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Weeks 14-15

Tuesday

Listen

As you listen:

Round one: just listen. Notice which moments in the story are particularly impactful to you.

Round two: pay attention to how the pictch and speed of Voelz's voice changes as he tells the story. At which places do you notice him speeding up or slowing down? At which points do you notice his voice going up or down in unexpected ways. Places where he becomes louder or softer. Staccato or fluid.

In your teams:

1. Discuss what you noticed about how Voelz used his voice during the story. What stood out to you or surprised you? Try to address all of our characteristics (volume, speed, pitch, smoothness).

2. What where some places where this use of voice particularly contributed to the emotions of what he was saying? Why do you think it had that impact? Imagine how the emotions might have been different if he'd used his voice differently.

Practice:

1. With a partner look at the first paragraph or so of your podcast. Mark places where you could specifically slow down, speed up, get louder, softer, go up in pitch, down in pitch, etc.

2. Read your podcast with these changes, recording it on your phone or laptop. Then listen. What do the changes do for the speech? Do they make it better? Worse?

3. Work together to change any words or sentences that feel like they are things you would write but not things you would say. This might be because they are overly formal or just sort of unnatural feeling. See if you can find ways to phrase those things that feel more natural to your speaking voice.

4. Be prepared to share at least two changes you made with the class per team.

For tomorrow:

1. If you can bring a laptop do!

Wednesday

Wednesday

In your teams:

In your teams:

1. What stuck with you from the entire podcast? What do you remember most clearly? What surprised you?

2. Why does integration work and why did America stop doing it?

3. What information do we get in this opening? How does Hannah-Jones make it clear she is going to argue in favor of school integration without saying so?

4. Why do you think she structures her opening this way? Why might not stating her main point directly help her convince her audience?

5. Hannah-Jones discusses Lesley McSpadden (Michael Brown's mother) early in the podcast. Why do you think HJ includes this near the beginning of her argument?

6. How does Hannah-Jones help us get to know Nedra and Mah-Ria as people? How does she help her audience feel connected to these characters?

In your teams:

1. Continuing our conversation from yesterday. What do you notice about Ira Glass's style of delivery? Where does he tend to take pauses? What strategies does he make his delivery sound conversational or add personality to his delivery?

2. What do you notice about the way that Jones and Glass bring up the topic of school integration? What steps do they go through to lead the listener to that idea? What information or stories do they give? What questions do they ask? Why do you think they do it this way?

3. Find one statistic that Jones includes in her argument. Why do you think she includes it here? How does it add to the story or ideas she is bringing up? What would the argument loose without it?

4. Find two places where Ira Glass brings in a quote: one where he brings in just the quote without much transition, and another where he brings in with a more obvious transition and maybe even includes a bit of conversation. Speculate about why he used one strategy in one place and why he used the other in the other place. Why do you think he uses each strategy where he does?

Two possible programs:

Audacity (Mac or PC)

Garage Band (Mac)

Thursday

Tuesday

Monday

Wednesday

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