wiki 5 - 0/20 no post for 11/6

wiki 4 - 0/20 - no posting this week of Oct. 30

wiki 3 - 10/23  - 0/20 - no posting

wiki 2 - 10/16  - 20/20 good observations

wiki 2

10/16/09- I really like coach Kuhlman's chaple on thursday the 15th. During his time speaking in chaple he did a good job of eye contact, he looked steadely around the room very often. I also liked his delivery and how he asked the crowd questions to start off his message. Also during coach Kuhlman's message he seemed to walk around than  most people, as he walked around it drew more attention to him. He used other people to demonstrate his point. He also did a good job of using props like when he had a student hold up the cross that was made out of the broken tiles. He spoke very clearly and loudly for people to hear and understand him. He had students read some of the prayers and other slides to take some of the pressure off of him. And lastly he sounded very confident and seemed as if he was well prepared. He had probably practiced a few times.

PUBLIC SPEAKING - 10.9.09 - wiki 1 - 0/20 - NO POST!

week5

9/17/09-

               I started working on my short story this week and i am excited to finally get it out of the way. But i am also excited to finish the story. I like writing short stories, especially when their fiction because i can make up whatever i want and turn it into a story of my own. I really enjoy writing in first person because i get to put the stories in my point of view and i get to change what a person thinks or feels about something into anything that I feel is needed.

week5

9/18/09- This week we were to read From Mother... With Love, and i didn't really like the story because it was a bit depressing. This story also seemed to drag on and on. But today in class our discussion on the story was pretty interesting because we talked about the same conflict just in many different situations. I enjoy when we get to talk about real life stories that connect to the stories we read.  

wiki 5 - good responses.. I am looking forward to your story! Glad it's going well.

week4

9/11/09-

     This weeks stories were pretty interesting as always. I really am enjoying the class and the easy atomsphere that comes along with it. I liked the Patsy Barnes story it was interesting to see him do what his father had done and been killed doing. It was very nice of him to do that for his mom too. And the story with Karl was also interesting and I liked how we got to decided where he was going to be adopted to.

9/11/09-

I am going to go "out on a big Limb" here and also invite you to comment on the reading of the Speech to America's Students that I presented in class on 9/8/09. I hope it was evident that I was trying to tie it to our new theme on "pre-judging" things and/or people plus it fit rather nicely with our discussion the other day about censorship. I will be interested to hear what you have to say on the topic as we really didn't allow a lot of in class discussion time. I hope everyone will feel welcome to express their views on the wiki if you so choose.

     I don't understand what the big deal is with this speech and why so many people are flipping out about it. If you don't want you kid hearing hten don't send them to school or ask them to be taken out of that class. Other kids whose parents do want them to hear shouldn't have to be told they couldn't just because someone else's parent doesn't wany them to hear it! I think it was a good speech and everyone should have heard it.

No week three postings.... disappointing,... 0/20

Finally what do you envision the "next scene" after the story ends being like? Does the mom go home and punish her kid? Does she pretend she doesn't know that her son is a little monster? Does she tell her husband what happened or act like nothing happened... after all, he's sitting there smugly at home! What would you do if you were the parent of a

kid like this???

Week2

  Good start...the second entry is a quite a bit short of 100 words. If the question doesn't inspire you to write... then find a different one that does! 15/20

8/28/09-

               I picture the next scene of Charles to be that the mother and son will arrive at home to the father with a smirk on his face. The mother just nodded her head in a shocking manor. The mother and father then argue about how they shall punish their son, weather it be that they ground him or spank him. They finally ask him why he was pretending to be another student this entire time and why he would lie about another student with bad behavior when it was acctually him.

Week2

8/26/09-

                This weeks stories that were assigned were pretty interesting. First was The Moustache which seemed pretty awkward for the main character Mike because when he went to visit his grandmother in the nursing home she recognized him, not as her grandson but as her husband.  

Week1

8/21/09-

               To: Mrs. Staude, this week i really enjoyed the interview with the characters activity in class. The reason i enjoyed it was because it gave the class a chance to see how the students thought the main characters would be like on a regular basis. Not only was it extra credit but it was also fun. Another i enjoyed in class this was about three days in a row we had over ten extra minutes to read the short stories that we were assigned. Also the disscutions we have in class are interesting and i can relate to them being a young adult and comparing my life to these interesting short stories.

Week1 

8/18/09-

             I thought that The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky was a complicatedshort story at the beginning, until the last section where it returned to the bride and groom's point of view. That is where i decided to like the story, only because i could actually understand what was going on. Like who Scratchy was and how he was the type of guy who would get drunk and go out shootin at people and dogs. scratchy was a unique character. He would be the hated character but still be the one to add suspense and action to such a short story.

Good work on wk. 1 - I am glad you feel so positively about the class. I try to make Symposium as much like a college class as possible... and in college, courses are (quite frankly) more "fun" than they generally are in high school. Your opinion counts for something in a lit class... so keep recording your ideas and be sure to share them in class too!