1. Topic: talking about and giving my opinion of the Divergent series ending

2. Audience: older kids; teenagers interested in reading

3. rough draft: introduce self. introduce the book series and give background on it. talk about the POV changes. talk about how the book ended. talk about how the ending was unexpected due to the main character dying & then switching to her boyfriend’s POV at the ending. talk about how i felt about it (bittersweet ending)

4. script: hi im taylor. today i’ll be talking about the book series Divergent. its about a girl named Tris who lives in a society who is seperated into factions based on certain personality traits. Brave – Dauntless, Selflessness- Abnegation, Intelligence – Erudite, Honest – Candor, and Peacefulness – Amity. Tris is Divergent, which means she doesnt fit into just one faction, she fits into multiple factions. The Erudite faction tries to overthrow the current government by developing a technology to use the Dauntless people as puppets. Tris finds out about this plan and tries to destroy their plan, and they do succeed with the help of Factionless people. The factionless people take over the government and run it, and Tris escapes the city she has been in for her whole life and ends up at a bureau where scientists have been studying them and explained what they were studying. They said the people in these factions were genetically mutated so they only fit into one category, where divergent people were bascally normal everyday people before this experiment. (*going to edit to make shorter plot summary of series)

The ending of this books was interesting, the point of view switched throughout the book between Tris and her boyfriend, Tobias. In the ending, Tris was shot and killed by the main scientist of the bureau, David. The point of view from then on was only Tobias’. It was pretty unexpected, considering most books the main character lives, while a very important character to them will die instead. I wasnt expecting Tris to die in the end of this series, which was pretty shocking and interesting way to close the book. (*will write more about why this series ending is significant and use this ending to encourage others to read the book because it stands out)

– Taylor and Sarah

Summary of what we did today:

1. Listened and learned what podcasts are 2. decided what genre of podcast we wanted to do – not a PSA 3. we started writing down on paper of what to write 4. we (Taylor) typed outline 5. started writing rough draft of actual script and thought about how to write given the audience of teenagers and our goal of getting them to read the series. 6. We talked about what we did today and were kinda sleepy so decided to list what we did!  Hope that’s okay 🙂