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Common Core ELA MS Reflection 06/29/12

Program ID: C0309_001008

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Common Core: ELA
Reflections on Speech Presentations
00:00:06 / Julie Manley: Welcome to class. You guys, I want you to do a couple of things before we get going with our persuasive speeches today.
00:00:11 / Julie Manley: I just taught two lessons that asked students to work on the standard of both reading and then constructing their own argument where they used a clear claim that was supported with a sound line of reasoning and well-chosen evidence. / TEXT:
Julie Manley
8th Grade ELA Teacher
Chinook Middle School, Bellevue, WA
00:00:30 / Boy: Studies shown by Elizabeth Hartney, a specialist and consultant with gaming addictions, found 10% to 15% of video game players meet the criteria for addiction. / TEXT:
Speech Topic: Addicted to Video Games
00:00:39 / Julie Manley: I feel and saw that students achieved quite well and met the objectives that were set out at the beginning of the class period. The speakers, who delivered their speeches, did so successfully.
00:00:51 / Julie Manley: And they came prepared, and they were able to articulate their clear position through their claim, and defend that or support that with clear reasoning and evidence.
00:01:01 / Girl: In recent studies conducted by the Harris Interactive Teen Research Society, teenagers are spending close to eight hours a day using technology. / TEXT:
Speech Topic: We Need to Disconnect the Plug
00:01:10 / GiRl: If we continue this pattern throughout the course of our lives, we will have spent forty-four years straight of waking hours just sitting behind a screen.
00:01:18 / Julie Manley: Equally, the students in the audience, as listeners, were able to evaluate the speaker's performance and I was able to see that by their ability to take notes.
00:01:30 / Boy: When she was talking, she was, like, really confident in what she was saying. Like, she really believed it. I mean she brought that out by, like, using a lot of really good word choice.
00:01:39 / Julie Manley: I was pleasantly surprised at how passionate and well-focused they were.
00:01:46 / Girl: This is outrageous. Music should be free in the first place. I mean buying it is way too expensive. It takes more time to buy it. It prevents popularity to not well-known or new artists. And it decreases the percentage of people that can afford it. / TEXT:
Speech Topic: Downloading Music
00:02:00 / BRYN: Well, I already had an idea in my head of what I wanted to do because I've always been passionate about music. But I was still kind of iffy on how I was going to write it because it was kind of confusing at first. / TEXT:
Bryn Hogenson
8th Grade Student
Chinook Middle Schools, Bellevue, WA
00:02:12 / BRYN: But Ms. Manley showed us a text, a really good example text that one of her past students had done and it really kind of helped me to get an idea of what this was going to be about and how this was going to go down.
00:02:24 / Julie Manley: Delivering a persuasive speech is a very sophisticated task. So I was very pleased to see that students were able to craft and write a text that included all of the persuasive components from claim reasoning, evidence that was logically organized.
00:02:40 / Girl: Not only is it scary to think that our teens are spending their valuable time with Facebook, video games, YouTube, texting, etc., the list goes on and on. But it's frightening for our future generations to come that teens are actually less interested in face-to-face conversing as UCLA has concluded in studies.
00:02:57 / LINNEA: Today, I learned that I need to have more logos involved in my speech so people can't say I have faulty persuasion. And I need to be able to incorporate the studies in ways that is interesting and engaging to my peers, yet still backing up my claim. / TEXT:
Linnea Uyeno
8th Grade Student
Chinook Middle Schools, Bellevue, WA
00:03:14 / Julie Manley: I would evaluate the class today as being very successful. The speakers that we heard we're all prepared. They had all of the components of argument.
00:03:25 / Julie Manley: And then, as audience members, I was pleased in all students' ability to formulate an evaluative response of feedback to give to their peers, both in writing and verbally.
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