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Assignment 9: Your Midterm

For your mid-term grade, you must do the following:

1. Email Terri both a topic and a full-sentence outline of your assigned section of Malcolm Gladwell's book, Blink. If you would like a refresher on outlines, go here. If you would like to see an example I made for the class, you can download one, here.


2. Using your topic outline, prepare a PowerPoint presentation of your assigned section of Blink. If you need a PowerPoint refresher, click here. If you would like to see my example of to you change a topic outline to a PowerPoint presentation, click here. Reminder: be sure to save your PowerPoint presentation on your Flash drive.

3 . Transfer the key points of your sentence outline (aka "script") to note cards. You will be using these note cards to give your speech to the class.

4 . Download this form to to find out exactly what you need to do before your speech and how you will be evaluated.

5 . REHEARSE, REHEARSE, REHEARSE your speech with your PowerPoint slides before you give it to the class.

6. Give your speech to the class.

That's all there is to it!

 

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