What Makes a Good Audience?

What Makes a Good Audience?

KINDS OF DISTRACTIONS

1.    *distractions (i.e., pass to leave or you get called to the office.)

2.    * distractions (You didn’t intend to distract, i.e., coughing, sneezing, or accidentally dropping something.)

3.    *distractions (Trying to tease the speaker on purpose, like making a face at him.)

v 9 Audience Responsibilities

1.    Be *.  That means LISTEN, DON’T SLEEP or play with your iPad or phone!

2.    * the speaker (maintain eye contact), especially if you are not too close to him or her.

3.    * only when appropriate.

4.    Avoid * movements, such as tapping your pen, moving around in your seat, etc.

5.    Never * to someone sitting next to you even if you are only commenting on the speech in a positive way.

6.    Do not * out of your seat unless it is absolutely necessary.

7.    Try to look * because this will give the speaker confidence.

8.    Remember, the speaker will probably interpret your actions and facial expressions in a * way if he or she is nervous.

9.     Always remember, it could be YOU up there, so be NICE!

v DON’T LOSE POINTS!

You will be GRADED as a listener each quarter. 

   You will start with *, but of course, you could lose more than that by distracting the speaker deliberately.

v Watch the “Audiences Behaving Badly” video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Mf0v8PlsPs

Journal Entry #2:  How would you feel if you were the student reading the essay?  What were some of the bad audience behaviors going on? Has something like this ever happened to you?  When?  Why is it so important to be a good audience member?  Explain.

SKATING WITH TIPPER essay (Fix paragraphing and Run-ons)

SKATING WITH TIPPER

Directions:  Revise this “essay” so that it no longer has run-ons or fragments.  Subdivide it so that it has correct paragraphing.  Fix any other errors you see.

          Have you ever been humilated and wondered how things got so out of control?  Well, that’s what happened to me recently when a kid considerably younger than I am got the best of me it was the low point of my life.  Last week I decided to go ice skating on a pond behind our house it’s only about a half of a block away so the first thing I did was sort through a messy basement closet to find my skates.  What a joke, what a mess!  That little chore took me twenty minnutes because my mother hid my skates under a pile of old rummage sale stuff that never sold and they were inside a box that was labeled “Christmas” so it seemed like Mom deliberately was playing Hide-and-Seek with me.  When Mom puts my stuff away.  She does it with a vengeance.  (Actually, there’s more to that story, she had told me to put the skates away about ten times and I ignored her.  Then she told me, “You’ll be sorry!”  Rule 1: Never underestimate your mother!)  After I found my skates, hockey stick, and puck, I put on lots of warm clothes and headed towards the pond.  My little nephew Tipper followed me there, I don’t know how he new what I was up to, he lives two houses down from us and I think my mother once again was behind his miraculous appearance.  How is it possible for a kid to just show up with his skates unless someone tipped him off?  Anyway, we both sat down on a log near the pond and put our skates on.  He had brought a hockey stick too, so I figured we could shoot around awhile.  Once we got onto the ice, I noticed it was pretty rough I mean it was very, very bumpy.  Some snow had frozen into it, but I wasn’t about to let that stop me.  Tipper and I started sailing around the pond we tried to avoid the occasional weeds that stuck up through the ice.  This little twerp wasn’t too bad of a skater in fact I hate to admit it, but he was better than I was at dodging weeds of course I could still whack the puck alot harder than he could.  I’m seventeen,Tipper is only ten but I shouldn’t have let that fool me.  The first thing that started to bug the heck out of me was that Tipper started stealing the puck away from me.  Not funny at all.  The first time he did it he giggled hilariously while I could feel my blood pressure rising and my face getting red it wasnt from the cold air either.  I told him to knock it off, he just smiled and grinned, then he said, “Well, why are you so slow?”  Did I mention that this kid is a smart aleck?  The second time he stole the puck from me.  I yanked his blond hair as hard as I could and he went flying across the ice.  I expected him to cry or wine at me and maybe even GO HOME immediately but no, he just giggled some more and started skating around me like I was a dying fish in a shark tank and that really made me mad, mad enough to lose my cool.  I told him, “Why don’t you go to the other end of the pond, and I’ll skate towards you with the puck, and you see if you can take it away again.”  My plan was to skate really fast and slam him with my hockey stick the moment he tried to lunge for my puck, maybe that wasn’t the brightest idea in the world but I wanted vengeance. Because he seemed to be enjoying himself at my expense.  Tipper took the challenge, he skated to the other end of the pond and we stood in face-off positions.  The moment I took off and headed towards him.  He did the same.  We were both skating as fast as we could go towards each other.  Then the moment of my humilation came, Tipper reached out to steal my puck.  And I stretched out my stick to whack the heck out of him.  Unfortunately, there was a small, innocent-looking pond weed sticking up through the ice that was apparently on my nephew’s side. And I didn’t notice that little evil weed. Until it was too late.  My skate blade twisted and I was the one who went hurling across the ice with my face scraping the snow like a plow on a side road.  I looked up in defeat.  As my darling nephew Tipper zipped past me with MY puck gliding along under his control.  He yelled, “Hey, Pokey, you want me to teach you how to skate?”   I didn’t say a word, there was too much snow in my mouth. My leg ached, and my face stung. And it wasn’t just from embarassment. Still, I couldn’t help but wonder, “Is this kid really that good, or did Mom set me up on this one?”  Like I said. Never underestimate your mother.  And never underestimate little kids either.

