Cerro Gordo…famous author’s day.. “Probably dead”
Beginning a speech: Bummy
Today I’ll tell you some stories about leadership and taking charge…and you’ll help me tell some stories.
So I was thinking…pretending I was an 8th-grader….somebody picked me to attend this leadership conference… not sure what it is…got on a bus and traveled to Rochester. . . .Swing choir performed…pretty good, but I still don’t know what’s going on…then they introduce this old bald guy….. And I think to myself… Am I going to listen to a boring speech? … or would I rather just hear him tell stories? Which choice would you make?
So I’m going to tell you a few stories… true stories about real people…about leaders. . . about people like you sometimes.
A story about a leader …mother died when she was 5, a very strict father who didn’t speak to her… Women shouldn’t be educated, so she got an education. Women couldn’t vote…she started the movement to get them the right.. Slavery controlled the South…she fought to have the slaves freed. But where did this start? Teenager… Civil War. . . thinking about herself. Julia Ward Howe. Battle Hymn….
Young boy born in Russia…mud floors in his house. Age 5: watched his house burn…Jewish family, Tsar. Smuggled to New York…sold newspapers… 5 cents a week…gave to his mother. Sold papers in taverns…heard the music…taught himself…black keys God Bless America… immigrant…Irving Berlin
Darktown …African American boy…Shelton Brooks, moved to Detroit African American kids weren’t allowed in music schools…taught himself
A lady who was a slave..named Araminta…Her owner came to their house one day to sell off her brother. Mother hid him. Said, “Whoever tries to take my son, I will split his head open.” Became a “house girl,” in charge of the baby. Whenever the baby cried she was whipped. She said, “One day I was whipped five times before breakfast.” Once asked to help catch a runaway slave…she refused..Master threw a two-pound piece of metal at her…cracked her head open…seizures the rest of her life. Became a conductor on the Underground Railroad. Married a man named Tubman and changed her name to Harriet. Ripley Ohio. Swing Low …
Trail of Tears….One lady…no one knows her name…began singing this song…. Amazing Grace
Scott Joplin Entertainer Victory…church lady Yellow Star This Little Light
Let’s have a little fun… You help me write the rest of this speech. A part of being a leader is being able to loosen up a little. Intro, Hope and Nate.
IMPROV The Brain . . . (bring a student up) Any question you’d like to ask about this person. School slides . . use kids from audience . . . ask someone: Tell us about your school….then do the slide show. Scene three ways (use audience?) Something weird that happened this morning with at least three people. 3-headed Broadway star . . . . the best thing about being an 8th-grader
A final word… Leadership doesn’t just meaning being elected president of some club at school or being chosen for a team. Monday when you return to your school and you see that boy who always eats by himself at lunch… It’s a leader who’ll sit beside him. That girl who gets left out of everything and hangs around her locker every morning before school, not talking to anyone… It’s a leader who’ll simply walk up and ask how she’s doing.
Wrap up session…Camp kidnapping, Brian Clowns. Victory in Jesus, This little light.
2014 Friday, Oct. 10 Rochester Methodist Church Students arrive 8:30-9:00 am 9:00-9:30- introductions and Chatham show choir performance 9:30- 10:something--Keynote Speaker (you!) 10:something to 12 something- breakout sessions Lunch Wrap up
Groupings 3 noses Cow, rabbit Start action Death by Murder wink Confessions Sound circle Statue Stare Vacation slides Channels Truth, truth, lie Word tennis Only questions Dating Game Darned Whistle Hitchhiker Work it in Endowment man Attitude line Freeze tag Move me Elevator Simul-talk Late for School Foley 3 interps