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Oral communication is a prepared, purposeful presentation designed to increase knowledge, to foster understanding, or to promote change in the listeners' attitudes, values, beliefs, or behaviors. Oral communication takes many forms. This rubric is specifically designed to evaluate oral presentations of a single speaker at a time and is best applied to live or video-recorded presentations. This rubric best applies to presentations of sufficient length such that a central message is conveyed, supported by one or more forms of supporting materials and includes a purposeful organization.

Students should complete research via the internet on music of the Harlem Renaissance, choose one song they identify with, and complete a close read of it. They must pull three literary qualities found in the song and describe them. The song lyrics MUST be attached to the analysis. DUE Tomorrow!

ELA8R1: The student demonstrates comprehension & shows evidence of a warranted and responsible explanation of a variety of literary and informational texts. For informational texts, the student reads and comprehends in order to develop understanding and expertise and produces evidence of reading that: g. Analyzes & evaluates the effects of sound, form, figurative language, and graphics in order to uncover meaning in literature: i. Sound (e.g., alliteration, onomatopoeia, internal rhyme, rhyme scheme, meter) ii. Figurative language (e.g., simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, symbolism, imagery). ELA8C1: The student demonstrates understanding of conventions & grammat in both written and spoken formats. g. Produces final drafts/presentations accurrate spelling & the correct use of punctuation and capitalization. ELA8W2: The student demonstrates competence in a variety of genres by: h) using a range of strategies (figurative language, tone & mood).

This rubric details the requirements for this essay, due one week from today. Be sure to include all aspects of this rubric in your essays for the best possible grade. Good luck!

Students are to write a 1-2 page short story of their choosing that incoporates one of the writing styles discussed in class. The story can be fictional in nature and any topic they choose.

Generalized rubric to cover a variety of note-taking formats