wiki 5  - 20/20 - good post. - You're right, he's a podium gripper. But he did get the message out. Good call!

This week in chapel we got to experience a new approach to public speaking.  The speaker spoke his sermons to a more aged audience being the grandparents which changed a few aspects of the norm.  Today Mr. schleman gave a speech on character.  His stance was proper and bup right but it seemed that he did not like to move at all he was more like a tree speaker.  his tone was loud enough to understand but it was mono tone and in my opinon not the best tone to give to older people who could fall asleep.  The message and content of his speech was great he made very good points about why reading the bible will build good character which i agree with.  He did make a few gestures but if i wasn't critiquing him on his speech i would not of noticed them because they were very settle.  I would classify Mr. S as a podium gripper because he did not like to move around just wanted to stay in his comfort box.  Overall he could use a few public speaking techniques but the delivery and content of his message got across to everyone which is really the only part that matters.

 

wiki 4 - 18/20 (not quite 200 words.) - what about the video and the audience participation? Any ideas on that ?

10/30:Today Mr. Flandermier led chapel.  He doesnt seem like he really likes public speaking very much and he is not an enthusiastic speaker.  I noticed how he does not like to use gestures very much and he likes to keep inside his bubble aka the podium.  His eye contact is good tho because it is direct and it seems like he is speaking to you directly.  His voice control is a little shaky and some points and can be hard to understand exspecilly thoses s's.  I felt that i was being read to so im not sure if mr. F prepared the night before for his speech he might have just wrote it out.  Overall it was a decent speech not the best but it did get the message across if you were listining.

 

wiki 3 - 20/20 - good post... Mr.K. did a good job!

This week in chapel mr. kulman and the foot ball players led chapel.  Kulman is a very confident public speaker and can keep his calm in any situation it seems like.  His delivery and voice control is smooth and consistent during all parts of his speech.  His use of useing the entire gym floor to walk around and focus on all people in the chapel was good.  His speech content made alot of sense and he had really good points.  Sometimes he would look to the powerpoint and read off of it instead of speaking to his audience but overall it was a very well speech.  The football players were incorporated into kulmans message well and held some intrest in the audience smashing tiles.

 

wiki 2 - 20/20 - good points made. I am find it interesting that his movement, which bothers some people, is the same thing that others finds keeps them interested in him the entire time he's speaking! Good job

Wiki week two

Mr. Stec gave a very wild chapel today in terms of public speaking.  He did many things very well but he also made some mistakes.  His first problem was he did not accept the un expected.  He did not come prepared for technical difficulties but he had his speech practiced so he could still deliver the message but with no visual aid. The other problem with mr. stec's speech was that he could not stand still which greatly distracts the listener.  His positives were numerous which led to the overall outcome of a great speech.  His eye contact was good, he made sure to not focus his attention to one side of the gym.  His gestures were good because they delivered his points and tuned in the listener.  Even with difficulties with papers and his powerpoint, mr. stec has the abbility to keep talking to the listener while he fixes his problems which strays away from awkward pauses.  All words and stories were understandable and the point of his message was clearly heard.

 

wiki 1 20/20 - great response work!

PUBLIC  SPEAKING

WIki week one - 10/9/09

This week pastor clausing led chapel with a wonderful speech.  He did many things well that a good speech person would do.  His hands did not distract the listener.  They were at his sides staying clam but when he was makeing a point they were right there to capture the moment.  his eyes light up when he was gettting on to something important which told the listener to tune their senses.  His voice was clear and bold at all times.  His pausing was even after each point he made.  There was nothing about his speech that i felt was distracting or not neccisary.  Some chapel speakers distract there listeners with large crosses on there chests or they talk to us like its some kind of pep rally.  These tactiks are not what leads to a good public speaker.

 

It’s Good To Be Home

 There it was, like a light at the end of a tunnel.  I felt like I just broke the tape for

a world marathon, and a feeling of relief coated my entire body.  The only thought that

crossed my mind as I approached the bay harbor was that I was safe.  Safe from

everything, safe from the worst nightmare I had ever encountered in my life…

 So there I was, just a typical working class man trying to make a living.  It was a

Friday night and I was just putting the finishing touches on my boat before I docked it up

for the weekend.  As I was leaving the bay, my buddy Tim called me on the phone telling

me he “knows where to score big”.  Now in the mind of fisherman, scoring big can mean

the difference between buying a house, and not being able to pay rent on your apartment. 

