Criterion |
Rating
Excellent
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Rating
Good
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Rating
Satisfactory
|
Rating
Needs Improvement
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Content
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Opening
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Gets
attention of audience, clearly identifies topic, establishes credibility and
rationale, and previews the main points
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Meets
any three of the four criteria
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Meets
any two of the four criteria
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Meets
only one of the four criteria
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Body
|
Main
points are clear and are well supported,
Sources
are mentioned
Uses
relatable examples and presents concepts in understandable terms
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Meets
any three of the four criteria
|
Meets
any two of the four criteria
|
Meets
only one of the four criteria
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Conclusion
|
Reviews
main points
Brings closure
Memorable
|
Reviews
main points
Brings
closure
|
Brings
closure
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Does
not bring closure
The
audience is left hanging
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Oral Communication
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Student uses a clear voice and correct,
precise pronunciation of terms so that all audience members can hear
presentation.
Student maintains eye contact with
audience, seldom returning to notes.
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Student's voice is clear. Student
pronounces most words correctly. Most audience members can hear presentation.
Student maintains eye contact most of
the time but frequently returns to notes.
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Student's voice is low. Student
incorrectly pronounces terms. Audience members have difficulty hearing
presentation.
Student occasionally uses eye contact,
but still reads most of report.
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Student mumbles, incorrectly pronounces
terms, and speaks too quietly for students in the back of class to hear.
Student reads all of report with no eye
contact.
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Body Language
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Body
language, gestures, and facial expressions
adds
greatly to the message.
|
Body
language,
gestures,
and facial
expressions
compliment message.
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Body
language,
facial
expressions and gestures lack variety and spontaneity
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Body
language, gestures, and facial expressions are lacking or inappropriate
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Eye Contact
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Eye
contact with audience virtually all the time (except for brief glances at
notes).
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Eye
contact with audience less than 80% of the time.
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Eye
contact with audience less than 75% of the time.
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Little
or no eye contact.
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Visual Aids
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Student's
graphics explain and reinforce screen text and presentation.
Presentation
has no misspellings or grammatical errors.
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Student's
graphics relate to text and presentation.
Presentation
has no more than two misspellings and/or grammatical errors.
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Student
occasionally uses graphics that rarely support text and presentation.
Presentation
has three misspellings and/or grammatical errors.
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Student
uses superfluous graphics or no graphics
Student's
presentation has four or more spelling errors and/or grammatical errors.
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Time
|
Speech
is about 5 minutes long
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Speech
is just under a minute (4 or 6 minutes)
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Speech
is too long or too short (2 or 7 minutes)
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Speech
is extremely too long or too short (1 or more than 7 minutes long)
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Miseducated Notes
Thursday, November 24, 2016
Speech Presentation Rubric
Sunday, October 23, 2016
Section 6: Manuscript Reading
Look, the insidious thing about these forms of worship is not that they're evil or sinful; it is that they are unconscious.
They are default-settings. They're the kind of worship you just
gradually slip into, day after day, getting more and more selective
about what you see and how you measure value without ever being fully
aware that that's what you're doing. And the world will not discourage
you from operating on your default-settings, because the world of men
and money and power hums along quite nicely on the fuel of fear and
contempt and frustration and craving and the worship of self. Our own
present culture has harnessed these forces in ways that have yielded
extraordinary wealth and comfort and personal freedom. The freedom to be
lords of our own tiny skull-sized kingdoms, alone at the center of all
creation. This kind of freedom has much to recommend it. But of course
there are all different kinds of freedom, and the kind that is most
precious you will not hear much talked about in the great outside world
of winning and achieving and displaying. The really important kind of
freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort,
and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for
them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day. That
is real freedom. The alternative is unconsciousness, the
default-setting, the "rat race"-the constant gnawing sense of having had
and lost some infinite thing.
I know that this stuff probably doesn't sound fun and breezy or grandly inspirational. What it is, so far as I can see, is the truth with a whole lot of rhetorical bullshit pared away. Obviously, you can think of it whatever you wish. But please don't dismiss it as some finger-wagging Dr. Laura sermon. None of this is about morality, or religion, or dogma, or big fancy questions of life after death. The capital-T Truth is about life before death. It is about making it to thirty, or maybe fifty, without wanting to shoot yourself in the head. It is about simple awareness-awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, that we have to keep reminding ourselves, over and over: "This is water, this is water."
