Scribe P5: April 8th 2014

• Smith began with her normal opening (hello class HELLO SMITH).
• She then told us that she will be absent tomorrow as she will be with her friend’s son, who is having his heart examined (he was born with a heart that was underdeveloped on the  left side).
• She took volunteers for jobs she would normally perform at the fishbowl tomorrow: Blake and Will will control the CoverItLive and Diana will keep track of the inner circle conversation.
• And then she reiterated (multiple times) that our sentence must be ONE SENTENCE.
• She said that there is no “wrong’ to the sentence, as long as it is A SENTENCE. (that is, it could be your purpose, what you live your life by, something that you believe in, etc.)
• We finished the “If I should have a daughter” TED Talk ( Link to Sarah’s TED Talk video: http://www.ted.com/talks/sarah_kay_if_i_should_have_a_daughter.html) and Smith stated that the only rule for our TED talk is that it must be an idea worth spreading.
• Smith had everyone open up a google doc to take notes on what Sarah (the TED Talk speaker) did well in her speech: we made a table:

Content	Style	Speaking Techniques
Spoken Word Poetry: expresses ideas in a different way	Passion: energy	Personal Stories
Open yourself up to hurts in the world to see the beauty	Personal	She knew what she was going to say: memorized speech
Develop talents to succeed	Confidence: stance, voice, movements, very sure of herself and her words, memorized speech	Tone of voice- adds to the story
Express yourself rather than hiding who you are	Rhythm	Gesticulation- used hand movements for emphasis
Don’t let yourself be unfazed by what goes on around you	Loose, Relaxed: Practiced, but takes things in stride	Played with audience’s emotions
	Free flowing, pacing (of her words)	Got audience involved
		Very descriptive
		Good pace of speech- not too fast or too slow
		Related to the audience: Used information people could connect to
		Lots of eye contact: with entire crowd (but without scanning them)
		Strong posture

• and began a summary response for the “If I should have a daughter” TED Talk with a basic “template”:

Summary:

In Sarah Kay’s “If I Had a Daughter”, Kay [explains] the importance of walking through life with open arms because, without doing so, ___[we lose our humanity, become hard-shelled, etc.)____ happens.

• Point one of summary (insert as many as needed to summarize succinctly and accurately)
• Point two of summary

Conclusion

Response:

Sarah Day in the TED Talk “If I…” [correctly- opinion] [illustrates] the importance of being vulnerable because, without vulnerability…

• Kay “you’ll miss out on life if you don’t walk around with open arms”
• Education
• World
• Videos
• Songs
• Ideas

• Smith then gave us ten minutes of work time and told us that from now on, we will be the ones extending our own learning- that we have to welcome every time that we walk into the classroom and embrace challenges.