Tim tells me that three miles out on the coast, there have been reports of a massive dark

spot reported to be breeding tuna.  He goes on to say that by morning the spot would be

discovered and “fished up,” so the only option was to leave now.  

 Tim meets me at the harbor, and we begin to load gear on the boat.  With

butterflies in my stomach from the idea of scoring a jackpot of fish, we set sail into the

night.  Two hours of boating later, and countless checks to the fish finder, we arrive at

our destination.

 I bait my hook, cast it far, and feel a tug.  As I’m reeling the fish in I notice that

Tim has also got one on the line.  Perfect, just what Tim said, fish everywhere biting at

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anything we throw out on a line.  As the night progresses we catch a full boat of fish and

decide to drop anchor and call it a night.

 As I lay in my bed thinking about the pay off of a full boat of commercial fish, I

was startled by a huge crash.  The sounds of lightning and thunder had wakened me, and

I knew something terribly wrong was about to happen.  The waves were getting large, too

large for my little fishing boat to handle.  Tim and I rushed inside to put on life jackets

and seek shelter, but it was beginning to be too late.  The storm was rumbling, and the

boat was swaying, until it happened.  A large wave engulfed my boat and that was it, I

was toast.

 When I awoke, I was in a daze I had no idea where I was, and what had happened. 

The Sun was shining, the sea was calm, and I was washed up on a deserted island.  I

figured I had blacked out from last night’s storm, but where was Tim and my boat?  It

was impossible to recall anything that happened after that wave, because I blacked out. 

After wandering the beach and finding washed up pieces of my boat, I came to the

conclusion that Tim was gone, and I was stuck.

 Being trapped on an island is nothing how the movies perceive it to be.  I’ve felt

lonely before, but nothing can compare to being completely isolated without food and

shelter, and without communication to the world around you.  Although I had lost my

whole world and my best friend, there was no time to reflect on the past.  I had one job

and that was to survive and escape the island.

 I started first by making a shelter.  A few branches and large leaves did the trick,

and I was on to my next task, food.  I am no survivor man so eating wild berries,

mushrooms, and bugs was not on my menu.  Since I was a fisherman I got right on

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building a pole.  I found some thin vine and attached it to a long stick.  I then found a

sharp thorn that could be used as a hook to tie to the end of the vine.  The last step was

collecting bait, so I went digging for worms, and came back to camp with a couple dozen.

 I noticed as I walked the beach looking for a nice drop off for fishing, that the

island was huge.  It was completely surrounded with beach, and the rest was covered in

tropical forest.  Now it was about midday when I came to a cove perfect for fishing.  I

stopped, bated my pole, and threw in the line.  Island fishing was nothing like the great

catch I had on the previous day, but I got a few nibbles that eventually turned into fish on

my line.  After catching a few fish I threw my pole in for the last time.  After a couple

seconds I felt a tug so I instinctively pulled back, but it was stuck.  My line had caught a

rock, and it was snagged.  As I stared down into the water to see what was the problem,

something shinny caught my eye and I was instantly curious to see what it was.

 The water was cold, but the shine of this object was too great to keep me from

making the dive in.  I counted to three, took a deep breath and plunged down twenty or so

feet to meet the object.  I stuck out my hand, grabbed the object, and pushed off the

bottom to ascend to the surface.  There was no way!  I was holding on to a solid gold

ring.  My luck had been non-stop change this entire journey, but now I felt like it had

stopped on a jackpot, and it was destiny for me to come back successful.  I took another

dive to the treasure spot, and hauled an entire bag filled with silver, gold, and gems to the

surface.  I came back to my camp with one hand carrying dinner, and the other holding

enough riches to last a lifetime.  I went to bed satisfied.  Although my friend had been

killed, my boat had been wrecked, and I was stranded, I still had hope that one day I

would return home a richer man, and live past these tragedies.

