3.5 Starter Quiz

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• 2.5

• 3.7

• 3.5

• 301

How many credits is this assignment worth?

TRUE OR FALSE: This achievement standard involves creating and delivering an oral text which develops, sustains, and structures ideas.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Answer explanation

Read again. You are not creating and delivering any oral text/speech. You are creating and delivering a FLUENT and COHERENT oral text which develops, sustains, and structures ideas.

What does it mean to be fluent?

• Be able to present ideas in any type of language; via speech or writing.

• Be able to express oneself readily with advanced vocabulary via speech or writing.

• Be able to present ideas without any errors; via speech or writing.

• Be articulate and smoothly deliver a conversation via speech or writing.

What does it mean to be coherent?

• To sound knowledgeable. To also be persuasive. So that readers/listeners are influences to follow.

• Logical and consistent interrelation of ideas; flows smoothly for readers/listeners to understand and follow.

• Consistent connecting of ideas; readers/listeners can understand and follow.

• To project one's ideas clearly; so that readers/listeners can understand and follow.

Define "develops".

• My written and oral language forms one point of view. It concludes with an elevated form.

• My written and oral language is restricted to my own perspectives. It concludes with an intelligent form.

• My written and oral language consistently stays the same. It concludes with an advanced form.

• My written and oral language will grow and/or change into a more advanced form.

Define "sustains".

• Using my perspective to strengthen, support, and stabilize my oral text. Keep my perspective strong and firm.

• Using written and oral conventions to strengthen, support, and stabilize my oral text. Keep my ideas alive and the audience engaged throughout.

• Using written and oral conventions to maintain my oral text; keep my ideas alive and the audience always engaged.

• To not make any mistakes with my oral text. Keep my ideas alive and the audience always engaged.

Texts predominantly have a purpose behind its creation.

What are the three main reasons/purpose a text is created?

• To persuade, inform, or entertain.

• To explain, describe, or persuade.

• To persuade, explore, or entertain.

• To describe, instruct, or entertain.

Answer explanation

You should be thinking about this now: What will be the purpose of your oral text?

What does it mean to be convincing?

• To be strongly persuasive.

• To be compellingly implausible.

• To be impressively dubious.

• To be firmly tunnel-visioned.

What does it mean to command attention?

• Written, oral, and visual language evokes emotion from the audience.

• Written, oral, and visual language engages the audience.

• Written, oral, and visual language engages and sustains the audience.

• Written, oral, and visual language is used throughout.