Full Outlines

Agenda:

• Workshop time for full outlines

Homework:

• Full outlines due tomorrow
• Begin your drafts ASAP!  Recordings are due on Monday!

Hitchhiker Improv

Agenda:

• Hand in simple outlines
• Overview of full outline
• Improv: Hitchhiker

Homework:

• Full outline due Wednesday

Outline Workshop

Time reserved for outline workshop.

Outline

Agenda:

• Review of outline format (Harvard)
• How to move from notes to an outline
• Index Cards
• Digital
• Workshop

Homework:

• Simple outline due Friday
• Notes should have been handed in today

Improv Practice

Agenda:

• Reminder of improv suggestions
• Sample viewing: Upright citizen's brigade (start-4:00, 5:00-end of scene)
• Improv w/ scenarios

Homework:

• Notes due tomorrow

Workshop

Agenda:

• Workshop period

Homework:

• Notes due Wednesday
• Vocab due 6/1

Note taking workshop (Thurs. and Fri.)

Agenda:

• Review what notes and source cards could look like
• Workshop for own source

Homework:

• Notes for source (digital or index cards) will be due on Wed.
• 6/1 vocab

Directions on Note Taking

Agenda:

• Read sample articles
• https://www.doi.gov/blog/15-facts-about-our-national-mammal-american-bison
• http://www.grandforksherald.com/news/region/4028314-buffalo-now-national-mammal-after-obama-signs-bison-legacy-act
• Overview of notes
• Printed version
• Digital version
• Practice Note Cards or Digital Notes
• 1 source and multiple notes/note cards needed
• If digital, you will need to submit to classroom

Homework:

• Finish the practice note cards

Source Workshop

Agenda:

• Workshop time to evaluate sources
• Improv if extra time

Homework:

• 6/1--vocab due
• sources due WED!!

Introduction to Improv

Agenda:

• Rules of improv
• Salesman improv (slideshow)

Homework:

• 5/17 --research due (4 credible sources min.)
• 6/1--vocab due

Workshop: Research

**Continue research started yesterday if on pace**

Workshop: Research

Agenda:

• Overview of what sort of information to look for
• Google Scholar Tour: scholar.google.com
• Time to find own research (4 sources min, if on pace)

Homework:

• Sources due 5/17
• Vocab due 6/1

Website Evaluation

Agenda:

• Review evaluation tips
• Practice
• Supporting Detail workshop time

Homework:

• Supporting Detail analyses are due tomorrow
• 6/1--vocab due
• **You already should have submitted your topic on an index card**

Final Supporting Detail Workshop

Agenda:

• Final workshop to complete supporting detail analyses

Homework:

• Wed--all 4 analyses due
• 6/1--Vocab list due

Finding a Specific Purpose and Thesis

Agenda:

• PPT and writing a specific purpose
• Testing your specific purpose
• Writing a draft thesis
• Sample speech--this might be what your speech ends up looking like

Homework:

• Supporting Info Analyses are due 5/10
• 6/1 Vocab is due

Supporting Information Workshop

Continue Supporting Info Workshop--all due 5/10

Vocab list due 6/1

**Please come tomorrow with an idea of what your topic is going to be.  You may need to revisit your brainstorming activities as well as your topic analyses.**

Topic Analysis

Agenda:

• Vocab warm up
• Choose two topic areas
• Complete mind mapping with one
• Complete journalist questions with another
• Workshop time for supporting information analyses

Homework:

• Vocab due 6/1
• Topic analyses due 5/10
• You should have completed the topic analysis before the end of class today

Brainstorming: News and Media Prompts

Agenda:

• What are news and media prompts?
• Finding three possible topics
• Workshop: Supporting Information

Homework:

• Brainstorming should be completed for tomorrow
• 5/10--Supporting Information Analyses are due

Workshop for Supporting Information

Agenda:

• Workshop for supporting information

Homework:

• Prepare to finish brainstorming activities tomorrow