History 20 Lesson 3.2 Summative Assignment Speech to the League of Nations For this assignment you will need to take on the role of a delegate that is representing a nation of your choosing in the League of Nations. As a representative in the League of Nations, you are concerned with recent events in the world and you are wanting to see an increased response from the various nations that are members of the League of Nations.  You have the option to choose any of the conflicts from the 1930’s that we have learned about in this unit as the event that is causing your increased concern. Possible events you could choose are: ·         Japan’s invasion of China (The second Sino-Japanese War) - 1937 ·         Italy’s invasion of Ethiopia - 1935 ·         Germany’s military build-up - 1935 ·         Germany’s reoccupation of the Rhineland – 1936 ·         Spanish Civil War - 1936 ·         The Anschluss - 1938 ·         Germany’s occupation of the Sudetenland - 1938 ·         Germany’s invasion of Czechoslovakia - 1939 Your speech will need: ·         An overview of the “current” situation that you are wanting the League of Nations to get involved with ·         An acknowledgement of the reasons that are influencing nations not to get involved  ·         Reasons why you believe it is important for the League of Nations to get involved  ·         Recommendations on how the League of Nations should increase their involvement in this event You will need to keep in mind that your speech is to be written as though you are delivering it at the time that the event you are addressing is occurring; so you can make predictions as to what might happen as a result of the event but you cannot present future events as though they are facts to prove that the League of Nations should take action. Submission of the final product: You will need to submit your speech on DLCgo. You can submit a written speech of approximately 500- 750 words or you can submit a recording of you delivering the speech. The recording should be around 3 minutes in length. Feel free to do some research of facts and figures that are relevant to the time of your speech, though it is not required. Remember that this should have the feel of a formal speech; so ensure that your introduction addresses the crowd that you are delivering your speech to, introduces yourself as the speaker, gives an overview of your topic and the ideas that you are wanting to convince your audience of. Be creative with this assignment but ensure that you are utilizing historically accurate facts for your evidence.   Speech Rubric Criterion Rating 4 Rating 3 Rating 2 Rating 1 Introduction ·         Catches audience’s attention in a positive manner   ·         Establishes credibility of your character as a speaker and politely addresses the audience.  ·         Clearly identifies topic and presents the audience with the stance you will be taking ·         Provides an overview of the main points that you will be basing yo.

1. History 20 Lesson 3.2 Summative Assignment
Speech to the League of Nations
For this assignment you will need to take on the role of a
delegate that is representing a nation of your choosing in the
League of Nations. As a representative in the League of
Nations, you are concerned with recent events in the world and
you are wanting to see an increased response from the various
nations that are members of the League of Nations.
You have the option to choose any of the conflicts from the
1930’s that we have learned about in this unit as the event that
is causing your increased concern.
Possible events you could choose are:
· Japan’s invasion of China (The second Sino-Japanese
War) - 1937
· Italy’s invasion of Ethiopia - 1935
· Germany’s military build-up - 1935
· Germany’s reoccupation of the Rhineland – 1936
· Spanish Civil War - 1936
· The Anschluss - 1938
· Germany’s occupation of the Sudetenland - 1938
· Germany’s invasion of Czechoslovakia - 1939
Your speech will need:
· An overview of the “current” situation that you are
wanting the League of Nations to get involved with
· An acknowledgement of the reasons that are influencing
nations not to get involved
· Reasons why you believe it is important for the League
of Nations to get involved
· Recommendations on how the League of Nations should
increase their involvement in this event
You will need to keep in mind that your speech is to be written
as though you are delivering it at the time that the event you are
addressing is occurring; so you can make predictions as to what
might happen as a result of the event but you cannot present

2. future events as though they are facts to prove that the League
of Nations should take action.
Submission of the final product:
You will need to submit your speech on DLCgo. You can submit
a written speech of approximately 500- 750 words or you can
submit a recording of you delivering the speech. The recording
should be around 3 minutes in length. Feel free to do some
research of facts and figures that are relevant to the time of
your speech, though it is not required. Remember that this
should have the feel of a formal speech; so ensure that your
introduction addresses the crowd that you are delivering your
speech to, introduces yourself as the speaker, gives an overview
of your topic and the ideas that you are wanting to convince
your audience of. Be creative with this assignment but ensure
that you are utilizing historically accurate facts for your
evidence.
Speech Rubric
Criterion
Rating
4
Rating
3
Rating
2
Rating
1
Introduction
· Catches audience’s attention in a positive manner
· Establishes credibility of your character as a speaker and
politely addresses the audience.
· Clearly identifies topic and presents the audience with
the stance you will be taking
· Provides an overview of the main points that you will be
basing your stance on.
· Attempts to catch the audience’s attention in a positive

