ENG4U Summative Presentation:  Oral, Media, Writing, and Reading

ENG4U Summative Presentation:  Oral, Media, Writing, and Reading

Learning Goals

Speak to Communicate

-design and deliver an oral presentation for a specific purpose

-communicated with clarity and coherence

-use appropriate diction and stylistic devices

-use vocal strategies (pace, pitch, volume, tone, pronunciation, enunciation, etc.)

-use non-verbal cues (face and body expression)

Demonstrate Understanding

-of the soliloquy form and literary devices[unique_solution]

Extend Understanding

-make connections between an oral text, media, and self

Understand Media Text

-interpret messages and build critical literacy

Connecting Skills

-explain the connection between words and v

The Tasks

Written Soliloquy

Write your own soliloquy (25-35 lines) based on one of the prompts from Hamlet.  The soliloquy does not have to be poetry.  Do not try to rhyme!

You will type two copies and hand in one copy before the presentation.  You will include the following elements in your presentation:

1. Thesis

_a controlling idea or thesis/theme that your soliloquy presents.

_Use of the argumentative appeals to develop your argument

2. Tone and Connotation

_ three connotative words that create specific tones

3. Figurative Language

_three different figurative images, (one must be a metaphor, and symbol can be included here)

4. Rhetorical Devices

_three different rhetorical devices (paradox, overstatement, understatement, metonymy, synecdoche, allusion, sound devices, irony, pun, etc.)

5. Sentence Types

_two different sentence types (periodic, climactic, parallel, balanced, chiasmus)

Oral Presentation

There are three parts to your presentation:

1. Rehearse and present the soliloquy to the class, emphasizing our oral presentation skills in the delivery.  You must use your voice to create tone and emphasize your devices.

1. Analyse one of the devices in your soliloquy.  Create and present a point / proof / significance passage for your analysis.

1. Present an image or series of images you have found or drawn that relate thematically to your soliloquy.  Clearly explain the connections to the theme and to the devices in your soliloquy.  There must be at least four, specific, detailed connections.

Written Assignment

Hand in your soliloquy, typed, and all devices listed at the end with brief proof. Use the numbers of the categories, and prove why each example is the device you have chosen.

Eg. 1. Thesis – type the thesis – argumentative appeals (list them and explain why)

2. Connotations and tone – list the word – give connotations and tone
3. Figurative – list the device and explain why it is what it is

Etc.

Hand in three, formal point / proof / significance passages on three different devices in your soliloquy (also different from the one in the presentation.)

Process to Begin

Choose one of the prompts to start you off. Study the structure and devices of the soliloquy in Hamlet. Then, decide on the subject matter and tone of your soliloquy. Your soliloquy can express any tone or voice you wish.  Your work can be serious, reflective, humorous, sarcastic, belligerent, sophisticated, ironic, earnest, flippant, etc.

However, the soliloquy must be unified and coherent; there must be a controlling idea, and all the word choices and stylistic devices must work toward developing that idea and the appropriate tone.

1. O that this too too sullied ______________ would ___________________

(Act 1, Scene 2, Lines 129-130)

2. Now I am alone. O, what a ____________ and ___________________ am I!

(2.2.543-601)

3. To _____________ or not to ________________ : that is the question.

(3.1.56-90)

4. O, what a noble _____________ is here _________________

(3.1.152-163)

5. O, my ___________________ is rank, it smells to ____________________

(3.3.36-72)

6. How all occasions do _________________ me and spur my ______________

(4.4.32-66)

7. This is I, _______________ the _______________

(5.1.250-251, 269-279)

Start by filling in the blanks to begin your soliloquy.

Then, make sure your controlling argument occurs shortly after the opening.

Marking Scheme

The standard, English Department marking scheme will be used for the presentation.