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Question description
Search the novel for a detail that you know something about or some detail that you find intriguing. Choose one of the topics from the list below:
Ferris wheels
The origin of the phrase sweet hereafter
Demolition derby
County fairs
Upstate New York (near Plattsburg)
Personal injury law
School bus accidents
Problems faced by Vietnam vets
Montego Bay, Jamaica
Adoption of Native American children
Recovering from the death of a child
Small town relationships/life
Paraplegia
Legal depositions
Perjury
AIDS
Apple computers
Alcoholism
Drug addiction
Dome houses
Lasting effects of a stroke
Rehabilitation
Barbie dolls
Angora rabbits
Take your chosen detail as a separate idea from the novel and research it. Then, choose an angle from which you might share your information. You might research its usefulness in the world, its history, its superstitions, its modern-day meaning, its negative effect on the world, or any angle you can think of. Think: what most interests you about this topic? You will want to have a narrow focus that considers your audience(your peers), your purpose (to inform), and your tone (up to you).
Example:
For example, I might choose Barbie Dolls as my topic. My mother hates Barbie Dolls, and I was never allowed to play with them, but I never really understood why. I decide to research the controversy of Barbie and why many feminists object to her. Knowing this information, I can then look back at the novel and analyze why Banks choose this particular toy as the focus of Nicholes last summer of childhood hanging out with her sister Jenny.
Once you have completed your discovery process and you are ready to share your results.
Build a PowerPoint presentation (10-15 slides with audio) about your detail from the novel that teaches your peers about that detail.
Your presentation will include:
A statement of your topic and thesis about the angle you chose to research.
One slide near the beginning that discusses where the detail appears in the novel and the impact that the detail gives to the scene in which it appears.
At least three main supporting ideas for your thesis.
1-3 Details (facts, statistics, anecdotes, studies, evidence) from your research sources that develop your supporting ideas.
2-3 slides that reflect upon the authors choice of the detail that you researched, and a discussion of how that detail relates to one of the themes of The Sweet Hereafter.
Follow these guidelines for the powerpoint:
Use Preview/Present/Review organization
On the first slide tell the audience what they will learn (Preview the main points you will make).
Present your points in the same order as you did in the preview (Present).
On the next to last slide go over your main points again, but do it in a different way than on the preview slide (Review).
Use a hook to grab the audiences attention; do this first thing on the first slide.
Use a clincher as the last sentence of the next to last slide, so your presentation stays with the audience.
Use images, illustrations, photos, etc. to make your presentation interesting.
YOU WILL NOT SUBMIT AUDIO FOR THE PRESENTATION
Include a Works Cited page (as the very last slide) that lists your sources in MLA format. If you dont remember how to create a Works Cited page, look at the Using the MLA Style Manual (or view the Text Version). (Click the blue text to go to a page to help you review requirements)
EVEN IF YOU PARAPHRASE you must have in-text citation throughout the presentation and a works cited page
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