Journal Entry- April 7-10, 2008

Aim: Students will begin their biography research and power point for their presentation.

Objectives:
1. To give a presentation that provides a clear understanding of the speaker’s life, ambitions, contribution to protest, objectives of protest, and their protest targeted (whom or what is being protested.)
2. To give a fully recited speech with minimum, if any, dependency on prompts that clearly defines the speaker’s contribution to protest, objectives of protest, & their protest targeted (whom or what is being protested.)
3. To have a clear understanding of the speaker’s style, attitude, and protest objective and to demonstrate this through the recited speech.

Task: To present, through public speaking, a biography and a 1 ½ minute speech from a selected speaker firmly noted & influential in the American historical & literary protest tradition.
Procedure:
1. To first present a biography that highlights the speaker’s ambitions, accomplishment, & contribution to protest. You have two options to do present this: Blog page or Power Point using 5 sections or 5 slides for each medium. Each section or slide must have the necessary headers Biography (included on cover page), ambitions, accomplishments, contribution to protest, works cited. Your presentation time limit is 1.5 mins.
2. To research, select, & recite a speech from the speaker that is at LEAST 1 ½ (one & a half) minutes in duration that involves specific protest of a specifc issue.

Rubric: 20 Pts
Demonstration of proper research & information. (4pts)
How well presentation and speech are organized and presented. (4pts)
Articulation: clarity of speech, voice projection, attention to the audience. (4pts)
Ability to capture the speaker’s persona, attitude, style, etc. (6pts)
Creativity. (2pts)

Any speech, which demonstrates a lack of memorization and a dependency on reading or prompt cards, will receive an immediate zero(0) grade.

Speeches that do not reach nor meet time criteria (1 ½ minutes) will receive a severe deduction and, or, risk an immediate zero (0) grade.