Catcher in the Rye Podcast Channel Project For your final project for Catcher in the Rye, you

will create a podcast using Audacity, a recording program, Soundcloud, and Wordpress, a blogging platform. Wordpress will allow you to upload your audio recordings of your essays and make them private to everyone but your group, Ms. Schmidt, and Mr. Eliason. Your entire project is due Tuesday/Wednesday, Oct. 29/30. Creating Your Group Blog 1. Go to http://learn.wordpress.com/get-started/ 2. Create an account. You can use your email address OR create a throwaway email account if you choose. 3. Set up your site visibility as private. Go to settingsReadingSite Visibility. Click on the spot that says: I would like my site to visible, only to users I choose. 4. Invite members of your group and Ms. Schmidt to view your blog by adding in their email addresses. Ms. Schmidts email address is: sschmidt@k12albemarle.org). Creating Your Podcast 1. Open Audacity on your laptops (if your laptop does not have Audacity, download it from this site: http://www.manataka.org/page392.html). 2. When you are reading to record, hit the record button. Record your essay in one take. 3. If you stumble while reading, drab the dumbbell over the mistake, and when ready to cut that section, hit delete (you can hit play to hear the mistake before hitting delete). If its not working, make sure you have not hit pause. However, its easiest to record in just one take. 4. You can add intro and outro music if you have time and choose to do so (this is entirely optional. For directions on how to do this, go here: http://prpost.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/podcasting-lesson-teachinginstructions-and-step-by-step-directions/ 5. Once you have finished editing, choose File and Export. Name your file and select to save to desktop as an MP3 Files format. Uploading Your Podcast 1. After you have saved your recording as an MP3 file on your desktop, go to www.soundcloud.com and create an account. 2. Once you have created an account, go to Upload, and then Choose File to Upload. Upload your audio file that you saved to your desktop. 3. Click the option to make your sound private. 4. Click Share and then copy the secret link. 5. Go to your blog, create new post, and paste the secret link, and then hit publish.

Podcast Analysis After each member of your group has successfully uploaded their podcasts, choose a group members podcast to analyze. In a separate, well-written and organized blog post, you will write 800 to 1000 words telling us the point of their podcast, or what the author is trying to say about the relationships/gender roles/stereotypes between/of men and women, and how they made this message clear to the reader. Examine both meaning and rhetorical strategies, determining whether the author was successful in delivering his/her point. What to Include: o Your Name o Name of podcast and name of podcasts author o Introduction paragraph with thesis o Body that includes evidence from the podcast (evidence entails details from audio and/or approximate quotes) o Conclusion o Between 800-1000 words

Podcast Project Rubric Podcast (10 pts) Excellent Speaks clearly and efficiently; sounds as if he/she is telling a story as opposed to reading off of a sheet of paper. Audio contains only one or two stumbles over speech and is devoid of most background noise; is about 3 minutes in length Writes clearly and creatively, using his or her anecdote to discuss gender roles and stereotypes implicitly; hooks the reader with figurative language, vivid details, diction, and syntax; has few to no grammatical/mech anical errors; takes into account comments from first draft Student includes all aspects from Directions Checklist; writes clearly, using evidence from his/her peers podcast that best Proficient Speaks clearly; has some stumbles over speech; audio isnt always clear due to some background noise; is about 3 minutes in length Adequate Student has difficulties reading, making it hard to distinguish what is being said; audio isnt clear because of excess background noise; is considerably less than 2:30 minutes in length Writes with some clarity, although some portions of the essay are unclear; the essay sometimes talks about the prompt explicitly, often deviating from the anecdote; writing is often vague with only some vivid details and figurative language; many mechanical errors; disregards most comments from first draft Student includes some aspects from Directions Checklist; writing tends to be unclear or vague, and he/she only uses some Poor Student has no podcast, link does not work, or we are not able to distinguish speaker from other sounds; is considerably less than 2:30 in length

Essay (20 pts)

Analysis (20 pts)

Writes clearly and at times creatively; the anecdote mostly discusses gender roles/stereotype s implicitly; helps the reader see the story using some figurative language and vivid details; has some grammatical/me chanical errors; takes into account some comments from first draft Student includes most aspects from Directions Checklist; writes clearly, using evidence from his/her peers podcast that

Writes with very little clarity; story is difficult to understand; has little to no anecdotal evidence, focusing on gender in broad terms, or a discussion of gender never occurs in the essay; writing is vague with no figurative language and few vivid details; many mechanical errors; disregards all comments from first draft Student is missing most aspects from Directions Checklist; writing is mostly unclear and/or vague and uses little to no evidence from peers podcast to determine

prove the thesis; identifies both the message of the podcast and rhetorical strategies used; looks critically at language in order to develop a thesis; has few to no grammatical/mech anical errors

help prove the thesis; identifies the message of the podcast and some rhetorical strategies used; looks at language to develop a thesis; has some grammatical/me chanical errors

evidence from peers podcast; thesis is vague; doesnt look closely at language or rhetorical strategies to determine message; has many grammatical/mec hanical errors

message; has no thesis; does not look at language or rhetorical strategies; has many grammatical/mechan ical errors