fandomhigh | Public Speaking [Tuesday, March 5, 2013, 1st period]

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Public Speaking [Tuesday, March 5, 2013, 1st period]

"You've had two weeks to prepare a persuasvie speech," Josh said, "and being such dedicated students, I'm sure you worked on them while we were cruising around in Turkey."

No he didn't, but they were still due today. If they weren't ready, well...that's why they'd also been working on their extemporaneous skills.

"Five minutes on something you're passionate about! Try to make us care about it too." He pointed to a random student. "You start."

"And--drum roll please--our press secretary for the day is Kate Bishop."

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Like you've totally forgotten to do your homework.

Natalie Adams

Sparkle

Ulrik of Denmark

Lex Luthor

Kate Bishop

Maddie Berry

Jace Wayland

Minako Aino

Arietty Clock

Loki Laufeyson

Hanna Marin

Richie Ryan

Jessica Drew

Five minutes on something you're passionate about! Perhaps you really care about not having to give a speech right after Spring Break!

Natalie had prepared a speech before Spring Break, even. And then she'd scrapped it after break, because she'd come up with something more current.

So, she delivered a very thoughtfully persuasive five minute speech about why everyone should come to see the Boards theater's performance of The Consequence of Being Frank this Friday, ending with the remark that she would be selling tickets in the dorm lobby later today.

Well, she'd promised Jono she'd advertise.

Ha. As if Sparkle had prepared something for today. He'd never done his homework before, why should he start now?

Besides, if there was one thing that Sparks could do well without rehearsal, it was natter on endlessly about whatever topic he so desired. And today, his topic of choice was, 'Why everybody should be allowed to keep a camel after going through the trouble of luring it onto a boat.'

It included a long-winded explanation of the process of luring a camel onto a boat, as well as the practical uses that a camel had on an island that was as crazy as this one. He thought that explaining how their ability to spit the contents of their first stomach chamber could possibly even scare off any gremlins that thought they might get a leg up on an unsuspecting Fandomite was a particularly inspired argument.

Of course, he also thought that they'd be crazy useful for taking walks on the beach without getting sand in your shoes, so take from this speech whatever you will.

Ulrik's speech? Was all about the rights of everyone to have a voice in government- and the responsibility that came with that right. So, yes, a "get out and vote" speech.

Kate had completely forgotten about this. But convincing other people to do what she wanted was her superpower so Kate managed a surprisingly persuasive speech about why cities should be designed on a grid pattern.

(Because then people didn't get as stupidly lost. Hear that, Turkish cities?)

Maddie and had completely and totally forgotten about this, so today was going to mean winging it, which she hadn't been that great at so far.

So she went with a speech on why spring break should be longer than a week, and while she probably wasn't very convincing, she'd clearly thought about this a lot.

Jessica had somewhat neglected her homework over break, so she gave a very passionate speech about the art of rambling on.

The key, she felt, was the fact that it was probably a six minute speech that she managed to compress down. Through PASSION.

Come on down! You're the next contestant on "What Are My Classmates Smoking When They Come Up With Their Questions?"

Get prepared!

This was not what she'd expected for her first class back, but Kate was good with it. Also possibly kind of looking forward to seeing what she was asked.

Do your worst!

"Miss Bishop," Natalie started, "what is your stance on Fandom Island's long-standing practice of letting the students of Fandom High account for approximately ninety percent of the island's defence force in time of crisis? Isn't that child endargement? Shouldn't the adults of Fandom be looking out for the minors instead of the other way around?"

"Frankly, Ms. Adams, I find it refreshing that Fandom High acknowledges and accepts the contributions of minors in times of crisis instead of attempting to shunt them off to a 'safe location,'" Kate replied.

"Miss Bishop," Sparkle intoned, putting on his serious face, "could you please address your thoughts on this island's current, and might I say rather distressing, deficit of camels?"

It was an economic disaster, Kate. Trust him on this.

"It's always been my understanding that the camel is a desert creature, Mr. Sparkle," Kate replied, attempting to match his seriousness. "Does the island have a desert for the camels to reside in?"

Though camels would give the flamingos a good territorial battle in the park.

They're there for you.

Well, Natalie was here for them. But especially so if they wanted to inquire about tickets for Friday night's play. Naturally she'd brought some tickets to class with her since she'd planned to give the related speech and all.

Speaking of which –- "And you, Professor Lyman, would you like to buy a ticket for the play?"

Lex was also there for them, and not spruiking tickets at people, either.

Mmm, delicious coffee.

Karla is off in Glacia today! Sorry about missing class!

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