101t symposium book club presentations

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Student Arts and Research Symposium Book Club Presentations

Overview

If you’ve read carefully enough, you will notice that you and your book club groups are responsible forpresenting at the STARSThis is an annual event at the University that features the work of over 5students on the last day of classes of the fall se!ester"

What You’ll Present#uring the STARS, you and your book club group will be responsible for a twelve !inute presentation"

$ou should e%pect to present for the entire fifteen !inutes" $ou will be asked to give a general overviewand review of the book, and you will be asked to give special attention to the the!atic significance of the

book as well as the ways the research you did over the course of the se!ester helped you to deter!ine thatthe!e"

Who’ll You Present With/To $ou will present with so!e !e!bers of our class, but you will also present with other students fro! otherclasses presenting on other topics" $our audience will be other students, other faculty, University

Ad!inistrators, and other !e!bers of the &SU co!!unity" It’s a big day on ca!pus, and you should feel

free to invite your parents" $ou should !ost definitely invite your book club and study skills advisors.

When You’ll Present All of you will be scheduled during one of the two hours that are devoted to '()*+++--" $ou will notneed to !iss any other classes or any other obligations to participate" .articipation is re/uired, and failureto do so will seriously 0eopardi1e your grade for the book club portion of '()*++ and '()*+--"

Workshop/Dress Rehearsal2nce you finish your book 3and you’ll notice on the syllabus that I suggest a day to be done with the book,

you will work on your book club presentation in your book club A(# your study skills sessions" In classthe week before the STARS you will do a dry run of your presentation in our class" I will give you feedbackto help you i!prove your presentation so that it is at its best when we present it to the entire University"

Details

As I !entioned in the overview, you have fifteen !inutes to present" $ou should use e%actly fifteen!inutes, not !ore and not less" #uring those fifteen !inutes you should include the following4

1. A brief, and not boring summar of the plot of our no!el. This should not go on for !orethan three !inutes" Too !uch su!!ary is boring"

". A brief o!er!ie# of the important themes of the no!el. In other words, what is the thesis,essentially, of the novel 6hat is the author trying to get you to think about and understand by writingthis particular story This is the !ost i!portant part of your presentation" It is also the !ost creative" $ou

have a lot of freedo! to co!e up with the best way to present the the!e to the audience 3!ore on this in a!inutes7"

8" A brief overview of the what you learned fro! doing research related to the book, and how it helped you to understand the novel9in ter!s of plot, the!e, and character develop!ent" This is the second !osti!portant part of the presentation" It is related to what you need to do in nu!ber two" :ere again, how

you present this infor!ation to your audience, how you connect it to the the!ethesisbig idea of thenovel can be as creative as you want to !ake it"


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$. A short, re!ie# of the book. 6ould you reco!!end the book To who! 6hy If you wouldn’treco!!end the book, why not .lease avoid saying things like ;it’s stupid"< If it is stupid, than e%plain,

with care and thought, why it is stupid"

That is what you need to include in ter!s of content during your fifteen !inutes" As for presentation, how you develop this content into fifteen !inutes is up to you" :ere are so!e ideas students have done inprevious years"

%ake the mo!ie trailer for the no!el. This involved writing a script and putting together ashort !oviepowerpoint slide show that looked sort of like what a !ovie trailer for the !ovie

version of your book would look like" The !ovie trailer was not the full fifteen !inutes9thestudents did a regular power=point for the su!!ary > review sections" They e%plained how the!ovie trailer represented the the!e of the !ovie, and they took ti!e to highlight how the

research contributed" They also included ideas for casting the !ovie9what characters would beplayed by what stars and why"

Talk sho# dis&ussion like 'prah bet#een main &hara&ters about signifi&ant ideas inthe no!el. They had so!e characters fro! the novel and then other characters that allowed the

book characters to talk about ideas, fears, anger that the group felt like they would have e%pressedabout what happened in the book" It turned out to be a really effective way to co!bine researchand the!e" ?ariation on this4 the courtroo! dra!a ;you can’t handle the truth< scene" In this

version, instead of a talk show, the characters interact in a court in front of a 0ury" This only worksif you have a novel where a cri!e or potential cri!e or law suit could realistically be part of thestory"

The (app)ending Remake. This is a tricky one" Students !ade a video of a scene fro! the book9a really i!portant scene" Then they red=!ade the scene the way they wished it happened"Then they e%plained to the audience why they wished it happened that way, but why, in the end,the author didn’t write it that way9how the scene, as written by the author, e!bodied the the!eof the book"

Pop)up *ideos. Students would be presenting on the different parts of the presentation9the!e,

plot, review" And two of the group !e!bers would suddenly run in front of the speaker and holdup a cue card with relevant research that pertains to whatever the actual speaker was talkingabout" They’d hold the cue=card up in front of the face of the speaker, read the card, and thendisappear behind the group again" It was really clever9and really highlighted what they learned"


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These are 0ust so!e of the things students have done over the years" There have also seen a lot of basicpowerpoint presentations" And those work too" $ou are a clever bunch and, as I said, good presenters" So Ilook forward to what you !ight co!e up with"

Other Things

On the day of the presentation, please dress decently. Don’t wear anything that it

would embarrass you to wear to your grandmother’s funeral. Wear something thatmight be considered “business casual.” So no hoodies or sweats. I guess nice eans,but I’d prefer decent pants and a decent shirt and decent shoes.

Introduce yourselves to the audience, tell the! the title of the book and who the author is, and clue peoplein as to why you are doing this presentation" So set things up" Re!e!ber to thank, by na!e, your book club and study skills facilitators for their help with this pro0ectand the entire se!ester"

There is lots of food all day at the event, so !ake sure you take advantage of that" 'at for free all day onthe schools di!e"

I know that this !ight see! like a rather inti!idating way to end the se!ester, but you are all very goodpresenters" As long as you put in the work and ti!e to !ake these presentations strong and interesting,

you will do very well" $ou will be presenting in front of people who want you to do well" Additionally, thisis a first opportunity to start to beco!e involved in !eaningful acade!ic co=curricular activities likeUndergraduate Research" $ou can put this presentation on a resu!e" I will show you how to do this inclass" It is !y hope that this e%perience will launch !any of you into a very successful, acade!ically richlife at &SU" I always look forward to these days"

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