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Evaluating Natalie's First Time On Stage

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Introduction – 45 to 60 seconds
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Natalie joined the theater group at her school for the first time this year. She is nervous and excited about being on stage.
She was not cast a role in the first play they performed. However, she was given the task of introducing the play to the audience.
Because of the school’s small auditorium the show will be performed three times for different groups.
The first group consists of the elementary and middle school students. The second group are the high school students, and the last group will include the community.
At first Natalie wrote one introduction that she planned to give three times. However, after careful consideration she felt that three different introductions are better.
The elementary …show more content…

Build on Introduction – 25 to 35 seconds
Sarah has a friend who talks a lot. She loves to chat constantly but Sarah can only take so much.
Sarah wants to be polite so when she has had enough she simply tunes out and nods her head as if she is listening when she really isn’t.
So when her friend shared her thoughts on how the rainforests are in danger, she simply shrugged.
When her friend began citing information that she read in scientific journals as proof, Sarah began taking her seriously.
In your writing, if you want your opinion to be considered legitimate, you will need to reference credible outside sources to support your claim.

Build on Clip B – 25 to 35 seconds
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Cara’s little sister is in the third grade. For homework she has an essay assignment that she asked Cara to help her with.
When Cara read the rough draft of her sister’s essay she knew she had to choose her words carefully when offering feedback.
The essay about sea creatures seemed to be written in random order. Information that should have been in the introduction was placed toward the end of the …show more content…

The best way for Norma to include her analysis is by referring to evidence from the text in order to support her claim.

Remediation for Clip A – 25 to 35 seconds
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Jordan wrote a children’s story for a school project. The children’s story is going to be read to the preschool class when they come to visit.
Jordan’s story was engaging for young preschoolers and he received a lot of compliments on it.
Everything was great until Jordan wrote an introduction for his book. The introduction featured language that was too mature for three and four year olds.
Once Jordan made the introduction fun and appropriate for preschool he was ready to present his story.
Jordan’s story was successful because he remembered his audience and wrote in a way that they could understand.

Remediation for Clip B – 25 to 35 seconds
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Phil is writing a paper on the importance of limiting television viewing in preschool aged children.
Right now he included his personal opinion that too much television limits learning capacity in three and four year

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