Wednesday, March 07, 2012

Dénouement Presentations

Slide by Slide Requirements

Slide 1: Title Slide – names of group members with pic

Slide 2: Picture related to story/ essays - and titles of story/ essays

Slides: 3 – 6: Teaching slide…restate the plot/ synopsis/ characters of the story of your choice and tell how the story affected you.

Slide 7: Theme slide. Write the theme of the stories in your own words, as a complete sentence (and not a command or a cliche.).

Slide 8: Tell what, in general, you will take away from these story/ essays – the denouement.  What did you learn from these stories?

Slide 9: End/ thank you slide with a picture.

You should use note cards - no reading from the slides - and rehearse thoroughly. Presentations begin Thursday, April 24! No excuses.

Monday, February 20, 2012

Seeing the Perfect Person/ The Interrupters Presentation

Slide by Slide Requirements

Slide 1: Title Slide - names of group members and picture.

Slide 2: Title of presentation, picture related to it.

Slides 3 -7: Character slides (with pics). Tell about the character from The Interrupters your are focusing on. How did he/ she change the way you thought of gang members/ troubled people and how society deals with them? Give background information on the character - and research how they have changed since the film was made.

Slides 8-10 : Tell how can this person's story help law-enforcement officials and members of Lake Ridge School's administration deal with similar situations. Be sure to talk about the way these situations are handled now. Include pictures. Persuade!

Slide 11-14: Compare the character from The Interrupters to someone you know in real life. (You do not have to tell who this person is if you do not want to; you can simply describe him or her). Talk about how you personally can help this person knowing what you know now.

Slide 15: Theme slide. Write the theme of The Interrupters in your own words, as a complete sentence.

Slide 16: End/ thank you slide with a picture.

You should use notecards - no reading from the slides - and rehearse thoroughly. Presentations begin Friday! No excuses.

Tuesday, February 07, 2012

Theme Presentations

Slide by Slide Requirements

Slide 1: Title Slide - names, names of story your are presenting.

Slide 2: Title of story, picture related to it.

Slide 3: Character slide (with pic). Tell about the character and how he/ she changes.

Slide 4: Conflict slide. Tell what the main conflict is and how it is resolved. Example: John is scared to travel to the Place of the Gods, but...

Slide 5: Title slide. Tell what, if anything, the title of the story suggests.

Slide 6: Tell what, in general, the story reveals about life or people.

Slide 7: Theme slide. Write the theme of the story in your own words, as a complete sentence.

Slide 8: End/ thank you slide with a picture.

You should use notecards - no reading from the slides - and rehearse thoroughly. Presentations begin Thursday! No excuses.