ENG 112: Prof. Kerrigan Oral Presentations – Poetry Analysis Ø This speech will be graded by the instructor according to the Evaluation Criteria Ø This speech should be 5-7 minutes in length. No visual aids are permitted. Ø An outline and bibliography must also be submitted when you present (bring two copies to class – one for yourself to use, the other for me to use). This is worth an additional 25 points on top of the 50 points earned for your actual presentation. Ø These speeches will be held on Wednesday, November 12, Friday, November 14, Monday, November 17, and Wednesday, November 19. We will draft our order of presentations in advance; everyone is expected to be prepared on the first day of presentations. Makeups will only be allowed for excused absences (valid medical/emergency reasons) that are communicated in advance; students who are unprepared or absent when we get to their number will be first up the next day of presentations and will be assessed a 10% penalty to their grade. Wednesday, November 19 is the final day for presentations. You are expected to be present and be prepared each day of presentations. Assignment: Present a three-part presentation: 1) a brief biography of the poet, (approx. 1 ½ - 2 minutes) 2) read a poem of his/hers, and (approx. 1 minute – times will vary) 3) offer an analytical perspective of the selected poem. (approx. 2 - 3 minutes) Outside research is required. Use the poetry criticism databases available through the library. If you use open-internet sources, make sure that they are credible. Since this is an oral presentation and not a paper – you will submit an outline of the ideas you will cover (do NOT turn in a paper), and a bibliography (list the sources you used in proper MLA formatting). These items must be typed and submitted in hard-copy on Wednesday, November 12. We will select the poems, and the order of presentations in class on Friday, October 31. You will gain one full class period (Monday, November 10) as a work day. The Impact: Per the course syllabus, your presentation is worth 10% of your final grade. -1- Remember when presenting your speech: ü Stay within the time guidelines ü Speak loudly and clearly (so that everyone can hear and understand you) ü Don’t read verbatim from your notes ü Maintain eye contact with your audience (and look around the room at different audience members, don’t ignore a section of the audience) Remember when others are presenting: ü Show common courtesy and respect ü Do not fall asleep, work on other assignments, make rude comments, noises, etc. ü Do not get up and leave the room or enter the room ü Keep all cell phones off and away ü Poets and Poem Combos Available to Select: Poet Emily Dickinson Poem “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” “I Felt a Funeral in my Brain” “The Soul Selects Her Own Society” “Success is Counted Sweetest” Robert Frost “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” “Desert Places” “Birches” “After Apple Picking” Thomas Hardy “The Man He Killed” “Channel Firing” William Shakespeare “Sonnet 55” “Sonnet 130” “Sonnet 18” William Wordsworth “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above…” “Daffodils” “The Solitary Reaper” William Blake “The Lamb” “The Tyger” Robert Burns “A Red, Red Rose” Lewis Carroll “Jabberwocky” E.E. Cummings “next to of course god America I” “anyone lived in a pretty how town” John Donne “Holy Sonnet 14” “A Valediction” “Holy Sonnet 10” -2- Page in text 545 811 815 815 548 741 844 843 548 617 555 628 663 557 595 710 581 647 648 581 584 895 585 649 897 A.E. Housman Edwin Arlington Robinson Theordore Roethke Elizabeth Barrett Browning Samuel Taylor Coleridge T.S. Eliot “To an athlete dying young” “When I was one-and-twenty” 585 913 “Richard Cory” “Dolor” “My Papa’s Waltz” “The Waking” 590 591 706 751 “Sonnets from the Portuguese, Number 14” 611 “Sonnets from the Portuguese, Number 43” 892 “Kubla Kahn” “Preludes” “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” Gerard Manley Hopkins Ezra Pound “Spring” “In a Station of the Metro” “A Girl” John Keats “To Autumn” “Ode to a Nightingale” “Ode on a Grecian Urn” Walt Whitman “Facing West from California’s Shores” “I Hear America Singing” “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” Robert Browning “My Last Duchess” Langston Hughes “Theme for English B” “Harlem” “The Weary Blues” Sharon Olds “The Planned Child” Robert Pinsky “Dying” William Butler Yeats “When You are Old” “The Second Coming” Dylan Thomas “Do Not Go Gentle Into the Good Night” Andrew Marvell “To His Coy Mistress” Sylvia Plath “Daddy” “Mirror” Amy Lowell “Patterns” Alfred Lord Tennyson“Break, Break, Break” Countee Cullen “Yet Do I Marvel” Elizabeth Bishop “Sestina” Bob Dylan “The Times They Are a-Changin” Edna St. Vincent “Travel” Millay Dorothy Parker “Afternoon” Adrienne Rich “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” “Living in Sin” -3- 612 613 900 620 627 933 654 745 914 667 949 730 892 861 856 862 702 703 713 792 752 784 870 877 921 664 692 737 899 924 928 934 934 Student Name: Speech Topic: Grading Criteria for Speeches Each of the following 10 points will be graded on a 5 point scale (5 being excellent) – making your speech worth a total of 50 points (so to translate to a percentage grade, double the number). 1. Extemporaneous versus read. Was the speech extemporaneous or read verbatim? Did the mode of delivery seem effective? 2. Volume. Was the speaker loud enough? Or too loud? 3. Pace. Was the speech given at the proper speed? 4. Articulation. Were the words clearly enunciated? 5. Audience Awareness. Did the speaker code-shift appropriately for the audience and situation? Were you able to understand what the speaker said? Did the speaker’s comments seem to reach out to the audience and include its members? Was the speech formal enough for a classroom presentation? 6. Body language. a. Posture. Did the speaker hold him/herself in a way which seemed poised, relaxed, and confident? Or if the speaker had some other affect, such as tense, or excited, or angry, etc., did that style seem appropriate to the occasion? b. Gestures. Did the speaker use any hand gestures? Were they helpful or distracting? 7. Eye contact with the audience. Did the speaker look at the audience? 8. Organization of speech. Was the speech put together in a logical order? 9. Evidence of Preparation. Was it evident that the speaker was adequately prepared? Was the speech within the time guidelines? 10. Content. Was it clear that the speaker understood the material? Did the speaker cover major ideas? -4-
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