Freshman Prayer and Great Thoughts Fourth Quarter Assignment

For the fourth quarter, your great thought talk assignment is going to look like this:
1. You must write up your great thought talk like you did in the first quarter. However, while you will have it with you at the front of the room during your talk, you won't read it to us. Rather, writing it up will ensure you have thought it through carefully and will have something you can lean on during your talk. Your talk should be about a page, single spaced.
2. In your talk, you need to use at least two of the rhetorical devices we have studied this year. Thus far that includes narration, compare and contrast, cause and effect, process analysis, and definition. We will be adding division and classification and argument to this as we go through the fourth quarter.
3. You need to use one of the lead and conclusion techniques we studied this year and include it in your header. This means you should never begin by saying, "My quote is..."or "I think this quote means..." nor end with, "Uh... yeah, that's all I got."
Your rubric will look like the following:
1. Preparation for prayer = 30
2. Quote is visually appealing = 10
3. Talk is written out = 30
4. Talk uses lead technique studied in class = 10
5. Talk uses conclusion technique studied in class = 10
6. Talk focuses on the idea the quote embodies, not the quote itself = 10
7. Talk lasts 60-90 seconds = 10
8. Eye contact = 10
9. Body language = 10
10. Voice projection = 10
11. Clarity of speech = 10
12. Use of two rhetorical devices evident = 20
13. Overall quality of talk = 30
Total = 200
Lastly, you will not sign up for days, but rather have your name drawn at random. Everyone will go at least once before someone will be asked to go for a second time, so you need to prepare two of these talks. The first random drawing will take place on Monday, March 30.