Students in AP Seminar have two tasks today—tasks I expect you to do individually and quietly (the group work will be on Tuesday and Thursday):

1)    read through the websites I posted at the left about presentations

2)      troll through YouTube looking for students presentations. The goal is to identify one that is poor, scoring mostly 2s and one that is exemplary, scoring on the high end—4s and 6s (according to the Group Presentation rubric—dark green, spiral-bound rubric sets are behind my desk on the file cabinets). You need to copy the URL of the “poor” and the “exemplary” student presentation videos (topic doesn’t matter, as long as it is clearly school-appropriate) into a Google doc so that we can discuss them on Tuesday. You should have actually assigned scores for each rubric row, and have reasons why, in your journals.

This activity should take the entirety of the period (minus the last 5 min for cleanup)and should be a silent activity. Students should be prepared to defend the scoring of the presentations they selected on Tuesday. 

For Tuesday, Nov. 7, each group will have a rough draft of their presentation outline, including:

• thesis
• intended audience
• specific quotes from specific sources you will reference in your presentation
• clear structure: cause/effect or comparison/contrast or definition/informative

Final drafts of outlines are due on Thursday, Nov. 9--halfway through class (plan to submit one copy for the group via email). 

Presentations will be on Nov. 16th and should be no shorter than 7 min, no longer than 10 min (8 min goal).