Name_______________________________               Period____________

 

 

In the next month, you will be doing research an author specified by your teacher.  This will be part of your quarterly assessment.      Your author is:

This research will lead to the following:

• A PowerPoint  and Oral presentation
• This will be a brief five slide presentation.  The content is limited to these specifics:
• A title slide which includes a portrait of the author, birth and death dates. 
• One slide devoted to the highlights of his life
• One slide devoted to his/her works
• One slide devoted to contribution to literature i.e.  Why are you looking at this author?  Why is he/she considered important?
• A bibliography slide
• Speaker’s notes that include information not included on the slide, these are to be printed and used as the basis of your oral presentation.  The oral presentation may not exceed 3-5 minutes
• ALL information must be properly documented and the only allowable sources are library subscription databases.  Exceptions may be made for illustrations with the permission of the instructor.

 

To begin this work, you will review the rudiments of constructing a search strategy and learn how to gain access to the library databases and the school server and the use of Noodle tools to construct a bibliography. You will also learn how to do a simple search of the databases and send the material to your email You will have several sessions in the Library lab and the English lab and time to begin work on this in class.  It is recommended that you keep all handouts in a single place especially the passwords for the databases.  In addition to this sheet you will be given several sheets of tips as well as a rubric which will show you how this assignment will be graded. 

Essential points about this assignment

• The use of PowerPoint is secondary to the information presented.  It is to be considered a tool and not  the object of the exercise
• Students will be expected to collect information from several sources and blend them together into a coherent whole.  Plagiarism will not be tolerated. Parenthetical references are required in the speaker’s notes
• Students will be expected to be able to email source material home.  If you do not have a viable email address, please see Mrs. Gates.
• Students will be expected to store the finished PowerPoint in their own personal account storage as well as a designated folder on the server
• Oral presentations should be enhanced by the slide show not overwhelmed
• When saving your finished PowerPoint to the server’s public file, students should name their presentation with their class period first then the author’s name and finally their own name without any spaces or punctuation