TED Prep, Day 5: Talk Throughs and Work Time

Hey everyone!  I'm out today on a grading marathon- if you need me, I'll be checking email sporadically.  If I get your paper done today, I'll email you the rubric feedback at the end of the day, and then give you a hard copy on Monday.  Please follow the directions below carefully.

Guidelines for RE-Submission of your Senior Thesis:
Once you have received your final grade for your paper, you will have the option to rewrite it based on my comments.  Your revised paper grade will REPLACE your original grade.  In order for your re-submission to be accepted, you must follow the guidelines below exactly. 

• Deadline:  ONE WEEK after the day you received your thesis back from me.
• Email/share with me your revised draft
• Submit your draft together with both your previous draft and the graded rubric (put your old draft and rubric in my inbox).
• Your final draft must demonstrate improvement between drafts
• I will not be commenting on revised drafts, and the revised grade will replace your original grade
• Important: Annotations on your final draft  are REQUIRED.  Feel free to highlight, underline, comment, or draw arrows to specific points made, new evidence used, new phrasing etc.  Your final grade depends in a large part on your ability to show growth between drafts in the categories I have outlined in the rubric.  Make it easy for me to see this growth with your annotations.  Even better if your comments are coded to rubric categories

Starter:  Send invitation email to your TED Talk to the following people.  Make sure your email includes a polite salutation, the time and date of your TED Talk, your research question, and a brief description of what they can expect at the TED Talk

1. Family
2. Senior Project Advisor
3. Any other teachers/students you would specifically like to attend
4. CC your Humanities teacher on this email (for credit!)

Initial Feedback and Critique Scheduling
Get into the assigned groups that are on the board.  No matter where you are in your process, you should do the following:

1. Have each person talk through their presentation in turn.  They should address:
   1. What are you thinking about for your presentation?  Where are you right now?
   2. What are you feeling good about right now- where are the strong points?
   3. What are you concerned about?  Where do you need help?
   4. Show the group your slides or your ideas for visual aids, talk them through what they mean.
   5. What kind of help do you need?  Are there questions you have that the group could help you with?
2. After the student talks through their presentation, the group will give informal verbal feedback on their slides and their presentation ideas.
3. The presenter should commit to an area of focus for upcoming work time.

Once every member has talked through their presentations, you should schedule your critiques for Monday and Tuesday of next week.  You can do 2-3/day, as the critique protocol should take 30 minutes.  Write on the board who is being critiqued on what day.

Revise TED Talk Slides and Outline
Take your feedback, make it better!  You’ll need a revised version for formal critiques starting on Monday.

​HOMEWORK:
You need to be ready with a complete presentation (outline of what to say + visuals) by MONDAY.  This should not be a short version of your talk- you should be aiming for the full 15 minutes.