If you were asked to give a speech on the use of technology in the classroom (or a topic of your choosing), what types of supporting materials would be the most appropriate and effective for you to use during your presentation? provide several specific examples and explain why you feel they would be effective.

The types of supporting materials you can use are:

1. Testimony (expert or peer). When using testimony, it is best to make certain that the source is neutral and objective and is qualified on the subject at hand.

2. Examples (brief, extended, and hypothetical). Certain types of examples can personalize your ideas by adding HUMAN interest to them and to have a strong and powerful effect on listeners' beliefs and actions, examples should be vivid and concrete.

3. Statistics (for using statistics effectively you must explain any statistics that are used, use visual aids to clarify statistical trends and use statistics reasonably).

4. Bibliographies (in all your oral citations you must typically include the type of document, the author, the date published, and the author's qualifications).

Finally, when you orally cite a source and quote your source in a speech, you should use your tone of voice or slight pauses to indicate when you are giving quoted material and vary the way you cite your sources, blending the information into your speech.

there mad at that place

in a place once known as north america, now known as panem, is a very rich city surrounded by twelve districts. every year because this very rich city, known as the capitol, is so rich and likes to think they control all the districts - which they do - there is something known as the hunger games! this is where two children, one boy and one girl from each district from the ages of twelve to eighteen, have to leave their families and compete in the hunger games, a live event that is aired on tv's all over panem. when katniss everdeen, aged sixteen from district 12, has to volunteer to take the place of her twelve-year-old sister prim after prim's name is called forth to become the 23rd member to compete in the 74th hunger games, she promises to prim that she will win! katniss doesn't believe she's coming out alive - but she's not going down without a fight.

because district 12 is so poor, katniss has been close to death many times from starvation but she's made it through it. but this is a different kind of close to death; this katniss doesn't know if she can survive.

she doesn't want to hurt, or kill anyone but when it comes down to it katniss' instinct is to survive. but when she starts to have confusing feelings about the boy from her district who is also her fellow contender, things get worse, and then she teams up with the girl from district 11 and only one person can survive. but who will it be? will her feelings get the better of her? will she let someone else win so they don't have to die? if katniss is going to win she's going to have to be brutal. she's going to have to kill!