Module 4: A Thousand Voices - Discovering Poetry and Short Stories

Instructions

Create a dramatic recording of your reading of the excerpt from As You Like It on page 247 of your Sightlines 10 textbook. Use your notes from Section Assignment 4.1C to guide your reading. Contact your teacher to find out the best way to submit your reading.

Dramatic! Bring energy and emotion to the words that you read. Make sure that your audience knows what you are feeling.

Effective! Use your voice to make your audience feel - fluctuate your volume, pitch, and rate of speech.

Entertaining! Your lively performance can make your audience laugh, cry…

Read the Dramatic Reading Scoring Guide before you record your oral presentation.

Click on the pdf icon to view the Scoring Guide.

Dramatic Reading Scoring Guide

Step 1: Prepare your reading based on the notes created in the previous section assignment.

Step 2: Practise, practise practise! Read the excerpt to a partner and get feedback for improvement.

Step 3: Record the excerpt. Play it back and give yourself a mark out of four based on the evaluation guide. Then, make some final adjustments.

Step 4: Rerecord - submit this final recording to your teacher for evaluation.

How to Do a First Class Audio Recording

1) Set up a new Message

2) Type in "Assignment 4.1A" in the subject line. (Later you can attach your completed assignment template to this email as well.)

3) Click on "Edit" on the menu and then go down to "Insert Voice."

4) This will add a recording bar within the e-mail. See Below.

5) Click on the record button and then the stop button once you have completed your recording.

6) If you are satisfied with the recording, click on the attach recording button (see below).

7) Make sure the recording is attached.

8) Leave the message in your mailbox unsent until you have completed the entire assignment for this section of Module 4. Once it is all complete attached the assignment template to this e-mail as well and then send it to your teacher for marking.

ASSESSMENT GUIDELINES

Your answers will be evaluated on effective completion: the illustration reflects the content, and thought is evident in how you read it.

Content	Excellent
Dramatic Reading Scoring Guide x 5	20
Total:	/20