Features Praised in Presentations

Tangible, Specific Features Praised in Spoken Presentations by Students

• Walking us through the movie scene
• Map
• Emphasis on one character in the scene
• Interaction with class
• Voice inflection
• Analogies

Good Ideas for Handouts 

• Color
• PowerPoint
• Photos or clipart
• Your name!!
• List characters with personality features or significant actions that you summarize.
• Highlight scene.
• Bio of music artist, especially as relevant to the song
• Sourcenotes!!
• Observations or notes to highlight your main points, even line by line notes for poems or songs

Reminder: Mark song lyrics with boldface, italics, underlining, or symbols to show how (significant) words are emphasized during the performance, maybe even noting what instruments are audible or what back-up singers do and harmonies.

By analogy, some students capture the dialog of the movie scene they are showing and make notes about camera shots or camera angles.

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