English Aim Higher

Booker of Bookers Presentation

What do I have to do?

• Choose one of the previous Booker Prize winners or any of the short listed novels to read

• If you fancy one of the Whitbread Book of the Year or Orange Prize winners/short listed books you can choose one of these

• Prepare and deliver a 10 minute presentation to the rest of the group promoting your book and recommending it to be “The Booker of Bookers”

How do I have to present it?

• Really it`s up to you!

• You could use Powerpoint

• You could select an extract to give to the group and use this as the focus for your promotion

• You could create a short handout

• Use your imagination!

What did last year`s group choose?

• Possession by AS Byatt (2 students)

• The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

• The God of Small Things by Arundati Roy

• Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth

• The Ghost Road by Pat Barker

• The Life of Pi by Yann Martel

• The Restraint of Beasts by Magnus Mills

What presentation methods did they use?

• Powerpoint

• Handouts

• Using an extract as a focus for presentation and discussion

• Using an extract from the film version

• Talking!

• Inviting questions from the floor

Anything else required?

• Yes!!

• A brief piece of writing to promote the book taking a focus chosen by you

• No more than one side of A4 paper typed

• Suitable for using on a future Intranet page

• Examples of last year`s students` writing is to be put on the Intranet very soon

So….

• Choose your book!

• Many Booker winners and shortlisted books in the LRC

• Ask Corrine or Julie about others

• Ask Lorraine or Philippa for advice if you can`t choose

• Try to link your choice in with a theme or focus for your wider reading

And…

• Get reading!

• Enjoy it!

• www.themanbookerprize.com.

• www.theorangeprize.co.uk

• www.whitbread-bookawards.com.uk