Friday, January 21, 2011

1402 Speech Critical T-Fri

We finished reading the syllabus.

Each person listed a problem they thought needed solving and we broke into small groups for the group symposium assignment. Each student will deliver a 3-minute speech.  Students exchanged names/emails/phone numbers. Following are the groups/topics:

Student interaction/campus
Rosalena
Niki
Joy
Kevin

Healthcare
Colin
Wilson
Kishal
Shayna
Deneice
Link to NPR story:
http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=132931975
Natural disasters
Frank
Vicki
MJ
Billy

Town budgets
Diana
Nyderia
Karina
Uthman
Here's a link for the town budgets group:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/21/business/economy/21bankruptcy.html?_r=1

To Do for Next Class

  • Work on Annotated Works Cited, which will be due next Tuesday. Come to class on Tuesday with at five annotated citations and have them in the format shown to you today in class.
  • Read half of Ch. 16, which is on groups