Rubric for Presentations

	Excellent	Very Good	Satisfactory	Min.  Acceptable
Plans and rehearses oral presentations	Clearly rehearsed and thoroughly planned	Planned and rehearsed presentation	Somewhat planned presentation	Reads presentation or is “winging it.”
Uses oral communication techniques (clarity, volume, eye contact, body language, engagement with topic and audience)	Speaks clearly, expressively, with appropriate volume. Frequent eye contact with audience members around the room. Body language shows good engagement.	Speaks clearly and with appropriate volume. Frequent eye contact. Body language shows some engagement.	Speaks clearly or with appropriate volume. Some eye contact.	Body language shows limited engagement. Speech unclear or quiet.

Project Time (Wednesday and Thursday)

Wednesday:

1. Silent reading
2. Tutorial- work on homework. If caught up, work on project research.

Overdue Chapter 3 & 4 Questions:

• Samia
• Ryan M
• Courtney
• Denae

• Aidan
• Gage
• Brittany
• Kayli
• Julia

3. Project Time: Your task is to find one good source for your research. It may be a website, book, youtube video etc. Please fill out the information on your "Exploration Project Source List". You should have two sources filled in completely by Friday.

4. Metacognition and Goals: Develop rubric for goal setting. 

Thursday:

1. Silent reading

2. Guided binder cleanup. Please bring all your binders and papers to class!

3. Project time: Finish up notes on first source. Work on finding second source and filling in notes sheet.  

Project Proposal Form: Due by Friday

Please fill out the following project proposal form:

Exploration Project Proposal

Name: _____________________________________

Curriculum Strand:

Topic I want to study:

What am I going to explore?  My guiding question:

What do I need to know to answer this question? My sub-questions:

Ideas for a product I am considering:

Research source I have found:

 Here is the example Beth did:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/twjmhey0hxikpd5/Beth%20Exploration%20Proposal.pdf