ELA10 - Spoken Language (2 credit), CSS, Seipp

Learning Target (Curricular Competencies): Recognize and appreciate how different forms, formats, structures, and features of texts enhance and shape meaning and impact.  Explore appropriate spoken language formats for intended purposes.

Task:

Now re-watch the video you selected in the previous lesson and discuss the performance techniques used to enhance meaning. This can be done in paragraph form or point form. Include a short quote from the video for each technique that you identify. 

Performance Techniques (including non-verbal behaviors)

• vary the volume, pitch, and tempo of your voice (enunciate clearly and exaggerate expression)
• pitch is useful to use when expressing emotion.  Our pitch rises when we are excited and lowers when we are sad.
• use your face, body, and gestures (let your body speak)
• make your body and face respond to the tale
• have a clear focus and maintain concentration
• maintain engaging eye contact with the audience/individual listeners
• create a charismatic presence (make the audience believe in you)
• use different, exaggerate character voices
• use your space/be dynamic
• remember to pace yourself
• always remember to regain your style as narrator
• use silence and pauses to add dramatic effect

Telling a Story

• map the plot as a memory technique (Remember the plot diagram?)
• use story skeletons to help you remember the key events
• think of the plot as a film or a series of connected images
• tell yourself the story in your own words
• create your version of the story (adapt and improvise)
• retell it numerous times until it feels like a story

 

Assessment:  Below you will find the exemplary criteria used to assess the assignment.  

Learning Target: (Exemplary 6/6): Exemplary comprehension of the task and clear accomplishment of the objective.  Student demonstrates exemplary active reading skills to comprehend and respond to text in personal, creative, and critical ways.  All activities are complete. Ideas generated are thoughtful and unique.

Written Expression:  Exemplary (6/6):  Sentence structure and vocabulary are varied, skillfully written, and carefully chosen.  Work has been proofread and there are few or no errors in spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and grammar.  Content contributes to the central idea and makes insightful connections with logical organization.

Submission: 

Use the "3.2 Meaning From Performance" link on the main page of this section of the course to upload your assignment to your teacher for marking.