1/20/15

Tonight's homework is to continue your preparations for your presentation on Thursday. See below for reminders or if you missed class/misplaced any handouts. Here is a model (with multiple ways to show the same information/slide) that could be helpful.

Investigating and Evaluating Health Claims – Part 2 Task You will use your newly expanded understanding of claims found on food/supplement packaging in order to make and support a more general claim about the trustworthiness of health claims. In order to do this, you will first present your work to the rest of the class on Thursday – either through a Powerpoint/Prezi or a poster summarizing the findings of your research. Then on Friday, you will review what you learned from the rest of the class and write (and support) a claim answering questions like “How trustworthy are the claims on supplement labels?” or “How helpful are herbal supplements?”
 Procedure 1. Use your research and conclusions to create a 2-3 minute presentations outlining your conclusions about the effectiveness of herbal supplements and your supporting evidence.
 OR
 Use your research and conclusions to craft a poster/visual aid that outlines your conclusions about the effectiveness of herbal supplements and your supporting evidence.
 2. Prepare to speak coherently, intelligently, and eloquently about your conclusions and evidence on Thursday. Other students will be listening to your findings and using them as evidence to support their writing.

	Mastery – 4	Proficient – 3	Satisfactory – 2	Needs Revision – 1
Quality of presentation (Work Habits)	-Written/presented work is easy to read, yet sophisticated, and consistently free of errors while oral presentation is competent, professional, engaging and hooks the audience’s attention	Written/presented work is easy to read and consistently free of errors while oral presentation is competent, professional, and interesting	Written/presented work is unclear and/or contains several errors while oral presentation is lacking in content or unprofessional	Errors and/or the lack of clarity make comprehension difficult while oral presentation is unfocused and unprofessional
Claim	States clear, well-reasoned claim and counterclaim	States clear, well-reasoned claim	States a logical, but vague claim	States an illogical or indefensible position
Support of claim	Thoroughly supports claims with several detailed, convincing, specific reasons/pieces of evidence as well as refuted counterclaims	Thoroughly supports claims with multiple detailed, specific reasons/pieces of evidence as well as attempts at forming counterclaims/ refutations of them	Supports claims with multiple detailed, convincing specific reason/piece of evidence	Supports claims with reasons/ evidence that are not convincing due to lack of detail, specificity, or clarity OR not having enough pieces of evidence to support each claim
Demonstrates knowledge of class material	Very consistently demonstrates deep knowledge of related material by correctly using vocabulary and explaining examples clearly.	Consistently demonstrates knowledge of related material by correctly using vocabulary and explaining examples.	Demonstrates knowledge of related material by using vocabulary and explaining examples, but with some errors.	Does not demonstrate sufficient knowledge of class material through errors or lack of usage/ explanation.
Writing conventions	Writes elegantly and in a sophisticated manner while very consistently adhering to spelling and grammar conventions.	Very consistently adheres to spelling and grammar conventions.	Consistently adheres to spelling and grammar conventions.	Mostly adheres to spelling and grammar conventions.