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Please give a 3-5 minute news cast covering the bombing of the church discussed in The Watson's go to Birmingham.

Students create a 1-2 minute commercial based on the chapters they are assigned and the cereal box they made for it.

Oral communication is a prepared, purposeful presentation designed to increase knowledge, to foster understanding, or to promote change in the listeners' attitudes, values, beliefs, or behaviors. Oral communication takes many forms. This rubric is specifically designed to evaluate oral presentations of a single speaker at a time and is best applied to live or video-recorded presentations. For panel presentations or group presentations, it is recommended that each speaker be evaluated separately. This rubric best applies to presentations of sufficient length such that a central message is conveyed, supported by one or more forms of supporting materials and includes a purposeful organization. An oral answer to a single question not designed to be structured into a presentation does not readily apply to this rubric.

Students will present in groups a news broadcast of a natural disaster that they have researched. They will provide specific facts and details, show an understanding of logical and chronological order through the sequence of events. The presentation should show creativity, organization, equal group member participation.

Rubric to use with "Reporting Live from Boston" lesson plan. Students must perform a news cast of historical events in Boston 1763-1770's.

Make 2-3 puppets to use in retelling a scene from your book. Presentation should be 3-6 minutes in length. Puppets should be original and imaginative. Be creative and remember to practice your show!