SEMINAR PRESENTATION FEEDBACK

Some helpful hints for your ISU presentations:

GENERAL COMMENTS

• Know your material well
• Use cue cards, if required, with point-form prompts (have a script)
• Smile
• Practice! Practice! Practice!

PAY ATTENTION TO THE DESIGN

• Pour creative juices into the cover slide
• Avoid excessive “white” space (empty)
• Maintain a strong contrast between text and background
• Use contrasting text colours to draw attention
• Use single images
• Aim for simplicity
• Use visuals to increase emotional appeal
• Visuals should complement the text
• Consistent FONT (Sans Serif Font is easiest to read)
• Use font SIZE appropriately
• Skip the stock template: IMPORT a theme
• Use six or lesser number of lines of text
• Avoid overuse of bullet points

GETTING TECHNICAL

• Revise and edit carefully – everyone can see your mistakes 😦
• Follow the rules of capitalization and punctuation
• The title of the novella is always in italics
• “By” is followed with your names (no punctuation)
• Reread the handout on “Quoting Fiction” – “Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope” (1).
• In-text referencing must follow all quotes
• On your slide, state specifically the device used to reveal the theme (Characters, Thoughts, Conversations, Actions, Effects, Looks, Symbols, Motifs, Structure, Setting, Conflict, Narration, Events, Choices)
• Text-to-World Connections were much too vague – provide a specific example (Footage of the Democratic House Speaker, Nanci Pelosi, was edited to make her appear drunk or unwell, in the latest incident highlighting social media’s struggle to deal with disinformation).
• Connections should be of artistic or literary merit (credible)
• Works Cited (plural), alphabetical order, hanging indent
• Works Cited must include the primary text, ISU novel, poem/art work, world connections, images that are not Stock or Clip art.

Seminar Checklist

1. _____ Word File with Works Cited: D2L
2. _____ 18-slide Google doc: D2L
3. _____ Introduction
4. _____ Set the stage
5. _____ Thematic Concept ____________________________

Complete Sentence (theme): ______________________________________________________________________

6. _____ Theme Revealed: three ways (Characters, Thoughts, Conversations, Actions, Effects, Looks, Symbols, Motifs, Structure, Setting, Conflict, Narration, Events, Choices)
7. _____ Game
8. _____ Media Product
9. _____ Text-to-Text (poem / art work, ISU novel)
10. _____ Text-to-World (newspaper, current event)
11. _____ Synthesize
12. _____ Conclusion

WEEK SIXTEEN: UPDATE

Today students submitted their printed ISU essay with all reading and writing process work and a completed Achievement Chart (for self-assessment and meta-cognition). They also uploaded their file to the D2L Assignments Dropbox.

Here are the results 🙂

Printed file with all reading and writing process work (some process work missing) and completed Achievement Chart:

• Period 3: 25 of 26 students
• Period 4: 24 of 25 students

Uploaded file to the D2L Assignments Dropbox – students may now view the results by returning to the Assignments Dropbox:

• Period 3: 25 of 26 students
• Period 4: 24 of 25 students

BRAVO!

Next week is the final summative of the term: The Great Gatsby Seminar Presentations. Students must be in class to present. We will end the week by watching the feature film with Leonardo DiCaprio.

EXAM SCHEDULE