We have spent this week working on our Themes of Literature project. The first step my partner and I took was reading the two point of view short stories. Having done that, we started working on the presentation. It turned out to be a much more intensive task than I originally thought. I assumed that it would take about fifteen minutes to simply write everything down, but we’ve probably put in an hour or two. I have discovered just how much having to present a subject forces you to fully understand that subject. Take our first point of view story. Reading through it the first time, I felt that I knew the point of view, why it was important, and where it was best shown in the story. However, I went to write it on a presentation slide, but couldn’t form the words to properly explain it. The parts of the stories that I thought I would use were more hidden than I realized. I, more or less, had to re-read the story to find them. I also discovered that determining what to put on the slide versus what to say is difficult. My first instinct was to put almost everything on the slide, but that would cause what I was saying to be pointless. My partner and I worked out a good system of putting the basic essentials and the quotes used as examples on the slides, while saying the explanation of why what we are talking about is important. Speaking of talking, this link has some very good tips when it comes to actually speaking that I intend to use. I feel like this project has not only taught me about the elements of fiction, but how to present in a way that the audience will find interesting. I didn’t think that AP Lit would be the class that taught me how to present the best, but I’m certainly happy that it did.
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Josephine
11/1/2016 06:13:49 am
Hi Eric,
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