A- Contract work:  Write a good sentence that is 30 or more words long, but make sure it is NOT a run-on.

Example: Wishing he'd brought his umbrella and dreaming of his nice warm bed, John waited for the city bus for twenty minutes in the rain last Tuesday because his Ford Escort was in the repair shop.

FIX FRAGMENTS #2

FIX FRAGMENTS #2

HOW DO YOU FIX FRAGMENTS? 
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PART ONE:  Fix the fragments in this passage.        

            Although women's college basketball in Connecticut is a marvelously entertaining and popular sport. It not hard to remember. When it was not so popular. It’s is hard to believe. Only a few years ago, my friends and I to went to a women's basketball game. And we could get seats for free near center court. Especially on Sunday afternoons.
     Of course, that before names such as Rebeccca Lobo, Jenn Rizzotti, and Kara Wolters became household words. Lobo's book, HOME-COURT ADVANTAGE, which she wrote with her mother. A best-seller in Connecticut. If more than a couple of hundred fans showed up for a game. It was considered a big turnout. And games were played in practically silent gyms. Because the fans didn't care who won. Nowadays, it almost impossible to buy tickets to a women's game, and you can't get seats. Unless you know someone.      
       Indeed, who would have predicted ten years ago? That women's basketball so wildly popular? Well, people who have watched the growth of women's basketball in southern states. The enormous campus arenas at the state universities in Tennessee, North Carolina, and Georgia filled to capacity for home games.
      The coach for Tennessee's Lady Vols, Pat Summitt. She has achieved nearly godlike stature in that state. A tall, striking figure on- and off-court. Summitt commands respect. Wherever she goes. My youngest sister, Ruth Ann, who lives in Tennessee. She says you can't near Pat Summitt after a game. "You'd think she a rock star," she says. Although Geno Auriemma, Coach of the UConn women's team. Not yet enjoying that kind of support. He rapidly becoming a widely recognized figure. Because he appears frequently on TV news and sports shows.

Part Two: Fix the fragments

             The boat ride to the island took about 2 hours. Our boat held a lot of tourists.  About thirty people.  As we were cruising.  We could see dolphins in the water.  They started playing with us. Coming very close to the boat. Jumping, flipping, and splashing. We raced with the dolphins. Which was exciting. Even though we lost.  We reached the island’s shore at sunset. Just in time for the luau. We saw a show at the Polynesian Cultural Center.  Dancing and singing in traditional Polynesian costumes. We tasted many local dishes.  I loved all of the foods. Especially the poi. Which is ground up taro root. When it was time to get back on the boat.  I wanted to stay.  Because my first trip to Hawaii was so fun. (12 errors)

Tech Writing - Fix Fragments #1

FIX FRAGMENTS #1     Name: _____________

Part one:  Fix the fragments by combining the sentences or adding words to them.

1.  While I was sleeping. My dog began to bark.
2.  The winter of 2011 is shaping up to be one of the worst on record for several states, 3.  SUNY Rockland has already had several snow days and more storms are on the way.
4.  I stopped at the grocery store to pick up chips and salsa. Before the Super Bowl began.
5.  I enjoy skiing it is my favorite winter sport.
6.  I prefer reading mysteries over romances. Especially mysteries with a paranormal element.

Part Two:  Put these sentences into paragraph form, and get rid of fragments. Get rid of the numbers.

1.  Children receive conflicting messages from a variety of sources.
2.  Which cannot be silenced: teachers, books, friends, and television programs.
We have, from time to time, experimented in this country with limited access to potentially damaging or offensive materials.
3.  Such as books and movies.
4.  But these experiments have not withstood legal challenges.
5.  The courts have decided that Americans have the right to choose what they see or hear and that writers and others have the right to create what they wish.
6.  Although,  certain extreme circumstances, like child pornography, are so offensive and damaging to the children being filmed that as a society we have said that such products are repugnant.
7.  Which is the argument that Charren is making about advertisements directed at children.
8.  But as a society having agreed to limit speech only in the most extreme cases.
9.  There is nothing in the making of advertisements that is as purposefully vulgar or harmful as there is in child pornography.
10.  If anything, advertising more closely resembling the language of our everyday speech.

Part Three:  Combine these sentences to eliminate fragments and make them complete sentences. 

          While only eight microbreweries existed in the United States a decade ago. Today seventy microbreweries are brewing more than 65,000 barrels of specialty beers a year. Microbreweries are winning awards for the tastiness of their products. Which has caused the large producers to alter their production and advertising techniques. Because microbrewery beer is often free of additives. It must be sold locally. Local production, distribution, and advertisting has become a key to microbrewery success. Which depends on creating the perception among buyers of a freshness and healthfulness not available in mass-market beers. Even though image is important. Quality of the product is what has convinced an increasing number of American beer drinkers to buy from local, smaller breweries.