ELD Oral Presentation-Speaking Performance Task Quarter 2, SY STUDENT

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1 Student Directions ELD all levels Grades 7-12 Oral Presentation-Speaking Performance Task Quarter 2, SY Part 1a. ELD, All levels, Grades 7-12 Collaborative and Interpretive Work Your assignment: Every year there are many new innovations in the world. Examples of innovations can be found in transportation, such as hybrid or electric cars. Some innovations we rely on in our day-to-day life such as: appliances that reduce our time spent on chores like robotic vacuum cleaners and microwave ovens or medical innovations like new medicines, treatments, or procedures. Other innovations just make our life more enjoyable, such as entertainment innovations like: social media sites, wireless devices, and computer generated special effects. You are a student who will describe in an oral presentation an innovation that has most affected your life so far. Identify and describe the innovation and inform your audience about the impact of this innovation on your life. What would your life be like without this innovation? Is it an innovation that everyone has world-wide or is it an innovation you have used since coming to the United States? Your oral presentation should be between 3 to 5 minutes, in English, and you may use gestures, media, and visual aids. Your audience is your classmates and teacher. Steps you will be following: In order to plan and compose your essay, you will do all of the following: 1. Brainstorm innovations with your class and teacher. You may use the attached chart to take notes. 2. Decide which innovation you will write about and think of its impact or influence on your life. 3. Answer (oral and written) three constructed response questions about the effect of this innovation on your life. a. Discuss your responses with a partner. Think of examples, details and how your life is different because of this innovation. 4. Read the Oral Presentation Rubric with your partner. 5. Plan and write your oral Practice your speech with a partner or small group. Directions for beginning: Constructed-Response Questions Answer the questions below. Explain in detail to your partner. Write down examples to add to your speech. Use more paper if needed to plan out your speech. 1. What is the innovation? Who created, discovered, or promotes this innovation and why? What is the purpose of this innovation in your day-to-day life? Explain: My innovation is important because... discovered/created in order to How is your life different because of this innovation? How are other people s lives affected by this innovation? My life is different because of Is your innovation commonly available? Which countries or societies consider this innovation as part of their day-today life? Which countries or societies do not have access to this innovation on a daily basis?

2 Part 1b. Oral Presentation Productive and Independent You will now review your notes and sources, plan, draft, and revise your oral You may also refer to the answers you wrote to the questions in part 1, but you cannot change those answers. Now read your assignment and the information about how your oral presentation will be scored, then begin your work. Your Assignment: You are a student who will describe in an oral presentation an innovation that has most affected your life so far. Identify and describe the innovation and inform your audience about the impact of this innovation on your life. What would your life be like without this innovation? Is it an innovation that everyone has world-wide or is it an innovation you have used since coming to the United States? Your oral presentation should be between 3 to 5 minutes, in English, and you may use gestures, media, and visual aids. Your audience is your classmates and teacher.support your claim with evidence and details. How your oral presentation will be scored: The people scoring your product will be assigning scores for : 1. Presentation: o Statement of purpose/focus how well you clearly state your claim on the topic without notes, maintain your focus and eye contact with the audience, and address the theme of change as it relates to your experience; o Elaboration of evidence how well you provide evidence from sources about the innovation and elaborate with specific information, and use media, visuals and gestures to deliver your message to your audience. 2. Speaking Mechanics: o Language and Vocabulary how well you effectively orally express ideas using precise language, pacing and tone that is appropriate for your audience and purpose; o Organization how well your ideas logically flow from the introduction to conclusion of your oral presentation using effective transitions, formal register, and English, and how well you stay on topic throughout the oral presentation; 3. Content: o Your presentation has a complete and accurate opening and closing; o Your spoken grammar and word choice make the presentation easy to understand; o Your central idea is clearly understood and completely supported with details and examples for both the text(s) and your experience. 4. Visual/Graphics: o Written Conventions - how well you follow the rules of usage, grammar, spelling, capitalization, etc. in any media or visual aids you use in your oral o How well your use of gestures, facial expressions, media, visuals and graphics completely and accurately support and enhance the oral Now begin work on your product. Manage your time carefully so that you can: plan your oral presentation write your oral presentation revise and edit for a final draft practice speaking, enunciating and pronouncing, and using appropriate gestures for your oral presentation chose and integrate media and visual aids, as appropriate use appropriate eye contact and good facial expressions. speak in an extremely confident manner and be prepared. fully engage all members of the audience by memorizing as much as you can and use visual aids and gestures to enhance or add to your speech.