I know that this stuff probably doesn't sound fun and breezy or grandly inspirational. What it is, so far as I can see, is the truth with a whole lot of rhetorical bullshit pared away. Obviously, you can think of it whatever you wish. But please don't dismiss it as some finger-wagging Dr. Laura sermon. None of this is about morality, or religion, or dogma, or big fancy questions of life after death. The capital-T Truth is about life before death. It is about making it to thirty, or maybe fifty, without wanting to shoot yourself in the head. It is about simple awareness-awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, that we have to keep reminding ourselves, over and over: "This is water, this is water."
Section 5: Manuscript Reading
Again, please don't think that I'm giving you moral advice, or that
I'm saying you're "supposed to" think this way, or that anyone expects
you to just automatically do it, because it's hard, it takes will and
mental effort, and if you're like me, some days you won't be able to do
it, or you just flat-out won't want to. But most days, if you're aware
enough to give yourself a choice, you can choose to look differently at
this fat, dead-eyed, over-made-lady who just screamed at her little
child in the checkout line-maybe she's not usually like this; maybe
she's been up three straight nights holding the hand of her husband
who's dying of bone cancer, or maybe this very lady is the low-wage
clerk at the Motor Vehicles Department who just yesterday helped your
spouse resolve a nightmarish red-tape problem through some small act of
bureaucratic kindness. Of course, none of this is likely, but it's also
not impossible-it just depends on what you want to consider. If you're
automatically sure that you know what reality is and who and what is
really important-if you want to operate on your default-setting-then
you, like me, will not consider possibilities that aren't pointless and
annoying. But if you've really learned how to think, how to pay
attention, then you will know you have other options. It will actually
be within your power to experience a crowded, loud, slow, consumer
hell-type situation as not only meaningful but sacred, on fire with the
same force that lit the stars-compassion, love, the sub-surface unity of
all things. Not that that mystical stuff's necessarily true: The only
thing that's capital-T True is that you get to decide how
you're going to try to see it. You get to consciously decide what has
meaning and what doesn't. You get to decide what to worship...
Because here's something else that's true. In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And an outstanding reason for choosing some sort of God or spiritual-type thing to worship-be it J.C. or Allah, be it Yahweh or the Wiccan mother-goddess or the Four Noble Truths or some infrangible set of ethical principles-is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive. If you worship money and things-if they are where you tap real meaning in life-then you will never have enough. Never feel you have enough. It's the truth. Worship your own body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly, and when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally plant you. On one level, we all know this stuff already-it's been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, bromides, epigrams, parables: the skeleton of every great story. The trick is keeping the truth up-front in daily consciousness. Worship power-you will feel weak and afraid, and you will need ever more power over others to keep the fear at bay. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart-you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out. And so on.
Because here's something else that's true. In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And an outstanding reason for choosing some sort of God or spiritual-type thing to worship-be it J.C. or Allah, be it Yahweh or the Wiccan mother-goddess or the Four Noble Truths or some infrangible set of ethical principles-is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive. If you worship money and things-if they are where you tap real meaning in life-then you will never have enough. Never feel you have enough. It's the truth. Worship your own body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly, and when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally plant you. On one level, we all know this stuff already-it's been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, bromides, epigrams, parables: the skeleton of every great story. The trick is keeping the truth up-front in daily consciousness. Worship power-you will feel weak and afraid, and you will need ever more power over others to keep the fear at bay. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart-you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out. And so on.
Section 4: Manuscript Reading
Or, of course, if I'm in a more socially conscious form of my
default-setting, I can spend time in the end-of-theday traffic jam being
angry and disgusted at all the huge, stupid, lane-blocking SUVs and
Hummers and V-12 pickup trucks burning their wasteful, selfish,
forty-gallon tanks of gas, and I can dwell on the fact that the
patriotic or religious bumper stickers always seem to be on the biggest,
most disgustingly selfish vehicles driven by the ugliest, most
inconsiderate and aggressive drivers, who are usually talking on cell
phones as they cut people off in order to get just twenty stupid feet
ahead in a traffic jam, and I can think about how our children's
children will despise us for wasting all the future's fuel and probably
screwing up the climate, and how spoiled and stupid and disgusting we
all are, and how it all just sucks, and so on and so forth...
