For Your Group Presentations, We Shall Ask You To

World Memoir Presentation

Part I: Background (5 minutes)  Create a professional-looking power point presentation (no annoying effects) to convey information about geography and history that is relevant to the memoir. o Focus on visual images, maps or timelines, not text. o Explain each frame as you show it but do not merely read.  Include a bibliography. (This is different from a Works Cited! Use APA style this time.)

Part II: Content (10 minutes)  Present the content of the memoir through a creative activity: make a video, enact an interview, write a play, or do whatever else you think would convey the writer’s experience to your classmates. o Cover the entire scope of the book. Don’t worry about spoilers. o Make sure that your creation is an effective tool for communicating the content.

Part III: Analysis (5 minutes) Offer an analysis of the author’s purpose. Be sure to address all of the questions below, but synthesize your insights into a thesis-driven argument about the author’s purpose.  Consider the historical background that you have learned about, and situate your author in the economic and political reality that preceded the upheaval described in the memoir. o What was his or her life like prior to the events recounted in the memoir? Did your author desire change? If so, why? If not, who did? Why? o The author is talking about his or her personal experiences, but others may have had very different perspectives on what happened in the same place and time. Imagine what other perspectives there might have been. Use your knowledge of the history of the region.  What is his or her motive for telling the story?  How does this author account for the negative events experienced? o The very last question is the most important. Think about it. To what extent are the reactions of the people depicted a result of their own inherent goodness and to what extent are they the result of the conditions?

Expectations for the Presentation:  Plan your presentation and make sure that all group members contribute equally, both in the preparation and presentation.  Prepare your presentation and rehearse what you will say. Review the expectations below carefully.

Criteria for Evaluation: Components Criteria Points Geography is clearly and accurately presented. Relevant history is succinctly but thoroughly enough presented to place Background the events of the memoir in time and politics. 30 e

d Visual aids make both geography and history easily accessible to your a

r audience. G Your presentation accurately and thoroughly presents the main events and p Content 30 u ideas of the book, from beginning to end. o r Your analysis of purpose fully addresses all of the questions in a way that G Analysis 30 shows a thoughtful and insightful understanding of the memoir. Overall Your presentation is well prepared, organized and informative. It is creative 10 Polish enough to engage your audience. You show attention to detail. e

d Oral skills: Speech is clear, audible, and well-paced. a

r Presentation Speech is lively and engages the audience. 25 G

l Knowledge: You have mastered the material you present. a

u You contributed to your group responsibly. (You will be asked to write a d i

v self-assessment of your ability to work in the group as well as an

i Group Work 25 d assessment of your group-mates.) n I Total 150 My group members Name e-mail phone

Make your schedule/plan below Date Due In Class Homework Tues -Pass back midterms, grades -Read memoir 1/3 -pass back stories -Revise story -demonstrate how to submit to RFAS contest. Weds -Grammar -Read memoir 1/4 --go over memoir unit assignments -Revise story Thurs -Reading day -Read memoir 1/5 -Revise story Fri Grammar -Read memoir 1/6 -Submit story to RFAS contest Mon RFAS Contest Grammar -Read memoir 1/9 submission -Watch or read about Stanford deadline prison experiment; complete handout Tues -Reading day -Read memoir 1/10 -Watch or read about Stanford prison experiment; complete handout Weds Stanford Prison Experiment discussion Read memoir 1/11 Thurs Grammar Finish reading memoir 1/12 Fri NO CLASS— ID FLEX DAY 1/13 Mon NO SCHOOL 1/16 Tues Memoir Test 1/17 -group work time Weds -group work time 1/18 Thurs Dinner Party 1/19 Fri COMPUTER LAB WORK DAY 1/20 Mon -group work time 1/23 Tues COMPUTER LAB WORK DAY Finish memoir project 1/24 Weds Projects due Check projects 1/25 Prepare presentations R/F EX DAYS 1/26-7 Group Project Presentations