**To CP students: I am sorry for the lack of a blog last night....I forgot because I was so excited about the soccer game! The prompt to which you were to respond was this: "Can perfection exist in nature? Why or why not?"
Today's classes......
HONORS ENGLISH
1. Discussion of Voice, Tone, and Style....review of definitions....how to put them into practice
2. "Voice games"....we went over how to distinguish voice in our writing, and how to incorporate it....we all wrote to the prompt of "what annoys you?" and then tried to guess who wrote what....based on our individual voices
3. "Interview activity"....we walked around, paired up, and discussed possible prompts
PUBLIC SPEAKING
1. Finish "Merchants of Cool" documentary
2. Doublespeak
a. discussion questions in small groups
b. view powerpoint presentation on hedging, doublespeak, softening language, etc.
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