The second quarter requires us to examine the importance of theme and rhetoric in literature as well as in our media. In your assigned groups you will prepare for a presentation that will spotlight a unified theme in order to coordinate and emphasize the American icons that each person has selected. Your presentation should incorporate and emphasize rhetorical devices in order to influence your audience.
| Performance Indicators for the American Icon Speech:
P.S ELA-3 Reading Craft and Structure: Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is particularly effective, analyzing how style and content contribute to the power, persuasiveness or beauty of a text. P.S. ELA-7 Speaking and Listening: Engage effectively in a well-reasoned exchange of ideas |
American Icon Speech Presentation Grade
Once your group has determined a theme you will then need to locate a twenty-five line minimum speech by/about your icon that expresses the importance of your icon to American culture and ideally to your group theme. A standard line generally includes twenty syllables or more. The speech must be prose, thus songs or poems about your icon are not permitted. You will introduce the significance of your selected speech to the class during the group icon presentation and then you are to recite the speech emphasizing the passion/spirit intended by the selection of the speech. Your speech may be presented live or recorded.
| Performance Indicators for the American Icon Presentation/Timeline:
P.S ELA-2 Reading Analysis: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain. P.S ELA-3 Reading Craft and Structure: Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is particularly effective, analyzing how style and content contribute to the power, persuasiveness or beauty of a text. |
American Icon Presentation/Timeline Presentation Grade
You also need to prepare a montage about your icon that will be featured during your group presentation. These facts should serve to strengthen the group’s expressed theme rather than your personal thesis for your eventual junior research paper.
The presentation will also feature a timeline that reveals your theme along with images from the collective icons that serve to promote the group’s theme. The timeline serves as the centerpiece of the group collaborative effort
The presentation should be informative and entertaining. Standing in front of the class expressing facts about your icon has limited appeal. Determine along with your group members the most desirable way to interest and inform your classmates according to the rhetorical devices. Music, interviews, film clips and other forms of media are often helpful. The presentation, including the individual speeches, should not extend beyond forty minutes.
Group Responsibilities:
1. Establish a written theme for the group.
2. Locate and print 3-5 depictions of your individual icon to include on your group timeline.
3. Construct the timeline as the centerpiece of your presentation.
4. Create a keynote or another interesting means of presenting your information.
5. Orchestrate the presentation.
6. Present your speech.