Look, if I choose to think this way, fine, lots of us do-except that thinking this way tends to be so easy and automatic it doesn't have to be a choice. Thinking this way is my natural default-setting. It's the automatic, unconscious way that I experience the boring, frustrating, crowded parts of adult life when I'm operating on the automatic, unconscious belief that I am the center of the world and that my immediate needs and feelings are what should determine the world's priorities. The thing is that there are obviously different ways to think about these kinds of situations. In this traffic, all these vehicles stuck and idling in my way: It's not impossible that some of these people in SUVs have been in horrible auto accidents in the past and now find driving so traumatic that their therapist has all but ordered them to get a huge, heavy SUV so they can feel safe enough to drive; or that the Hummer that just cut me off is maybe being driven by a father whose little child is hurt or sick in the seat next to him, and he's trying to rush to the hospital, and he's in a way bigger, more legitimate hurry than I am-it is actually I who am in his way. And so on.
Look, if I choose to think this way, fine, lots of us do-except that thinking this way tends to be so easy and automatic it doesn't have to be a choice. Thinking this way is my natural default-setting. It's the automatic, unconscious way that I experience the boring, frustrating, crowded parts of adult life when I'm operating on the automatic, unconscious belief that I am the center of the world and that my immediate needs and feelings are what should determine the world's priorities. The thing is that there are obviously different ways to think about these kinds of situations. In this traffic, all these vehicles stuck and idling in my way: It's not impossible that some of these people in SUVs have been in horrible auto accidents in the past and now find driving so traumatic that their therapist has all but ordered them to get a huge, heavy SUV so they can feel safe enough to drive; or that the Hummer that just cut me off is maybe being driven by a father whose little child is hurt or sick in the seat next to him, and he's trying to rush to the hospital, and he's in a way bigger, more legitimate hurry than I am-it is actually I who am in his way. And so on.
Section 3: Manuscript Reading
Anyway, you finally get to the checkout line's front, and pay for
your food, and wait to get your check or card authenticated by a
machine, and then get told to "Have a nice day" in a voice that is the
absolute voice of death, and then you have to take your creepy
flimsy plastic bags of groceries in your cart through the crowded,
bumpy, littery parking lot, and try to load the bags in your car in such
a way that everything doesn't fall out of the bags and roll around in
the trunk on the way home, and then you have to drive all the way home
through slow, heavy, SUV- intensive rush-hour traffic, et cetera, et
cetera.
The point is that petty, frustrating crap like this is exactly where the work of choosing comes in. Because the traffic jams and crowded aisles and long checkout lines give me time to think, and if I don't make a conscious decision about how to think and what to pay attention to, I'm going to be pissed and miserable every time I have to foodshop, because my natural default-setting is the certainty that situations like this are really all about me, about my hungriness and my fatigue and my desire to just get home, and it's going to seem, for all the world, like everybody else is just in my way, and who are all these people in my way? And look at how repulsive most of them are and how stupid and cow-like and dead-eyed and nonhuman they seem here in the checkout line, or at how annoying and rude it is that people are talking loudly on cell phones in the middle of the line, and look at how deeply unfair this is: I've worked really hard all day and I'm starved and tired and I can't even get home to eat and unwind because of all these stupid goddamn people.
The point is that petty, frustrating crap like this is exactly where the work of choosing comes in. Because the traffic jams and crowded aisles and long checkout lines give me time to think, and if I don't make a conscious decision about how to think and what to pay attention to, I'm going to be pissed and miserable every time I have to foodshop, because my natural default-setting is the certainty that situations like this are really all about me, about my hungriness and my fatigue and my desire to just get home, and it's going to seem, for all the world, like everybody else is just in my way, and who are all these people in my way? And look at how repulsive most of them are and how stupid and cow-like and dead-eyed and nonhuman they seem here in the checkout line, or at how annoying and rude it is that people are talking loudly on cell phones in the middle of the line, and look at how deeply unfair this is: I've worked really hard all day and I'm starved and tired and I can't even get home to eat and unwind because of all these stupid goddamn people.
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