Thematic Screencast cont. 1/10/18

So today in class Mr. Rivers went over the rubric. He went into depth with it and said that we needed to have a song theme, book theme, and then lastly a synthesis claim. With these three things getting graded it went even more into depth and it states that you will be graded on "claim is specific and clear" (well develop). He went on to say that the themes should have 2 pieces of evidence and that they will be graded individually too. The rest of the rubric talks about the introduction and the conclusion and if it is clear and easily understood. The next part of the rubric is about annotations (video) and this is basically just shows that there is no yellow text or 8 size font. The annotations needs to be clear and has to be a close reading to the text. The next part you will be graded on audio, this means he doesn't want to be listening to a robot. He wants it to sound natural and not like you are reading from a script (kind of like monotone). After he went over that he allowed us to keep working on our projects. Today I worked on my synthesis claim so I can get it checked with Mr. Rivers. I started off saying "Although both texts show the characters going through their differences, there are some similarities throughout each text." I asked him if this was a good claim and he said that I had a good structure I just needed to be more specific with "differences and similarities." So taking that into consideration I was able to make a really good claim that looks like this "Although both texts show the characters going through a heartbreak, Fitzgerald's text shows how one lies to forget about the past and has a more traumatic ending." With my new claim I was able to convert differences to how the endings were in each the text and the song but I was also able to show that in the novel Gatsby lies about his past to escape from it and in my song it didn't do that. For the similarities I changed it to a heartbreak because both in the text and in the song they each have some kind of relationship problem and they show it by the word choice and how it affected them.

Using a thematic screen cast can help you in the long run if you want to go in broadcasting , you can get an idea on how to make your script more natural and not sound like a robot. But most importantly you can use this in colleges and if your professor tells you to do a podcast you will already have the experience.