HAPPY BREAK EVERYONE!!!!!!!! HO HO HO!

Last Blog: Twas the night before finals....

..........when all through the crappy, filthy portable we call our classroom, not a creature was stirring (because even mice would reject our broken-down classroom and opt for a dumpster or something cozier) not even the teacher (exhausted by all the AMAZING persuasion she has experienced during your FAB speeches!) The stockings were hung-over the smudgy 15 year old white board ( a chimney? heck no! That would set the whole place on fire in no time, especially our paper-thin scrap wood walls) in hopes that the final (?) soon would be over with, not that we won't miss each other, (keep in touch on-line, if you haven't forgotten how to use the internet due to our ghetto/ low-tech room with only a dusty 1997 DVD and rusty overhead that projects straight onto the bare, banged-up wall).....FALALAL--LALALALA!

After my heart-warming holiday tale, I bid you farewell from COMM 301 blog-land--double credit for this last posting: Pick a cultural practice important to you this time of year (could be ethnic/could be spiritual/could be familial in nature) and tell us about it in a couple sentences...then relate it to the concept of audience analysis--perhaps the most important skill you will take away from this class--considering and adapting as sensitively as possible to your listeners and making it clear that we are all very different, but if we want to have important, difficult and eye-opening discussions, we can find common ground and convey mutual respect--REMEMBER: reasonable people can and often do differ in opinions but most of us want the overall big picture goals in life: Happiness, stability, love and connections. Your mastery of persuasion along with our thrilling political debate next week between Ryan and Brad are grounded in these closing ideas of the fall 2009 semester! See you at Coffee Garden on Franklin this Wed Dec 2nd at 8pm, I will bring the final details, you bring cofee $$ and your textbook/paper and pen and your "sacred writng log" or journal or stack of messy crumpled papers--call 799-7930 if you get lost--Smiles and Hope--Your proud teacher!