Thursday, September 23, 2010

9/23/10 Listening Activities

Here is your reading activity for the day:

1. Read everything before doing anything.

2. Put your name in the upper right hand corner.

3. Write the word “name” and circle it.

4. Write the date in all capital letters in the upper left corner of this page.

5. Draw five small squares under your name.

6. Put an X in each square you drew.

7. Put a circle around each square.

8. Put a circle around everything you wrote so far.

9. Put an X under your last name.

10. On the back of the paper multiply 733 by 419

11. Draw a rectangle around the number you just wrote.

12. Loudly call out your first name when you read this so your teacher can see who got this far.

13. If you think you have followed directions carefully up to this point, call out, “I have!”

14. On the back of this page, add 109.34, 1984 and 8965.

15. Put a circle around your answer, then a square.

16. Count from on to ten backward in a normal speaking voice.

17. If you are the first person to get this far, call out, “I am number one!”

18. Write the numbers from 1 to 10 on the line. Underline all even numbers.

19. Say aloud, “I am almost finished.”

20. Now that you have finished reading carefully, do only sentences 1 and 2.


Before tomorrow's class, you should write all of your interview answers to your blog. We will work on organizing soundbites and writing your segues in class tomorrow.


1. Following directions handout.
2. Who is the best listener you know? What makes them a good listener?
3. Partner purposely doesn't pay attention and is a bad listener.
4. Ask a queston followed by silence. What happened? (Dotson's non-question question). We have two ears and one mouth for a reason.
5. Ask multiple questions.
6. Ask very long question.
7. Confirm their answer and use the non question.

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