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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. Courtesy of AAC&U: http://aacu.org/value/index.cfm

For Black History Month, students are to research and write a 2-3 page biography on important historical figure. These biographies include information on the person's early life, what contributions they made to society, 2-3 interesting or unique facts about the person, and the students own reflections about the person and their contributions and what they have learned. In addition to a 2-3 page paper, the students are required to make something that represents their person. The students will be presenting their person and object to the class. They will have to speak to the class about their person in a 2-3 minutes presentation. Flash cards may be used during presentation. The students are not expected to read their two to three page papers word for word.