Book Soundtrack Rubric CATEGORY 10-9 8 7 6-0 TOTAL Delivery of Speaks clearly. Always Speaks clearly most of the Speaks clearly rarely. Often mumbles or Presentation maintains eye contact. time. Almost always Sometimes makes eye cannot be (Speaking and Avoids filler words maintains eye contact. contact. Uses filler understood. Eye Listening) (uhm, like, ok, etc.) Avoids filler words with words. contact is minimal. minor exceptions. Uses many filler X .5 words. Lack of practice and preparation is evident. Introduction *Exceptionally creative *Interesting hook. Attempt at a hook, but it *No hook or (Speaking and hook. *Gave a clear may be unoriginal, opening. X .5 Listening) *Left audience thinking recommendation of the uninteresting, or unclear. *No and interested. book. A reason for the *Gave a recommendation AND Thoughtful recommendation is recommendation may provided or it is – Conclusion recommendation for a provided. Book talk ends be missing a specific weak. No clear (Speaking and target audience is abruptly. audience or no clear ending provided. Listening) given with a clear reason provided. No reason. clear ending provided. Content/ Songs were a Adequate song selection. Fewer than 10 songs 5 or fewer songs Songs thoughtful selection Lacked some specificity to were selected and/ or and/ or obvious Information and clearly connected their connection to the lacked adequate that the presenter (Writing) to specific aspects of novel. connection to the novel. had not read the the novel book. No organization. Insufficient. X 1 Song Explained the Had explanations. The Had explanations. It may Had explanations Explanations significance of the explanation of meaningful appear random. The OR did not read a (Writing) songs thoughtfully and connection is somewhat significance is unclear. passage. No clear clearly. unclear. connection to Explanations were anything. X 1 easily understood and
Book Soundtrack Rubric CATEGORY 10-9 8 7 6-0 TOTAL Delivery of Presentation (Speaking and Listening) Speaks clearly. Always maintains eye contact. Avoids filler words (uhm, like, ok, etc.) Speaks clearly most of the time. Almost always maintains eye contact. Avoids filler words with minor exceptions. Speaks clearly rarely. Sometimes makes eye contact. Uses filler words. Often mumbles or cannot be understood. Eye contact is minimal. Uses many filler words. Lack of practice and preparation is evident. X .5 Introduction (Speaking and Listening) AND Conclusion (Speaking and Listening) *Exceptionally creative hook. *Left audience thinking and interested. Thoughtful recommendation for a target audience is given with a clear reason. *Interesting hook. *Gave a clear recommendation of the book. A reason for the recommendation is provided. Book talk ends abruptly. Attempt at a hook, but it may be unoriginal, uninteresting, or unclear. *Gave a recommendation – may be missing a specific audience or no clear reason provided. No clear ending provided. *No hook or opening. *No recommendation provided or it is weak. No clear ending provided. X .5 Content/ Songs Information (Writing) Songs were a thoughtful selection and clearly connected to specific aspects of the novel Adequate song selection. Lacked some specificity to their connection to the novel. Fewer than 10 songs were selected and/ or lacked adequate connection to the novel. 5 or fewer songs and/ or obvious that the presenter had not read the book. No organization. Insufficient. X 1 Song Explanations (Writing) Explained the significance of the songs thoughtfully and clearly. Explanations were easily understood and Had explanations. The explanation of meaningful connection is somewhat unclear. Had explanations. It may appear random. The significance is unclear. Had explanations OR did not read a passage. No clear connection to anything. X 1