Transcript Novel Project

Evil People Project
How to Succeed
What makes your Mini-Project
good?
Should be well researched.
Tells a good story / is interesting and enjoyable to audit.
Gives some insight into human behaviour, psychology,
philosophy.
Gives the audience something important to think about.
Provides real-life situations that can be applied to real life.
Causes you to question critically the individual’s behaviour.
You can relate in some way through prior knowledge to the
individual and the actions. (emotional/personal response).
Your True Purpose
Prove that you have done a thorough job of
researching and presented information in the
appropriate time frame.
Prove that you have understood important
aspects of your person.
Prove that this individual truly belongs in this
place in history (as an evil person) and make a
thoughtful connection to your text (text to text),
and to life (text to world) and to yourself (text to
self)
THOUGHTFUL RESEARCHERS
You will need to choose the best/most
interesting information for a solid
presentation.
Do not rely on summaries or internet only.
You should have at least two sources –
one being a book.
Use proper works cited at the end. You
may do this on paper or on power point.
Evil Person Project Presentations
There is no part of the instructions for this project that
ask for a heavily detailed background summary or
character explanation. Do not spend too much of your
time on this.
TIME: It is a 7 to 10 minute presentation. It is your job
to stay within the time limit. This means you must be
well rehearsed and cut the unnecessary.
Try to find a way to “hook” your audience at the
beginning so that interest will be less likely to waver
during your presentation. This could be a question, a
fact, a 30 second skit, dialogue, or other “appropriate”
means of gaining audience attention.
Presentations
The directions in the rubric state, “You must
explain ‘the insight’ you gained from researching
this individual.” This is an important part of the
presentation, (the controlling idea).
You must utter the word, “insight”!
Then, you have to say something relevant and
meaningful.
If you do a good job here, you will prove that you
have done careful and thoughtful research.
General Comments
Learn to follow directions with precision.
Your responses should help to prove that
you read and understood the person.
Use all directions, rubrics, samples, etc to
help create your final product.
If you like, you can use PowerPoint to
guide your presentation.*** limit the
amount of text you use on your slides.
General Comments
Wording and word choice must be both
precise and accurate. This is an
editing/revising task***
Phrasing and attention to important details
Book + Internet. Books are usually more
reliable.
It is your job to choose the BEST
information and text support your
argument. (agt)
Outside Sources
You may use more than 2 sources
Cite any outside source you use from any
idea in this presentation.
Only you know for sure! I am always
watching for this and will be trying to
protect the innocent!
How do we succeed and avoid
delays/problems??
Help a person who has not seemed to “measure up” to what you expect.
Do not put them down and give up. This hurts in more ways than one!
Keep a software or hard copy of anything the group makes. Be sure
everyone has what you have. If four people have everything and are
familiar with everything, then three, or even two can make the presentation
on a given day without the third or fourth person (s), (who may be
legitimately sick) without “missing the opportunity” and sacrificing their mark.
In other words, it is not acceptable to say at the last minute, “Person 1 did
not do...”, or, “Person 2 is sick and can not do ‘their’ part of the
presentation.” Avoid these two things as they are a sure-fire way to
“torpedo” your efforts.
Last, have your notes, power-points, etc. “ready to go” on the day you are to
present. Save items you wish to show in MS word 2003 or lower for
example so school computers will understand them. I will post a schedule
early and you will know your date. Presentations will span May 3-4 2012.
Expect technological problems and deal with them when they happen.