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 Presentations - TOMORROW

Oedipus Rex

Prologue: A monologue or dialogue preceding the entry of the chorus, which presents the tragedy's topic or theme.

Parodos: (Entrance Ode) Refers to the section of the play following the prologue, in which the chorus enters chanting or singing verses.

Odes - Refers to songs sung by the chorus throughout the play. There are two sections:
1) Strophe: (turn) A stanza in which the chorus moves in one direction
2) Antistrophe:(counter-turn) A stanza in which the chorus moves in the opposite direction

Exodus: (Exit Song) Refers to the section of the play in which the chorus leaves chanting or singing.

Chorus: 12-15 actors. The chorus comments on themes, and shows how an ideal audience might react to the drama. It also can represent the general city or town people within a story.


Introduction to Greek Tragedy

 

 

 

5) THE PRESENTATION:  3 minutes—this should be an overview of your project and what you learned.  It should include a visual aid. 

Scoring Rubric for Presentation:

4 – Presentation is more than 3 minutes and contains more than 1 visual.  Presentation offers analysis on the book and an evaluation on the student’s learning.

3 – Presentation is at least 3 minutes and contains at least 1 visual aid.  Presentation offers insight on the student learning.

2 – Presentation is less than 3 minutes, could be missing a visual aid and/or might not offer insight into the student’s learning.

1 – Presentation is very short, could be missing a visual aid (or visual aid is most of the presentation), and/or fails to offer any insight into the student’s learning.

ORAL RUBRIC

Criteria	Exceeds Standard (4)	Meets Standard (3)	Needs Improvement (2)
Volume: How well you can be heard	Voice is loud and clear without the student yelling.  All words are heard.  Student projects words from their diaphragm.	Voice is loud throughout most of presentation.  One or more words might be lost because of projection of volume, but the idea is still clear.	Voice fades in places so that the listener loses or misses parts of the presentation, or parts of the idea
Pronunciation: How well you say all your words	Words are pronounced perfectly and sentences flow off of tongue	The speaker trips in one or two places either in the pronunciation of a word or in reading a sentence.  The presentation is effected only slightly by the mistakes.	The speaker trips in quite a few places.  The presentation is effected more than slightly by the mistakes.   Mistakes either make the presentation hard to listen to or cloud the ideas of the writing
Tone: Do you vary how you say your sentences	Speaker as Actor:  The speaker’s delivery makes the writing come alive by giving it emotion, character, emphasis, by breathing life into it	Speaker varies most of sentences to express emotion or to emphasis importance of parts, but there are still places when the speaker spoke in a lifeless monotone	Speaker speaks in a monotone that reveals no emotion or does not emphasis any importance on any idea
UHMS or AHS	NONE	1 or 2 but the uhms or ahs do not distract the presentation	3 or more uhms or ahs
Eye Contact: do you look at your audience	The speaker made a point to look at everyone in the room and rarely looked as if they were reading from a paper	Some eye contact is made, but mostly the presenter read off of his or her paper	Little or no eye contact.