MCC Cultural Artifact Speech

1. Is the topic specific enough to be covered in 4-6 minutes? Should it be more narrow or broad?
2. Does this speech adequately describe the artifact and explain how it represents the culture?
What else would you like to know about the artifact?
3. Does this speech adequately describe the culture?
What else would you like to know about the
culture?

4. Does this speech adequately explain how the speaker identifies with the culture? What else
would you like to know about the speaker’s relationship to the culture?
5. Is this speech describing an artifact, using it to explain a culture, and explaining how the
speaker identifies with that culture? What else would you like to know about the topic?
6. Has the speaker established the significance of the topic, both for the world and for the specific
audience? How could the speaker make you care more?
7. How can the speaker make you care more about their topic?
8. What are your two favorite parts of this speech? Why? Can you think of a way to make them
even better?
a.b.9. What are two ways you think this speech could be improve? How? Why?
a.b.