Self-Evaluation: Orally Present Your Story and Evaluate Yourself

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Instructions

1. Take the copy (the script) that you wrote in Assignment 1 and deliver it orally (speak). If you have a voice recorder, you can record yourself and play it back.
2. Remember to consider stress and intonation while you present your copy.  It may help to identify the content words in each sentence.
3. Complete a self-assessment following your presentation.

Model Response - Copy Only

City Announces New Internship Program

by Eve Nora Litt, Education Correspondent  

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Philadelphia / will host a new internship program. That’s what Bill Wallace / of the City Department of Education said on Thursday.  High school students / can earn high school credit at City Hall.  They’ll work with a city council member.  Participants will go through a two-step application process.  The program won’t begin /until next fall.

               Bill Wallace explained that / high school students need real world experience / and something to put on their college application.  This program hopes to increase the rate of college-bound high school graduates / and decrease drop-out rates.