An essay

From The New York Times

Being confident

Guys, we need to improve our research skills, preparations, re-writing, and our speaking skills

So I leave these links fot you to read, see, lear from, and apply.

1. Some tips.  
2. Something to think about. 
3. Sounding smart.

LEAVE a comment on what you got from this.
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The Digestive Siystem

For the next class please print the digestive system document, BUT only the first 12 pages.

What kind of doctor do you want to be?

This is your assignment for the next class, and it is very simple. 

1. You are going to make a list of 5 specialties that you are interested in. 
2. You will describe, in no more than 50 words, what that specialty is, 
3. and why you want to study it. This has to be in YOUR WORDS, 50 to 100 aadditional words. 
4. You will make and PRINT a word document and bring it to class. 
5. You will give a mini presentation, individually, on ONE of the five specialties, but the trick is that I will tell you which one to talk about.
6. You can NOT read your presentation.
7. Take this quiz . It is fun.

Know what you're talking about; talk about yourself!

What we're trying to do here is get you to be an amazing public speaker. So, how do we go about doing that? We do it by getting you to do presentations, and then a few more presentations... and a some more presentations after that. You get the idea.
Let's look at some tips from the Toastmasters website.

1. I will make sure you that master these tips not by memory, but by constant work; http://www.toastmasters.org/tips.asp 
2. Make the right moves. Don't hold up the wall, it won't fall.. http://www.toastmasters.org/MainMenuCategories/FreeResources/NeedHelpGivingaSpeech/TipsTechniques/GesturesGetMoving.aspx 
3. Your visual support is vital to your presentation;  http://www.toastmasters.org/MainMenuCategories/FreeResources/NeedHelpGivingaSpeech/TipsTechniques/VisualAidsPowerPoint.aspx
4. Let's avoid this;  http://www.toastmasters.org/MainMenuCategories/FreeResources/NeedHelpGivingaSpeech/TipsTechniques/10BiggestPublicSpeakingMistakes.aspx 
5. If you lose it and things go wrong, this link will help you;  http://www.toastmasters.org/MainMenuCategories/FreeResources/NeedHelpGivingaSpeech/TipsTechniques/WhenThingsGoWrong.aspx 

And now the rules:

• Presentation will be about YOU!
• Tell us five things we do not know about you... GET creative talk about something which most people don't talk about.
• You have to talk about your past, present and future.
• You can bring any visual support you need, except PowerPoint or any computer based projection.
• You will leave a comment, mentioning the tip you think is most helpful, and why.
• You have to talk for a minimum of two minutes and a maximum of three.
• YOU CAN NOT READ YOUR PRESENTATION.
• Presentations will be on Monday September 15th, and it is part of your grade.

THE SKELETON

For this activity, I have borrowed from my fellow teacher Ariel.

The first thing you need to do is print this document, because we will use it in class. You must have YOUR OWN COPY in class in order to work. You can print on recycled paper.

Next you will test your knowledge at this link for practice. This link is for practice at home. 

In class, you will do an activity withis information. If you can bring a laptop or a table.

You will need to work in teams, but you will have individual work by the end of the class.

Parts of Specch and Parts of the Body

• In class, we saw the different Parts of Speech, and how they work. Go to this link to review how the parts of speech work, The first thing you are going to do is go to the link below and study how they work.

http://www.english-grammar-revolution.com/parts-of-speech.html 

• We also looked at the different parts of the body. You worked as a team and made a list with your classmates and we shared them in class. For your homework, you need to follow these steps.

1. Memorize and translate the body parts in this list. Did you have al of them in your exercise?
2. After studying them, do three exercises to test your memory; face, head, and body.
3. By now you are an expert on the vocabulary parts!
4. You will find appropiate images; 1 for the head, and 1 of the human body. Paste them on PowerPoint slides. Then, tag a minimum of 25 body parts (minimum 10 for head and face).
5. Finally you will send it to my email, ralfortiz@gmail.com. The suject of the mail, AND the name of the file is YOUR_NAME_bodyparts. For example PETER_PARKER_bodyparts.
6. The deadline for sending the email. is Thursday, August 28, 2014, before midnight

• For the next class*, you and your team will teach the class a yoga or tai chi routine, using commands. Remeber (1) every member of the team MUST speak individually, and (2) to bring comfortable clothes, so that we keep uniforms clean.

* Group 1: next class on Monday, August 25th at 10 A.M.
* Group 2: next class on Friday, August 29th at 9 A.M.
* Group 3: next class on Friday, August 29th at 11 A.M.

• Finally, after you read the complete assignment, leave a comment in the comment section with your name and group.

If you have questions, contact me.

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