English 8 – S.S.R.

Book Talk Assessment

Presenter Name:

Presentation Audience:

Voice Posture / Gestures

Strong, Confident Standing straight, facing audience, no

Appropriate Volume and Pace (Speed) distracting movement
Some pauses for effect Some hand gestures used for emphasis

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Eyes Attitude

Appropriate scanning of the audience Attitude appropriate for the type of public
Eye contact held with most members of the speaking and content.
audience
Minimal reading of material Confident, positive, potentially passionate

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Did the presentation last TWO full minutes? Yes / No

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Title
Author
Citation
Visual
- Significant - Most or all - All elements
number of elements included and
elements not included. insightfully
Fiction Elements included or Analysis may be analyzed.
analyzed limited.
sufficiently.

- Book is not - Book is - Book is

adequately summarized. thoughtfully
Non-Fiction summarized or May not meet summarized.
Paragraph does not meet length
length requirement.
requirement.

- insufficient - Learning - Thoughtful,

number of extensions insightful learning
learning presented, but extensions
Learning extensions, or may be limited in presented.
extensions may description.
Extensions
be minimally
described.

- Unacceptable - Acceptable - Evident and

presentation. presentation. effective care,
- Minimal evidence - Mostly neat and attention, and
of care and free of error. creativity.
attention. - Presentation is
Presentation
- Significant neat and nearly
number of free of error.
grammatical and
mechanical
errors.