Name: _______________________Date: _________Hour: ELA-_____

“Pitch” IT!You work for a major marketing company. It is your company’s responsibility to put together a sourcebook of developments in world technology. Your presentation will examine technology (inventions) throughout human history, and you have been assigned to help decide what to include from Ancient China. To promote your suggestion (your CLAIM) you must develop a presentation to “pitch” to your superiors. How you decide to present your claim is up to you. It can be oral, a video, a PowerPoint, a brochure, or anything else you want to use to make your point.

You have already chosen what invention you will be researching. Within your team you will decide what your claim will be. Some questions to ask are:

Why is your Ancient Chinese Invention the most important? What is the history of your invention?How and why did it come into use?How does it work? Who benefited/benefits from it?What is its impact on China? Other places in the world?What is its influence on further developments?

You and your co-workers will need to view a variety of sources to see what makes your invention the most important. Once your team of co-workers have decided on a claim to make regarding your invention, this claim needs to be presented to your supervisor for review. From there, you will start looking through resources for evidence that will support this claim.

My Ancient Chinese Invention is: _______________________

My group members are: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Our claim is: _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

While researching for evidence remember:

• you will need to gather evidence from multiple print and/or digital sources; assess the credibility of each source; and quote and paraphrase the evidence and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and providing basic bibliographic information for sources. (We will be learning the correct way to cite information using MLA format.)

• you will need to produce clear and coherent evidence to support your claim in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to the task, purpose and audience.

Independently, you will be responsible for providing evidence that supports the claim your group has made. You will also be held accountable for contributing to the creation of your “pitch” and how your group plans to deliver this claim.

How to Create a Works Cited PageA works cited page is a list of references that you used while conducting research. If you used sources, then you must document where they came from, otherwise it’s known as plagiarism.  One Author - Book FormatLast Name, First Name. Title of Book. City of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. Medium of Publication.  One Author - Book ExamplesBordwell, David. Figures Traced in Light: On Cinematic Staging. Berkeley: U California P, 2005. Print. Britland, Karen. Drama at the Courts of Queen Maria Henrietta. New York: Cambridge UP, 2006. Print. Card, Claudia. The Atrocity Paradigm: A Theory of Evil. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2005. Print. Two Authors - Book FormatThe first given name appears in last name, first name format; subsequent author names appear in first name last name format. Last Name, First Name and First Name Last Name. Title of Book. City of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. Medium of Publication. Two Authors - Book ExampleCross, Susan, and Christine Hoffman. Bruce Nauman: Theaters of Experience. London: Thames & Hudson, 2004. Print. Encyclopedia FormatAuthor’s Last Name, First Name. “Title of the Article.” Title of the Encyclopedia. Editor’s First and Last Name, Volume Number, City of the Publication: Publisher, Copyright Date. Medium of Publication.  Encyclopedia ExamplesArt, Robert J. “United Nations.” World Book. Ed. Warrant T. Reich, Vol. 20, Chicago: World Book Inc., 2004. Print.  Madden, Edward H. "Civil Disobedience." Dictionary of the History of Ideas. Ed. Philip Wiener, Vol. 5, New York: Scribner's, 1973. Print.

• Scoring Guide for Chinese Invention• Notes

– Takes notes on material to prepare for presentation. – 5 points

• Works Cited– Group creates a work cited page. Must have at least 2

sources. Proper format required.– 10 points

• Visual– Group must have something visual for the class to examine. – 5 points

• Creativity– Project is creative, unique, stands out– 5 points

• Neatness– CUPS – Correct capitalization, usage, punctuation, spelling– 5 points

• • Total ____ / 30