Novel Response and Goal Setting

1. Write a paragraph explaining your reaction to the book you have been reading. You should discuss weather or not the teenager character is believable based on your own experiences and knowledge of teenagers. This will be marked using the learning goal "Explains and supports personal responses to reading by making connections to prior knowledge and experiences" and with the updated "Basics" rubric. You must write in proper paragraph format (intro sentence, proof and explanation, closing sentence). Include the title and author of the book.

2. Goal setting: go into your Goal setting doc and update it based on your last oral presentation. Write your name on the board when you are done.

3. Work on your essay for your rant. You should have your intro done and be well onto you second paragraph.

Oral Presentation Goal Setting

Hi class,

You have now signed up for your first 1-minute wonder. Before you present, I would like you to think about setting some goals for oral presentations this year. I would also like you to evaluate your goals withing 1 week of your presentation.

Please copy the following document into your NLC folder and complete the goal setting.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YNjQbL5CQEtqcbWNjzsncGOAurtNBwwsB3cqYPsDnhA/edit?usp=sharing

Remember, these are your general oral presentation learning goals.

	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, monitor audience reaction)	Speaks clearly, expressively, with appropriate volume. Frequent eye contact with audience members around the room. Body language shows good engagement. Monitors audience to check for understanding/make adjustments	Speaks clearly and with appropriate volume. Frequent eye contact. Body language shows engagement.	Speaks clearly or with appropriate volume. Some eye contact.	Body language shows limited engagement. Speech unclear or quiet.