3. manner
· Establishes credibility of your character as a speaker and
politely addresses the audience
· Clearly identifies topic and presents the audience but the
stance you will be taking is not clear
· Provides an overview of the main points that you will be
basing your stance on.
· Establishes credibility of your character as a speaker
· Vaguely identifies topic and presents the audience but
the stance you will be taking is not clear
· Provides an overview of the main points that you will be
basing your stance on.
· Does not establishes credibility of your character as a
speaker
· Topic and stance you have are unclear
· Has little overview of the points that you will be basing
your stance on.
· Stance, evidence, and conclusion are not logically
presented.
Body
· Main points are clear, concise, and well supported.
· All evidence is accurate and relevant to the overall goal
of the speech.
· Evidence is used to lead audience to clear and logical
points.
· Additional sources are used and documented
· Main points are clear, concise, and well supported.
· All evidence is accurate and relevant to the overall goal
of the speech.
· Evidence is used to lead audience to clear and logical
points.
· Main points are present but not clearly and concisely
presented.
· All evidence is accurate but does not completely fit to
the overall goal of the speech.

4. .
· Main points are hard to understand or connect to the
purpose of the speech.
· Not all evidence is accurate but does not completely fit
to the overall goal of the speech.
· Evidence does not lead audience to logical conclusions
that are trying to be made.
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Conclusion
· Clearly and concisely reviews main points
· Brings closure to the speech and connects evidence to
logical conclusion
· Is able to draw all evidence together to win over
audience
· Clearly and concisely reviews main points
· Brings closure to the speech and connects evidence to
logical conclusion
· Is able to draw all evidence together with a clear and
articulate conclusion.
· Reviews main points
· Brings closure to the speech but the evidence is not
clearly connected to the logical conclusion.
· Is clearly written but would not win over an audience
· Reviews main points but is not clear and concise
· Brings closure to speech but has gaps between evidence
and the conclusion.
· Does not appeal to audience
Historical Evidence
· All evidence is accurate from the period that the speech
is to be written in.
· Use of historical information enhances the appeal of the
speech.
· All evidence is accurate from the period that the speech

5. is to be written in.
· Not all evidence is accurate from the period that the
speech is to be written in.
· Major inaccuracies exist in the evidence that is being
presented for this period of time.
Historical Perspective
· The speech shows an understanding of the beliefs and
ideologies that the audience would have had at that time.
· The speech attempts to show an understanding of the
beliefs and ideologies that the audience would have had at that
time. Though the attempt is logical it is not accurate to the time
period
· The speech does not show a logical understanding of the
beliefs and ideologies that the audience would have had at that
time.
· The speech inaccurately shows the beliefs and ideologies
of people at this point in history.
Research Topic: Social judgement based on facial appearance
Research Question: How does eye region contribute to
corruptibility judgement of faces.
Hypothesis: Officials corruptibility is associated with eye
region
Study: We conducted an online study that gives participants the
opportunity to rate officials on whether they are corruptible
based off their eyes.
Introduction
Opening paragraph and research topic

6. In the first one (or two) paragraph, the research topic should be
clearly introduced or prepared.
Literature review
The background of the research topic is appropriately given.
The articles cited are all relevant, appropriately cited, and with
a clear purpose, i.e., to prepare for the current study.
Identify the gap in knowledge
At the end of the literature review, clearly point out the gap of
the current knowledge (which should be clearly seen from the
literature review), and then introduce the current study.
Introduce the current study
After identifying the gap in knowledge, the current study should
be introduced as the solution to the issue raised. The connection
between the current study and the literature review/critique
should be smooth and logical. The current approach should be
clear, concise, and directly responding to the research question.
Clarify the hypotheses
Ending the introduction with a clearly stated hypothesis, which
should be supported by the reviewed literature.