Reading Presentations
In a cooperative effort with your group - you must create a 10 - 15 minute presentation that shows the central ideas of your reading circle book.
Your group will decide how and what to present (presentations will be 10-15 minutes) to your peers the week of April 13th- 50 points possible (see breakdown). You can choose to do something REALLY unique or something more conventional – start planning NOW!
1. Creativity - 10.
2. Effort – 10.
3. Collaboration - 10.
4. Accuracy - 10.
5. Group grade – 10.
You have April 9 - 10 and one day next week to organize.
Period 1 & 3 presentations are on April 16
Period 4 presentations are on April 17
Ideas for Presentation Format:
a. Summarize your book - give us an idea of what the book was about ( 5 minutes or less).
b. Every person in the group must share what they thought was an important part of the book and explain why - perfect scores for people who include quotes or read from the book.
c. Free choice - you can choose what you want to do for this section - see below (5 minutes or less).
Book Talk : Talk to the class about your book by saying a little about the author, explain who the characters are and explain enough about the beginning of the story so that everyone will understand what they are about to read. Finally, read an exciting, interesting, or amusing passage from your book. Stop reading at a moment that leaves the audience hanging and add "If you want to know more you’ll have to read the book." If the book talk is well done almost all the students want to read the book.
Dress up and give the report as if you are the main character telling what happened to you.
Give a “shoe box” report, in which you show items that you have in a shoe box that relate to your story. (For instance, if your book was about Paul Revere working as a silversmith, you might bring a piece of silverware and use it to explain that part of the story.
Dress up and tell the story as if you were one of the secondary characters in the story, telling what you witnessed happening to the main character.
Give your report as a newscaster, presenting the story to a wide TV audience.
Act out a scene from the book - as a group re enact a scene for the class. Must have lines memorized - you can create a script for this to give us a general idea.
Reading, read a section of your book that is engaging, memorable or otherwise important to your book. Explain why this is important and then make sure that you read with intonation, feeling and correct pronunciation.
Create a home page. Select several characters and design a home page for each of them, picking out appropriate backgrounds and pictures and then creating informa- tion that would tell a viewer about your character. Also, create links to at least five different sites that you think your character would be inter- ested in. Then write up and post on the page an explanation of how you made the decisions you did and what you believe this tells us about the character.
Scrap book - Think about all the kinds of mementos you would put in a scrap book if you had one. Then create a scrap book for your character, cutting out pic- tures from magazines or drawing the mementos he or she would have in a scrap book.
Photo Album.Thinkabout the events that happened in your novel. Decide which scenes or pic- tures from the novel a character would want to remember. Then draw several of these “photos” for an album page or write about which pictures the character would want in his or her album.
Oral Presentation Rubric - same as below:
Your group will decide how and what to present (presentations will be 10-15 minutes) to your peers the week of April 13th- 50 points possible (see breakdown). You can choose to do something REALLY unique or something more conventional – start planning NOW!
1. Creativity - 10.
2. Effort – 10.
3. Collaboration - 10.
4. Accuracy - 10.
5. Group grade – 10.
You have April 9 - 10 and one day next week to organize.
Period 1 & 3 presentations are on April 16
Period 4 presentations are on April 17
Ideas for Presentation Format:
a. Summarize your book - give us an idea of what the book was about ( 5 minutes or less).
b. Every person in the group must share what they thought was an important part of the book and explain why - perfect scores for people who include quotes or read from the book.
c. Free choice - you can choose what you want to do for this section - see below (5 minutes or less).
Book Talk : Talk to the class about your book by saying a little about the author, explain who the characters are and explain enough about the beginning of the story so that everyone will understand what they are about to read. Finally, read an exciting, interesting, or amusing passage from your book. Stop reading at a moment that leaves the audience hanging and add "If you want to know more you’ll have to read the book." If the book talk is well done almost all the students want to read the book.
Dress up and give the report as if you are the main character telling what happened to you.
Give a “shoe box” report, in which you show items that you have in a shoe box that relate to your story. (For instance, if your book was about Paul Revere working as a silversmith, you might bring a piece of silverware and use it to explain that part of the story.
Dress up and tell the story as if you were one of the secondary characters in the story, telling what you witnessed happening to the main character.
Give your report as a newscaster, presenting the story to a wide TV audience.
Act out a scene from the book - as a group re enact a scene for the class. Must have lines memorized - you can create a script for this to give us a general idea.
Reading, read a section of your book that is engaging, memorable or otherwise important to your book. Explain why this is important and then make sure that you read with intonation, feeling and correct pronunciation.
Create a home page. Select several characters and design a home page for each of them, picking out appropriate backgrounds and pictures and then creating informa- tion that would tell a viewer about your character. Also, create links to at least five different sites that you think your character would be inter- ested in. Then write up and post on the page an explanation of how you made the decisions you did and what you believe this tells us about the character.
Scrap book - Think about all the kinds of mementos you would put in a scrap book if you had one. Then create a scrap book for your character, cutting out pic- tures from magazines or drawing the mementos he or she would have in a scrap book.
Photo Album.Thinkabout the events that happened in your novel. Decide which scenes or pic- tures from the novel a character would want to remember. Then draw several of these “photos” for an album page or write about which pictures the character would want in his or her album.
Oral Presentation Rubric - same as below: