Book Talk Exemplary Average Unsatisfactory

Rubric 20-17 16-14 13-0

Content The presentation contains all necessary The presentation contains all requirements but The presentation is missing elements or does not
requirements with insightful, complete may lack insight and/or focus on reading as a attempt to focus on reading as a means to
information that focuses on reading as a means to enhance one's own writing. enhance one's own writing.
Standard: ELA11W1, means to enhance one's own writing:
LSV2 1. A title slide (title, author, genre, your
name)
2. Other works by the author
3. Basic autobiographical elements
4. The author's voice
5. A conflict the author overcame
6. Life lessons from the author
5. Memorable quotes/passages related to
our study
6. Who should read it & why
7. Elements that could apply to others'
writing

Presentation The presentation is clearly organized, The presentation is organized and is easy to The presentation lacks organization and/or is
(Slide layout, flows well, and is easy to follow. The follow. The student has used some creative difficult to follow. While some attempt may have
graphics, student has used creative layouts, layouts, graphics, fonts, transitions, and sounds been made to incorporate creative layouts,
graphics, fonts, transitions, and sounds to to capture and sustain the audience's attention, graphics, fonts, transitions, and/or sounds, little
transitions,
capture and sustain the audiences but some parts of the presentation do not flow consideration of audience is evident OR the
sound) attention. well or have limited effects. student make little to no attempt to enhance the
Standard: ELA11LSV2 presentation.

Conventions
Standard: ELA11W1, C1
The presentation has no major
conventional errors (fragments, run-ons,
subject-verb agreement, pronoun-
antecedent agreement) and no distracting
spelling errors.
The presentation has no more than one major The presentation has multiple major conventional
conventional error and any spelling errors to not errors and/or a pattern of distracting spelling
distract the audience from the content of the errors that distract the audience from the
presentation. content of the presentation.

ELA12LSV2 Communication/Visual/Oral Texts/MediaThe student formulates reasoned judgments about written and oral communication in various media genres. The student delivers focused, coherent, and polished
presentations. The student creates and enhances presentations and documents using appropriate elements and principles of design. (Examples might include repetition of a limited number of colors, fonts, or patterns,
continuity of placement of elements, inclusion of images and sounds, etc.). The student uses technology tools to convey information and ideas, communicate, and collaborate at all levels from interpersonal to global.
ELA11W1 Organizational StructureThe student produces writing that establishes an appropriate organizational structure, sets a context and engages the reader, maintains a coherent focus throughout, and signals a
satisfying closure.
ELA11C1 Usage/GrammarThe student demonstrates understanding and control of the rules of the English language, realizing that usage involves the appropriate application of conventions and grammar in both written
and spoken formats.