SLAMFEST CHECKLIST

1. Highlight the persuasive techniques and rhetorical devices in your poem.

2. Use the following CHECKLIST to check your individual work before you submit your slam for
evaluation.
3. Have a peer provide you with additional feedback in a different colour.
Criteria
One controlling idea,
message, or theme is
presented

SelfEvaluated
Level
4 3 2 1 R

Message has depth and

complexity

4 3 2 1 R

Shows creativity and

originality

4 3 2 1 R

Communicates with an
appropriate level of language
(who is your audience?)

4 3 2 1 R

Choice of images and words

show a sense of audience and
purpose

4 3 2 1 R

Vocal work enhances meaning

of poem (incl. rate of speech,
pacing, pitch, pause)

4 3 2 1 R

Physicality including gestures, 4 3 2 1 R

body placement, and/or
choreography supports vocal
work
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