TED Talk Grading Criterion
When giving an analysis for IB, your challenge is to provide commentary moreso on HOW the text was written and less about WHAT the story is about. While summaries, paraphrasing and recaps are important, it is more critical to understand how well an author can connect elements of analysis to the text's overall meaning of the work as a whole, and reveal a global perspective on the theme.
When presenting your TED Talk, make sure you cover the following:
Presentation
Analysis
90-100: The commentary provides a significant and relevant response that provides analysis. It might include facts, concrete details, quotations and/or examples that thoroughly develop and explain. The commentary is within the time requirement and does not exceed. Student provides effective, constructive feedback to another student’s commentary, demonstrating thorough examination of clarity and coherence.
80-89: The commentary provides details that explain analysis. The commentary is within the time requirement and will not exceed. Student provides somewhat effective feedback to another student. However, it may lack the depth of analysis.
70-79: The commentary provides minimal facts and details that explain analysis. Student provides minimally effective feedback to another student or none at all. The response does not meet or it exceeds the sentence requirement.
60-69: The commentary does not provide adequate facts and details that reveals analysis. Student does not provide effective feedback. There is little evidence that the student can successfully conduct a review of a peer’s commentary.
0 - Student does not attempt the task.
When presenting your TED Talk, make sure you cover the following:
Presentation
- Title
- Thesis of talk
- Delivery
- Audience Engagement
- If the talk’s intent was revealed
Analysis
- Allegory: narrative form in which the characters are representative of some larger humanistic trait (i.e. greed, vanity, or bravery) and attempt to convey some larger lesson or meaning to life.
- Character: representation of a person, place, or thing performing traditionally human activities or functions in a work.
- Characterization: The choices an author makes to reveal a character’s personality, such as appearance, actions, dialogue, and motivations. Look for: Connections, links, and clues between and about characters. Ask yourself what the function and significance of each character is. Make this determination based upon the character's history, what the reader is told (and not told), and what other characters say about themselves and others.
- Conflict
- Connotation: implied meaning of word. BEWARE! Connotations can change over time.
- Crisis
- Denotation: dictionary definition of a word
- Diction: word choice
- Exposition:
- Figurative language
- Foreshadowing
- Hyperbole
- Imagery
- Narration
- Personification
- Plot
- Point of View
- Resolution/Denouement
- Rhetorical Appeals
- Rhythm
- Rising Action
- Setting
- Speaker
- Structure
- Suspense
- Symbolism
- Theme
- Tone
90-100: The commentary provides a significant and relevant response that provides analysis. It might include facts, concrete details, quotations and/or examples that thoroughly develop and explain. The commentary is within the time requirement and does not exceed. Student provides effective, constructive feedback to another student’s commentary, demonstrating thorough examination of clarity and coherence.
80-89: The commentary provides details that explain analysis. The commentary is within the time requirement and will not exceed. Student provides somewhat effective feedback to another student. However, it may lack the depth of analysis.
70-79: The commentary provides minimal facts and details that explain analysis. Student provides minimally effective feedback to another student or none at all. The response does not meet or it exceeds the sentence requirement.
60-69: The commentary does not provide adequate facts and details that reveals analysis. Student does not provide effective feedback. There is little evidence that the student can successfully conduct a review of a peer’s commentary.
0 - Student does not attempt the task.