Content
for PowerPoint Presentations
This
contains:
1. Novel/Play Review
2. Biography or Autobiography
Content for Powerpoint
3. Mystery
4.
Content for Classic Novel Powerpoint
5. American Author
Research Content
6. PowerPoint Evaluation
PowerPoint
makeups and tips
*Making-up listening quizes is the last item listed. Please
scroll down if you need that information!
Attention Getters:
Everyone's presentation should begin with one. The
attention getters should fit three criterias:
A. Relate
to the book
B. Apporiate for high school audience
C. Relatively short
Here is a list:
1.
Joke or anecdote (be brief)
2. Startling fact or statistic
3. Refer to a previous speaker
4. Refer to a recent incident
5. Audio/visual
6. Action (be safe)
7. Quotation
8. Question (must get a response)
PowerPoint presentations
for my class are an aid to help with the oral presentation
of material. The presentation should NOT have a great deal
of writing that the student audience has to read. The PowerPoint
should have a variety of backgrounds, colorful when appropriate,
incoporate charts, sound, and animation.
Although only the first
student on the first day know when he/she is going to make
his/her presentation, EVERY student should be prepared on
the first day!
Listening Quizzes over
the students' PowerPoint presentations will be given most
days.
Making-Up
Listening Quizzes: Students who miss those
quizzes must read the book jackets or skim each chapter
of 3 books of the same type. Then summarize
each book ( I know it may not be a real accurate summary),
decide IF it would appeal to high school juniors, and WHY
or WHY NOT. There should be a paragraph of this information
for each book and this is required for EACH day a quiz is
missed!
Tips
for taking essay tests
This information comes from The Columbus Dispatch
"Key words help on essay tests"
by Dr. Yvonne Fournier
Answering an essay
question appropriately should emphasize quality over quantity
of information. Unfortunately, many students and parents
believe that more is better, which leads students to expend
great effort trying to empty all of their memorized content
into answers that are often irrelevant to the question.
The purpose of an essay question is to assess a student's
ability to use information for analysis and critical thinking.
It is not a measure of how much but how well your child
can apply the information. To answer an essay effectively,
students must know how to organize their thoughts and information.
Because no two essay questions are alike, students need
to learn how to take the same information and present it
in different ways. If there is a "trick" to answering
essay questions, it is this: Learn to recognize key words.
Here are
a few examples:
* Evaluate:
"Evaluate the role President Franklin D. Roosevelt
played in global, economics." To evaluate means you
must look at all sides and give a balanced answer, presenting
both positive and negative consequences.
* Trace:
"Trace Roosevelt's influence on world economics."
To trace means you must give a chronology of circumstances
that occurred as a direct or indirect result of Roosevelt's
policies.
* Compare:
Look for similarities and differences between the things
mentioned.
* Contrast:
Stress the differences between the things mentioned
* Discuss:
Give an analytical view of all pros and cons.
Students who don't
know how to decipher key words in essay questions are clueless
as to why they lost points. But students who know how to
decipher what is asked can show mastery of information that
goes beyond recall and use knowledge to create new knowledge.
That's what education is all about.
*Thank you, come again!*
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