Wednesday, March 25, 2009

GRADING CRITERIA FOR PERFORMANCES

Guidelines for Performances

A performance aims to make you practice your acting and easiness with a topic with Spanish language and culture. You and your classmate will create a dialogue/interaction/interchange that focuses on a specific situation focused on the objectives of one/two or various lessons.

What is the format for a Performance script/paper?
You are required to write your performance typed in Microsoft Word, using single spaced 12 pt. Times New Roman font. You are required to keep your file with all your performances. You will send this file to the instructor by the end of the semester. You are required to follow the guidelines (if the instructor provides the scenario) to write your performance. You are also required to write background information sections to the characters, situation, time, and roles to play. You are also encouraged to provide some notes (in English) for situation changes, characters’ new identities and emotions, or the like to provide a sense of the interaction and why some scenes change during the performance.

RELEVANCE of performance to question/ task/ assignment. Background sections are helpful.
Somewhat relevant 10
Relevant 15
Very relevant 20

CREATIVITY Students created a difference with their performance; they acted in unique way and caught the audience’s attention.
Very limited signs of creativity 20
Average signs of creativity 25
Lots of signs of creativity 30

SPANISH LANGUAGE PERFORMANCE
Students acted and pronounced and enunciated clearly and used their acting and bodies to convey their meanings clearly. They improvised their lines if they forgot the scripts and achieved their communication goal 35
Performance was somewhat clear. Difficulties to understand key meanings in Spanish 35
Performance was clear. Some minor difficulties to understand some key meanings in Spanish 45
Performance was very clear. Key meanings in Spanish are easy to follow 50