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Grade 8 - Timeline speech

The students must choose a speech from their timeline created in History. The speech must be at least 30 lines long. The student must select five passages from their timeline between one or two lines long and explain the meaning and importance of that event. The events will be talked about in a short presentation the student must give.

Rubric Code: FX2X66A

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Subject: Communication

Type: Presentation

Grade Levels: 6-8, 9-12

Commencement Speech
	Needs Improvement (N/A)	Fair (N/A)	Good (N/A)	Excellent (N/A)
Grammar	Needs Improvement More than 12 grammtical errors.	Fair 8-12 grammatical errors.	Good 5-8 grammatical errors.	Excellent 1-5 to grammatical errors.
Content	Needs Improvement The speech is unclear and the ideas supporting it are not tied to the timeline. Bad sentence structure. Less then satisfactory content.	Fair The speech needs work and doesn't have enough information to support it. Average content provided.	Good Has a good speech but isn't stated clearly enough. Supports the timeline but doesn't have enough information to back it up. Begins and ends paragraphs with good transitions.	Excellent Has a clear speech. Supports the timeline with good arguments and facts. Excellent sentence structure and very good transitions. Each paragraph supports an idea and backs up the timeline.
Presentation	Needs Improvement Either less then 1 min in length or over 3.5 minutes. Has no passages or only one or two picked out and doesn't explain why the passages are important or the importance of the speech.	Fair Either less then 1 min in length or over 3.5 minutes. Doesn't have the 5 passages picked out and cannot explain why the passages or the historical significance of speech is important.	Good Between 1 min to 3 min long. States how the 5 passages are important and why the speech is important but is not very clear on historical significance.	Excellent Between 1 min to 3 min long. Clearly explains how the 5 passages are important and why the speech is important.
Timeline	Needs Improvement The timeline was fairly complete and lacked content	Fair Timeline had content but lacked efficient planing and preparation. There were some valid events but they were not in order. There is less than 10 events present.	Good Learner shows good understanding of the task at hand. The timeline is well planned and effort has been put in. An overall good effort.	Excellent The learner has excelled at the task at hand. The events correlate and the planning has been done in an effective way to show the events in history. The presentation is colorful. A very good effort.

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