To Do: for Thursday, September 15

Tasks for Thursday, September 15.

You should expect to spend approximately 2 hours on these tasks. They are listed here in order of increasing importance.

  1. Email me if you did not receive an invitation to the closed Facebüch group (and you want to receive one). This is for communicating about out-of-class events.
  2. Go to your blog and delete that default “Hello World” post.
  3. Post your in-class writing for today. Feel free to add, subtract, edit, or change what you wrote.
  4. Also write a blog post about anything you wish — try to make it bicycle or public-speaking related. Here’s the key part: make sure to add at least one image to your post. Who wants to read blog posts without pictures (like this one– see what I mean)? Suggestions:
    • favorite bicycle memory
    • favorite place in San Francisco (so far)
    • where you will go when we get you a bike
    • what you want your SF bike to be like
  5. Read this selection from the Arthur Conan Doyle story “The Adventure of Priory School.” This is the Sherlock Holmes story where the detective claims to be able to tell which way a bicycle was going. You can read the whole story if you want.
  6. Look at Chapter 13 from A Pocket Guide to Public Speaking. This chapter presents the organizational patterns we discussed in class today. These might be valuable tools for you in the future.

PS: It turns out they DID make a film version of this story, in classic English TV style.