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.
 You will identify and discuss the 6 aspects of culture from Chapter 2
(learned, involves perceptions and values, shared, expressed behavior, involves
feelings, dynamic and heterogeneous) in your outline and in your speech.
 Three to four minutes in length.
 Practice your speech several times so that you can deliver it in an
extemporaneous speaking style.
 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
Outline
Visual Aid
Total
25 points
20 points
5 points
50 points possible
Cultural Artifacts Outline (should be typed)
Name:
Presentation Topic:
Specific Purpose:
Introduction (Attention Getter):
Body (main points in full sentences):
I.
Learned:
II.
Involves Perceptions and Values:
III.
Involves Feelings:
IV.
Shared:
V.
Expressed Behavior:
VI.
Dynamic and Heterogeneous:
Conclusion (Clincher):