RUBRIC: STORYTELLING

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You make eye You make eye contact You don’t make eye You don’t make eye
contact with everyone with the audience, but contact. You look in contact with the
in the audience. You may look only at a few the direction of the audience. You look
look at acting people in the front, or a audience, but not at at the floor or out in
partners when you few friends. the audience. space.
Eye
are speaking to them
Contact
and listening to them.
You are able to go up
to individual audience
members and speak
directly to them.

You use your face and You use your face and You aren’t using You don’t use your
body to show who the body to show who the your face and body face and body when
characters are, what characters are, what to show who the you tell stories. You
they are doing and how they are doing and characters are, look shy and
they feel. All of your how they feel. You sit what they are doing uncomfortable on
Body gestures are controlled, or stand straight, or stage. You may sit
and how they feel,
clear and easy to stand and move like slouched over or
understand. You sit or your character. You but you sit or stand stand leaning against
stand straight, or stand move with energy that straight when you something, or move
and move like your fits the story, but your tell stories. You your arms and legs
character when telling gestures may be may fidget, but are when you should be
the story. You are able unclear, uncontrolled, able to stop with standing still. You
to use your body to or difficult to fidget or move your
reminders.
become different understand. body in an
characters. All of your uncontrolled way.
movement shows
energy that fits the story
and character.
You speak with energy You speak in a clear It’s hard to hear you. We can’t hear you.
in a clear voice that voice that everyone You are using some
everyone can hear all can hear. Your voice tools that good
the time. You can shows energy and speakers use,
Voice change volume, pace, feeling but it lacks the changing volume,
and pitch to fit what is changes in volume, pace and pitch,
happening and who is pace, and pitch that speaking with feeling,
speaking. Your voice make the story easy to but you are speaking
shows the feelings of listen to and so softly it’s hard to
the characters and even understand. You may follow the story.
when speaking speak the dialogue
narration, your voice with feeling, but not the
shows feeling and narration.
energy that fit the story.