Slogans
The voting for Most Inspirational Teacher is over, but these are some the slogans I might have used.
O’Meara: Fat AND Bald
Because I’m Worth Mr O’Meara
Don’t Lean a Little, Learn with Mr O’Meara
If Only Everything In Life was Like Mr O’Meara
Snap! Crackle! O’Meara!
Leading Responsibly in a Digital World – Student Summit
Leading Responsibly in a Digital World – Student Summit
Have Some Fruit
1. Apple
2. Apricot
3. Banana
4. Berry
5. Blackberry
6. Blueberry
7. Boysenberry
8. Cantaloupe
9. Coconut
10. Cranberry
11. Date
12. Dragon fruit
13. Grape
14. Grapefruit
15. Guava
16. Honeydew
17. Kiwi fruit
18. Lemon
19. Lime
20. Mandarin
21. Mango
22. Melon
23. Nectarine
24. Orange
25. Papaya
26. Passionfruit
27. Paw paw
28. Peach
29. Pear
30. Pineapple
31. Plum
32. Prune
33. Quince
34. Raspberry
35. Rockmelon
36. Star fruit
37. Strawberry
38. Tangelo
39. Tangerine
40. Tomato
41. Watermelon
42. Cherry
Ten Things We Learned About Presenting Using PowerPoint
1. Make eye contact.
2. Have vocal and physical confidence.
3. Stand slightly to the side of the screen.
4. make sure that technology works as you expect before you start
5. Speak clearly.
6. High contrast colours work well.
7. Don’t write words that you can’t say.
8. Animate your points in the slide show.
9. Use lots of vivid images.
10. Check and recheck for spelling mistakes.
Writing Topic for Friday
Camping by the river.
Thursday’s Writing Topic
Five years after my only hit song.
Rhetoric: Example Assignment
Here is an example assignment about rhetorical devices and a pop song.
Rhetoric Techniques And Blister In The Sun
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Download example assignment
Your presentation should be similar in style and presentation.
The Hyphen
I saw this and thought it might be useful for researching our Grammar Guide.
Thoughts Happen: A Hyphen-Free World
Why is this? Here’s my best explanation: hyphens group modifiers together for clarity.
Writing Topic for Wednesday
Chocolate is good for you.
Rhetoric
In The Power of English today, we will start our work on rhetorical devices. Here is some of the material we will consider.
Rhetorical Devices
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Thursday
The word for today is overt.
Today’s quotation is from Thomas Edison, the American inventor. He said “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
Today is brought to you by the feeling of cool water running over your feet on a stinking hot day.
Esperanto/English Translator
While I was investigating Esperanto I found this really useful translator. Rather than just give you the whole sentence it translates word by word which gives you much better control over the new sentence.
Tradukilo – Esperanto/English Translator
Screenwriting Conventions
Here is some more information about the conventions of writing a screenplay. It’s not long so you should have a quick read of it.
Screenwriting – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Introduction to Esperanto
This is the site that I used to learn most of what I now know about Esperanto. If you have a few minutes you might like to take a look at the introduction as there is more detail and examples than I used. You can also click on words to hear what they sound like.
lernu: [...]
Pretty
Thanks for Jessikah for this pretty drawing.