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 That morning I woke up, caught some fish for breakfast, and began thinking how

I could get off of this island and get back home.  I began by building a large fire because

maybe the large amount of smoke would bring attention to the island, and I would be

rescued.  It took about three hours, as I sat in my shelter waiting, for someone to be

spotted.  In the horizon a fishing boat similar to mine was slowly approaching.  I wanted

to run out and flag it down but there was something about this boat that kept me still.  As

it got closer to shore I could tell that its course was not in my direction, however it was

heading straight towards the fishing cove.  I ran up the forest line creeping behind trees to

get a better look.  

 I came up on the fishing cove and noticed two divers jumping out of their docked

fishing boat, diving right in the vicinity of the treasure.  Before they had a chance to

surface, I sprinted all the way back to camp, put out my fire, destroyed my shelter, and

ran back in the forest, treasure in hand.  As I was laying low staying quiet I could hear the

voices of the other two men, and they sounded furious.  At that moment I knew a game of

cat and mouse had begun, and I was the measly mouse with their treasure.  

 Now I could have just dropped the treasure and ran to the opposite side of the

island, but then I would still be stranded and out a bag of riches.  As the voices stated

getting louder and heading my direction, I ducked down behind a bush and devised my

plan.  I was going to make a run for their boat while they were out looking for their loot.

 I slowly started trekking in the forest towards the direction of the fish cove. 

Although their boat was an easy swimming distance I would still have to pull anchor

before I could go anywhere.  The two divers were investigating the island when they

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came upon my campground.  They looked angry.  Not like a mom yelling at her kids

angry, but as if they were ready to seek and destroy angry.

 I started counting to five.  If I were going to make it out of here alive it would

have to be soon because the divers were on their way back to their boat.  Five hit and I

dashed like never before hauling myself into the ocean and stroking for their boat.  Left

hand, right hand freestyle strokes one after the other.  I had a feeling that they now saw

my presence and were running up the beach back to their boat.  That thought in my head

made me swim faster until, oh shoot!  I just dropped the treasure and had a quick decision

to make, either get the treasure and risk my life or just go for the boat and live to tell the

tale.  Seeing how it was life or death, I forgot all about the treasure and began pulling

myself up on the boat.

 I began hauling the anchor up by hand and could see that the divers had just made

it in the water and were swimming right for their boat.  With a last pull the anchor was on

board and I threw up the sails and started inching towards the horizon.  For a second it

seemed that the divers were here and that they had made it to the boat and I was doomed,

but a burst of wind hit and the boat was off.  Everything got quiet as my adrenalin calmed

and I set course for the nearest harbor.  I knew that when I got back I had a lot of

explaining to do and I couldn’t forget about the stranded divers back at the deserted

island.  No matter what my problem was at that moment, the nightmare was over and my

only thought was, its good to be heading home.

 

 

 

 

Wiki week 1 - 

2. Does defending someone to someone else only "matter" or "count" if the person you defend appreciates it or knows you did it?

Yes, i believe that statement to be true because proving things to yourself are not as important as proving things to people because if you are your own judge in the matter then you will get no satisfactory for your actions. In some cases it is a bad idea to defend people because the person being ragged on might feel like a punk if they dont defend themselves and others might think they are a punk because they had someone else do a task for them. The best sinareo for this question would be if one person was talking down on someone and they didnt know about it, you should tell that perosn to say it to the others face so the one being made fun of can rip his head off.

 

1. Finally, I am curious why you think he entitled it "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky"...and speaking of the Bride.. if she's important enough to be part of the title, why doesn't Crane even bother to tell us her name? Why do you think he chose to do that?!

The author of the short story entitled it "The Bride Comes To Yellow Stone" because the bride is new to yellow stone. All the other charicters in the story are from there and live there so the story is called "The Bride Comes to yellow stone" because the bride is an outsider to the community. Crane doesnt bother to tell us the Brides name because she is just a mail orderbride that doesnt have any good qualities to even be that important in the sotry. Crane does things with a purpose and the purpose of not useing her name draws more attention to her husband and the conflict he encounters.

Mike - I moved your ideas up OUT of the comments box and onto your page... see me about how to do this correctly next week! OK?

 

wiki week 2

Your thoughts? Is it right or wrong for Mike to do what he does to (for?) his grandma?

