World History-PEP NKY-First Quarter Projects Each student will present a 3-4 minute (strictly timed!) project/presentation/speech on one of the topics listed in the table below. Select your topic by 5 pm on September 9 th by messaging Mrs. Almquist through Engrade. This is a first come, first served selection process. The sooner you send a message with your choice, the better chance you have of getting your choice. Mrs. Almquist will post a running list on the Engrade calendar for Sept. 9 th showing who has chosen what topic. Presentation dates are: Oct. 3, 5 with overflow only if needed on Oct. 10. Mrs. Almquist will assign you a presentation date. (If you know you will be out of town on one of these dates, please let her know ASAP.) Topic List: First Quarter Presentations page 1 of 5
Please read these directions very carefully! Each project has 4 required parts: 1. visual aid 2. an oral presentation 3. handout for the class 4. note cards that include a bibliography of 4 resources: 2 may be web resources and 2 must be print resources (usually a book) Your project must include significant information about your topic (person, place, thing, idea) and answer as many of who, what, when, where, why, and how questions as possible. Include pictures to illustrate your points. Visual Aid You may do this in any way you wish: tri-fold board, poster, model, **PowerPoint slides, **Prezi presentation (http://prezi.com/), song, poem, music, picture, etc. Feel free to be creative! Include: Maps, pictures Interesting facts Famous people, places, objects Correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation Extras: o costumes o video: check out streaming videos at the Boone County Public Library, Access Video (Films on Demand) http://avod.films.com/dashboard.aspx, username: boonelibrary, password: bcplvideo Note Cards To help you organize your thoughts, create at least 10 note cards that list key points. One of the 10 cards holds your bibliography, which must list at least 4 sources you consulted when preparing your project(2 web-base, 2 print/books). Format your sources in the MLA (Modern Language Association) format. (See notes below.) Turn in note cards on the day of your project/presentation. Handout for the class Email or give the handout to Mrs. Almquist the PEP day before your scheduled presentation and she will make copies for you. The handout can be a word search, a quiz, coloring sheet, alphabet, crossword puzzle, sayings, etc. If you can include a quiz within a PowerPoint or other visual aid, please feel free to do so. (This cuts down on making copies!) Oral Presentation You will need to practice. You should not just read from your note cards or visual aid. Eye contact and voice projection are important. Be sure to have an introduction and a summary. Don t just end it; present a conclusion. Leave at least 30 seconds for a question and answer session at the end of your presentation. Presentation length (3-4 minutes) Strictly timed by Mrs. Almquist with a timer Coverage of topic [Did you address all the main points? Did you add some interesting facts? Did you refer to your visual aids and use them effectively?] First Quarter Presentations page 2 of 5
Clarity of voice projection [Could we hear you? Did you pace yourself and talk clearly?] Peer (your fellow student) Reviews You will carefully and politely evaluate each other s presentations. When I complete the rubric grading your presentation, you will also see your fellow classmates comments listed anonymously. Please be specific and helpful! Bibliography Citations: Use the MLA (Modern Language Association)** form of citation for your bibliography. (Check out http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/08/ for more information.) If using a word processor, the bibliography citations must be double-spaced. Book template (be careful to include all punctuation whether typing or writing by hand) Last name of author, first name of author. Title (in italics). City and state of publication: publisher s name, date of publication or copyright. Print. Examples: Anderson, Robert. Italy. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2006. Print. Cavendish, Marshall. Cultures of the World: Sweden. Chicago, IL: Benchmark Books, 2003. Print. Websites. Google and other search engines are not resources. Resources are specific web sites with distinct addresses and titles. Web template Use, in this order, as many of these items as you can find. 1. Author or editor's last name, then first name. This can be hard to find, but if it is there, it will be at the top or bottom of the page. It may be a person or a corporation or group, such as the CIA or a university. If you cannot find any author, then start with the title of the web page. 2. Title of the web page/article in quotation marks. 3. Website name, italicized if printed out. Underlined if hand written. 4. Website owner or sponsor if available. May be a corporation or group different from the author. If not available use n.p. for no publisher. 5. Date of publication (DD MM YYYY as in 15 June 2009). If a publication date is not available, use n.d. for "no date." 6. The word Web and a period to indicate the publication medium. 7. The date you accessed or visited the website in the day-month-year format, such as 11 Nov. 2015 and a period. 8. Include the URL (uniform resource locator--that is, Web address) of the document <in angle brackets> followed by a period. If you have to go to a second line with the URL, be sure to indent the second line and break URLs only after slashes. First Quarter Presentations page 3 of 5
Note that often you will not have all of these items. The site name will be available, but the website owner or sponsor will be the same or not known. If it is the same, then only include it as the author. Just do your best and don t worry too much about this. You will work on the style throughout your PEP years. Be aware that not every teacher will ask for the URL as part of your website citation. Here is the basic setup- Editor, author, or compiler name (if available). Title. Name of Site. Name of institution/organization affiliated with the site (sponsor or publisher if available, if unavailable use N.p.), date of resource creation (if available) or n.d. (if unavailable). Web. Date of access-day month year. <URL>. Examples: Central Intelligence Agency. World Factbook: Italy. Web. 11 Nov. 2012. <https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/it.html>. Aristotle. Poetics. The Internet Classics Archive. Web Atomic and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 13 Sept. 2007. Web. 4 Nov. 2008. http://classics.mit.edu/. "How to Make Vegetarian Chili." ehow. Demand Media, Inc., n.d. Web. 24 Feb. 2009. <http://www.vegchili.org>. Exploring Sweden. Sweden Today. N.p., n.d. Web. 1 Dec. 2012. <http://sweden.org> Confused? Send me your bibliography and I will help you with formatting. You may also send me questions about web resources your find. Remember not everything Google brings up is truthful or authentic information! * MLA Citations: See also http://www.calstatela.edu/library/guides/3mla.pdf as a guide. Whenever you consult a web site, be sure to record its URL (Uniform Resource Locator), which is a fancy word for the web site s address. First Quarter Presentations page 4 of 5
**If you decide to use PowerPoint or Prezi as your visual aid you may bring your computer to class or save your presentation on a Flash drive and use my computer. Computers may only be used for the class presentation. First Quarter Presentations page 5 of 5