I'm teaching this summer for the first time since 1998. I'm leading an air-conditioned version of the Public Speaking Bootcamp. We just completed the first weekend. It's a fascinating group, very mixed in terms of ages and worldviews. About a fourth are over thirty and a fourth under twenty. There are white and blue collar workers, kids just out of high school, and one gentleman who spent 15 years in prison.
And I was impressed by the work they did this last weekend. Some of them chose very interesting rhetorical figures for their evocative speeches, like diacope and catachresis.
Now comes the hard part -- disciplining themselves to get their work done over the next three weeks.
