{"id":121,"date":"2013-01-05T23:13:30","date_gmt":"2013-01-05T23:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meetdon.com\/?page_id=121"},"modified":"2016-08-26T18:28:19","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T23:28:19","slug":"project06","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/meetdon.com\/?page_id=121","title":{"rendered":"Hook &#038; Steve Irwin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Completed\u00a0Date:\u00a0 Tuesday, March 19, 2013<br \/>\nHost Club: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taleweavers.org\" target=\"_blank\">Tale Weavers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Peter Pan cut off Captain Hook\u2019s hand and fed it to a crocodile.\u00a0 The crocodile has been looking for rest of Captain Hook ever since.\u00a0 Steve Irwin, the late host of \u201cThe Crocodile Hunter\u201d was an Australian conservationist who was very knowledgeable about crocodiles.\u00a0 What advice would Mr Irwin have given to Captain Hook?\u00a0 The speech contains a lot of information about crocodiles and is presented in a very entertaining manner.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a46pUkBVnlE\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h1><b>About Project #06 \u2013 Vocal Variety<\/b><\/h1>\n<p>How speakers use their voices have more to do with the success of the speech than how well written the speech is.\u00a0 The objective of the vocal variety speech is to focus on improving the quality of the speech by using a variety of voice controls:\u00a0 volume, pitch, rate, and pauses.\u00a0 Each voice control affects the audience\u2019s ability to understand and feel the emotions that are being communicated.<\/p>\n<h1><b>Specifics \u2013 <\/b><\/h1>\n<h5>Word of Day: Ostentatious<\/h5>\n<h5>Speech Time Limit: 5-7 Minutes<\/h5>\n<h5>Actual Speech time: 6:00<\/h5>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<h1><b>Evaluation Notes \u2013 <\/b><\/h1>\n<p>This was one of Don Bailey&#8217;s favorite Peter Pan series speeches so far.\u00a0 He liked the opening,\u00a0many of the word descriptions, and the ryhme at the end.\u00a0 The speech\u00a0had good vocal variety, and good use of natural pauses.<\/p>\n<p>For improvement on this speech, he would have liked to see the use of Steve Irwin&#8217;s most famous word: &#8220;Crikey!&#8221;\u00a0 It would have made a difference!<\/p>\n<h1><b>Personal Comments &#8211;<\/b><\/h1>\n<p>I collected a lot of data on crocodiles, and I needed a way to unload all of it without looking like I was just listing a bunch of facts.\u00a0 I &#8220;story bundled&#8221; them.\u00a0 For example, my first point was that crocodiles are lazy hunters.\u00a0 I prefaced that by denoting Captain Hook&#8217;s belief that he was being hunted.\u00a0 From there, I unloaded a lot of incredible facts about crocodiles that related to their hunting abilties, and then later showed the facts that explain how they are lazy hunters.\u00a0 Therefore, the facts never seem like a long list.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I have never eaten bald eagle!\u00a0 Now you don&#8217;t need to be inclined to ask!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Completed\u00a0Date:\u00a0 Tuesday, March 19, 2013 Host Club: Tale Weavers Peter Pan cut off Captain Hook\u2019s hand and fed it to a crocodile.\u00a0 The crocodile has been looking for rest of Captain Hook ever since.\u00a0 Steve Irwin, the late host of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/meetdon.com\/?page_id=121\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":92,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meetdon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meetdon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meetdon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meetdon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meetdon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/meetdon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":615,"href":"https:\/\/meetdon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/121\/revisions\/615"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meetdon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/92"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meetdon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}