CMUN 4: Cultural Artifacts Presentation, Due:

Purpose of Assignment:

This short presentation describing your own culture will give you experience speaking in front of the class, give the class a chance to get to know you better, and will encourage awareness of our cultural diversity.  Your goal is to describe your own culture or some aspect of it by focusing on the values, artifacts, rituals, ceremonies, or practices that make your culture unique.  Consider the sense of identity or shared meaning that you feel within your culture that is not obvious to those outside of your culture. 

Requirements:

• Your presentation should have three parts--an introduction, body, and conclusion.  Introduce your culture beginning with an effective first sentence (attention getter). Conclude with a thought that you want the audience to remember about your culture (clincher).
• You will identify and discuss the 5 aspects of culture (learned, involves perceptions and values, shared, expressed behavior, dynamic and heterogeneous) in your outline and in your speech.
• Your presentation should be three to five minutes in length.  Be sure to time yourself when practicing your speech from a note card(s).
• You should practice your speech several times so that you can deliver it in an extemporaneous speaking style.
• You must use one visual aid to add a sense of your culture for the audience.
• You will turn in a typed outline prior to your presentation.

Criteria For Evaluation:

Content                      10 points                      

Outline                      10 points          

Visual Aid                   5 points

Total                             25 points possible

Cultural Artifacts Outline

Name:

Presentation Topic:

Specific Purpose:

Introduction (Attention Getter):

Body (main points in full sentences):

  I. Learned:

  II.Involves Perceptions and Values:

  III. Shared:

  IV.Expressed Behavior:

  V. Dynamic and Heterogeneous:

Conclusion (Clincher):