In my opinon i think it was right for him to do what he did because he freed his grandmas mind of a long lost grief.  What was wrong was the mother leaving her child with a senial grandparent in a crazy house.  If mike would not have gone along with being his grandmas husband then she would probly freak out and think he was an imposter and yell for security.  Mike helped his grandma release a burden off of her before she died and thats a great thing to do.  Many people regret their last words to someone thinking that there will be another time to see them but then they die and now that person has to live with it for the rest of their life.

 

To bring this story into a more modern context... today, guys and girls will often accept disrespectful or even abusive treatment from someone they're dating, just to keep the relationship. Does this story offer an insights into WHY teens do this and what they SHOULD do instead?

Teens that do this are stupid first of all.  The main reason why anyone would stick in a relationship that is abusive is because that person feels like the person they are going out with is popular or just plain hot, so they put up with their crap because they cant do better and they want to feel good about themselves.  Teens should find a person they feel comfortible hanging round with so that the relationship is equal because if its not then it doesnt work unless one person can puts up with it and the other dominates.

Good work on wiki 2! While rather blunt, I think you call it like you see it... and I respect that.

 

Wiki Week Tres (3)

In class we recieved a paper listing  of the top 100 books that have been bannded by public librarys around the country.  Although i had read some of thease books, i could not belive my eyes when i saw harry potter and james and the gaiant peach.  Many of thease books were my childhood favrites and i was offended that someone would go to the extreme to get rid of thease books in society.  Sounds like to me a crazy parent of a sheltered child was involved.  Anyways it was very intresting and opened my eyes to psyco people just hatein and psyco authors that should find a new topics to write about.

 

In class we also had  a disscussion about the fall of the house of usher 1 and 2.  We talked alot about edgar allen poe and how he uses discriptive and advanced words to describe scene, people, and atmosphere.  His writeing tone in the fall of usher is very erie and creepy.  I feel that reading his works of fiction are sometimes difficult to comprehend because his mind is probly always doped up so its very hard to understand what he is feeling and thinking.  His lyestyle reflects his tone and attitude in his writing.  I hope we never have to read him again because its a waste because i have absolutly no idea whats going on the entire story.

Great job on wiki 3! I promise not to assign you anymore POE! :-) so relax and enjoy the rest!

 

Wiki week four

response to speech.

My response to obamas speech was that it was very well said and showed his skills as president in speech.  I think his views on education are pointed in the right direction and his efforts could make an impact on kids across the country.  Although it seems that everything said was nice and dandy,  some people were still outraged and did not want there children to see the speech.  I am supportive of those people because its not the content of his speech that the poeple were worryed about it was politics that went with it and the fact that he is useing children to pass his influence and bills amungst the ppl.  Obama to me is a bad president i dont like him i think hes sneaky and i think bad things are happening behind the scences.  Obama's helthcare plan proves his socialist values.

 

 

This week we got our first big grade in for the quarter. I did preaty well on my esay so now im releaved that i dont have to write another one. I wrote mine on the first topic. it did not take very long and the concepts were simple so it was easy to write. Short stories are going to be easy to write because you make up whats in them. I hope i get a good grade on that too to keep the A.

 

Wiki Week FIVE

 

For monday we read The New Kid.  This story showed a very prominent problem in society today.  In class i finally learned what a pecking order was and how it is applied to society.  The kid in the story was being picked on by the better baseball players.  By the end of the story he ended up picking on the new kid who was even worse at baseball than he was which shows this pecking order.  If i were in his shoes i would have fought back with the better baseball players and not given the new kid a whoopin for being a yellowbelly but i would say i would'nt be hanging out with the new kid anymore after seeing his personality.

wiki 5 - so you sort of are taking the same side as Marty.. in a way. Is that what you're saying. 

Langsten Hughes writeing style could be said as poetic because every detail is expanded and you can picture exactly what is happening in the story just the way it is written.  His irony in the story is a little odd because he writes on a subject of racial discrimination in which he had to go through himself.  The irony in the story was he had a black charicter be a victim of racial discrimination but instead of showing hate and outburst the charicter calmly takes it and stands strong.  Langston hughs is very intelligent and humble through his writings which should label him as a profound writer of his time.

wiki 5 - Great job on your posts both this week and last. You have a lot of interesting ideas and I enjoy hearing them.