# Schedule
### Monday
- Check outlines from last week's talk (in the wiki).
- What makes a good presentation?
- Organization: by importance, cause and effect, problem and solution, chronological order, compare and contrast,
- point of view, opinion, argument, thoughts, perspective vs. facts
- non-verbal communication: hand gestures, facial expression, eye contact with the camera,
- Use of voice: volume, pauses, pace, intonation,
- can we hear you - background noise
### Tuesday
- TOEFL listening
- Let's get you going on...
- Cut down time
- Doable
- Relatively young artist
- Scene
- Bleak
- Iowa
- Posture
- Realism
- Brush strokes
- Vibrant colors
- Accessible artist
- Potrait
- Keep at it
- To appreciate an artist
- Dating technique (land formation)
- For instance
- Vast desert
- Desserts
- Record (noun and verb)
- Eye opening
- To go about it a certain way
- Is everyone with me on this?
- Something has been with us for a long time
- Gain popularity
- Break apart
- As every should know...
- Settlement
- [Stonehedge](https://duckduckgo.com/?q=stonehedge&iax=images&ia=images)
- Will yield more clues
- Growing season
- Hybernationo make it on your own
- To make it on your own
Begin Listening Circle Activity.
### Wednesday
- Uploaded your Cornell Notes.
- Using your Cornell Notes, discuss with a classmate what you learned.
- Prepare a PowerPoint presentation using to discuss the topic of professional experience.
**SmartArt Graphics**
- Add an essential question to your Cornell Notes with will also be the title of your talk.
- Choose a rhetorical pattern from Rhetorical patterns for writing and speaking that is appropriate for your topic on professional experience.
- chronological (time, routines, etc.), cause and effect, problem and solution, question and answer, order of importance, risks and rewards, pros and cons, fact and opinion, process, categories, spatial order,
- Choose at least eight words or phrases below to include in your talk that is based on the topic of professional experience.
- Present a thesis or main idea or point of your talk.
- Choose key questions and ideas from your Cornell Notes.
- Include at least eight words or phrases taken from the TOEFL listening practice on January 31, 2023.
- Avoid using a lot of text; key words and phrases also.
- Avoid bullet points
### Thursday
[https://youtu.be/KbSPPFYxx3o](https://youtu.be/KbSPPFYxx3o)
- Things to avoid when preparing a PowerPoint
- Meet with each group to discuss the following:What's the title of the video that you watched?What are your individual essential questions for your talk?What rhetorical patterns will you be using for your talk?Which key vocabulary words did you chose from Tuesday's TOEFL listening?What is your thesis or main idea of your talk?Which SmartArt graphics do you plan to use?
### Friday
- Work on PowerPoint.
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