3 Use this chart to write down some innovations. You make write new headings also. Innovations and Areas of Impact Taken from: Health Cultural Productivity Water Disinfection System by Ashok Gadgil 1992 World Wide Web by Tim Berners-Lee 1989 ipod by Tony Fadell 2000s Blood Bank by Charles Drew 1940 ebooks by Michael Hart 1971 Velcro by George de Mestral 1948 Karaoke Machine by Daisuke Inoue 1971 Apple Personal Computer by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak 1976 Microwave Oven by Percy LeBaron Spencer 1948 ROOMBA robotic vacuum by Helen Greiner 2002

4 Part 2. ELD Oral Presentation-Speaking Performance Task Quarter 2, SY STUDENT You will independently deliver your oral presentation/speech to the teacher and a small group or to the teacher and the whole class. The teacher will score your oral presentation using the rubric that you used for practicing your speech. Remember : 10 Tips for Public Speaking 1. Know your material. Pick a topic you are interested in. Know more about it than you include in your speech. Use humor, personal stories and conversational language that way you won t easily forget what to say. 2. Practice. Practice. Practice! Rehearse out loud; Practice, pause and breathe. Practice with a timer and allow time for the unexpected. Speak loudly enough to be heard by everyone in the room! 3. Know the audience. Smile! It s easier to speak to a group of friends than to strangers. 4. Know the room. Practice using any visual aids where you will be standing for your speech. 5. Relax. Pause, smile and count to three before saying anything. ("One one-thousand, two one-thousand, three onethousand. Pause. Begin.) Transform nervous energy into enthusiasm. Be excited to deliver your speech. 6. Visualize yourself giving your speech. Imagine yourself speaking, your voice loud, clear and confident. Visualize the audience clapping it will boost your confidence. 7. Realize that people want you to succeed. Audiences want you to be interesting, stimulating, informative and entertaining. Everyone has to deliver a speech so remember that everyone is also nervous! Support eachother. 8. Don t apologize for any nervousness or problem the audience probably never noticed it. Do not giggle, laugh, or say things that are not in your speech. 9. Concentrate on the message. Focus on your message and your audience. Be confident. You will do a great job! 10. Gain experience. Your speech should represent you as an authority and as a person. Experience builds confidence. Redacted from : Accessed: 20 August 2013.

5 Oral Presentation Rubric Grades 7-12 ELD All Levels CRITERIA 4 points Mastery 3 points Proficient 2 points Development 1 point Inadequate PRESENTATION Appropriate eye contact and good facial Usually makes eye contact. Some but inadequate eye contact Never or rarely makes eye contact. expressions. Confident and Lacking some confidence and Lacking confidence and Extremely confident and prepared. somewhat prepared. not prepared. prepared. Adequately engages Holds together despite nerves No audience engagement. Fully engages all the audience. and engages the audience. Reading directly from members of the Glances at notes to Constantly looking at notes notes. audience. guide and interrupts flow of Does not use any notes while presenting. SPEAKING MECHANICS Volume and tone are always appropriate. Volume and tone are appropriate. Volumes and tone are sometimes appropriate. Volume and tone are inappropriate. Speaker clearly conveys his/her message. Speaker conveys his/her message. Speaker is difficult to hear and the listener must Difficult to hear, barely comprehensible. Message is presented Message is presented interpret the message. with appropriate pauses and contributes to overall presentation s flow. with some appropriate pauses. Speech is choppy and hard to follow. CONTENT Complete and accurate opening and closing. Grammar and word choice make the presentation easy to understand. Central idea is clearly understood and completely supported with details and examples. Only one or two errors in the opening and closing. Few errors in grammar and word choice. Central ideas is understood and supported with details. Some errors in the opening and closing. Occasional errors in grammar and word choice. Central idea is not fully developed. Many errors in opening or closing. Grammar and word choice make the presentation hard to understand. Central idea is not clear. VISUALS/GRAPHICS Visuals and graphics completely and accurately support and enhance the Visuals and graphics adequately support the Visuals and graphics provide limited support of No visuals or graphics. Visuals and graphics unrelated to topic. SUHSD ELD Oral Presentation/Speaking Quarter 2 Performance Task (SY )