradbury did, however, make me feel sympathetic towards the house because it tried and tried and tried to get rid of the fire, but all its efforts were ruined. He let me imagine all of the different things in the house, like the smart little brass mice and the smart kitchen. so i basically thought of this house as a smart house, which does everything for you. I thought it was an interesting way to describe the way the house went down. and it gave the house human characteristics, which was another reason i felt bad for it.

2. I wrote my first Symposium essay yesterday. I wasn't to sure how it would turn out, but in the end i was pretty pleased with how I was able to form it all together. I really like the fact the we had a choice from so many different prompts. I chose to do the sequal one and i wrote it to Charles. I really didnt have any real ending in mind, but as i wrote it I decided more of how i would wrap it all up. So i was pretty proud of the way it all came together.

Week two -

Good work on wiki 2! Isn't it interesting that "Charles" kept your attention, even if just to see if you were right!?

1. My first pst this week is going to be on the story Charles. I liked this sotry because it kept my attention until the end, even thought I saw how it was going it end. I believe that Lauri's mother has a greater problem than Lauri himself, because she was outwitted by a kindergartener. The dad knew the real truth , so it is evident that Lauri wasn't that great of  aliar. I think his mom still had the memory of her little innocent baby in her mind and didn't want to picture himbeing a troublemaker, or maybe she couldn't picture hime as one. Either way. I think it is time for the mother to let that image go and accept the fact that he is going to grow eventually.

2. I think if the sotry would have kept goint on the mother would have come home and had a toalk with both Lauri and the dad. She would talk with the dad beause he knew ihis son was the problme and let his wife go to PTA and get humiliated. I think after she would have punished Lauri for lying to her about Charles, Lauri would have behaved better, because everyday he came  home with no punishment for his actions.

Week One-

2. My first post is below in my comments, i was not sure how to make it come up here sorry. 

I thought that "Enemy Territory" was the best one so far. It had a good story line and setting. I liked how the grandma compared the situations between her husband and Pablo. If i was Pablo i would have wanted my grandma's advice and probablly wouldnt have really understood when she first gave me the broom, but after she would tell me the story I would know what to do and even though i would have been frightened to face all of them on my own, I would have known that i had to do it. This kind of thing still occurs today with all ages. I liked the way that the story concluded. I liked this because i knew that the grandma wouldnt put Pablo in harms way and i was waiting to find out what she had planned.

1. I thought that "The Bride Come to Yellow Sky" was an alright story, but not one of my favorites. this is because of the way that Crane wrote this story. I just kept getting confused as the story line jumped from one scene to the next. I also was not satisfied with the way it ended. I was hoping for a slight battle between Jack and the drunken fool, but as the stroy went on I began to realize thatthis was not going to happen. The end left me wondering, what happens next? I wasnt sure if the wife would stay with Jack or if she would be to freaked out and just leave him right then and there, but the story did keep me entertained and wondering what was going to happen next. This story was a similar style of writing with that of "The Red Badge of Courage." this is because of the way he wrote it and by not giving the wife a name. It was a decent story. John Dattilo.

Good work on wk. 1 - don't worry I moved your first comment up... you could have just copied and pasted it.... but I did that and deleted it from the wrong spot.

enjoyed your thoughts on the stories.