Speech, Tuesday, September 15, 2015 [4th period]

[professor-lyman.livejournal.com]

"Hey everyone. It has come to my attention that I forgot to give you an assignment last week, which means this week we learn about extemporaneous speaking."

Oops.

"The goal of extemp speaking is to pursuade or inform your audience on a given question. You should have an introduction, and then the body of your speech should give the audience facts to bolster your argument and flow right into the conclusion of your talk. You shouldn't seem like you're reading bullet points. I'll give you your topics and you have ten minutes to research on your phones and right a quick outline down, then get ready to impress us. We'll go...alphabetically today. You have to talk for seven minutes."

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Sign in 9/15

[professor-lyman.livejournal.com]

Ready to bullshit!

Listen to the lecture!

[professor-lyman.livejournal.com]

Anders, you get to talk about whether a glass is half full or half empty and why.
Face, you talk about your latest mad scientist invention.
Kathy, you tell us which show should be cancelled RIGHT NOW and why.

Speech, speech!

[professor-lyman.livejournal.com]

These should be good. And exactly seven minutes long. Josh has the stopwatch.

Talk to Josh

[professor-lyman.livejournal.com]

Hooray!

OOC

[professor-lyman.livejournal.com]

Re: Sign in 9/15

[gavegoodface]

Garik Loran

Re: Speech, speech!

[gavegoodface]

Face's speech involved a truly disturbing amount of cackling and dire vagueness.

Re: Speech, speech!

[professor-lyman.livejournal.com]

"The amount of cackling was truly disturbing," Josh told him.

Re: Sign in 9/15

[not_every_mage]

Anders

Re: Speech, speech!

[not_every_mage]

"This glass," Anders stated, brandishing one he'd acquired from some random cupboard, "is half-empty, and let me tell you why. If someone asks for a glass of water and you've got it to give, you don't give them half of one, do you? No, you fill it up. So one assumes this glass was once full, and has since been half-drunk. Therefore, the glass is half empty."

He continued in this vein for the rest of the seven minutes. Around minute five-and-a-half, he couldn't think of anything more to say about water or glasses, so he clumsily transitioned to talking about why Templars were terrible.

Re: Speech, speech!

[professor-lyman.livejournal.com]

"You ran out of steam with a couple minutes to go there," Josh offered.