Bringing Classic Authors & Works to Life

2013 Honors English – Sem 2 Research Project

Author Analysis & Research1st semester it was a thesis paper!

Now it’s time to create a class presentation so excellent your

college prof will ask how you did it!

Project Goals• Acquaint yourself in-depth with a major author & a short key work

• Share your findings via class presentation

• Vital biography info on your author

• Read an exemplar cutting of the author’s writing style

• Teach a key short work

• Help classmates with in-class analysis

• Classroom handout for study purposes

• Grade = 20% of your semester

PPT Project Basic Info• Must choose a different author from 1st

semester project – full grade penalty!

• May work in pairs, trios or alone

• Need to be readyon date scheduledon HE Web Calendar

• Class requirement forpassing grade in Honors English

Presentation Guidelines• May use up to 30 minutes for your

presentation of author & work – must leave Mr. Payne at least 10 minutes at end.

• Presentation must contain…• your own design template• no fewer than 10 slides• engaging, appropriate graphics (1 per page)• at least one intelligent sound byte• live weblink to quality site• for A, needs to have recorded reading excerpt of your workgroup mHINT: Find graphics & sound bytes specific to your author!

Author PPT Research• Six authoritative resources – 3 print & 3 web

• No online or print encyclopedias!- this includes Wikipedia!

• Annotated bibliography in MLA formatWhat does

annotated mean? An annotated bibliography is one that includes a sentence or two after each entry that details the information found in that source.

See example on HE web!

Author Biography Info• Key dates – including birth & death

• List of all “major” works

• Pertinent biographical details- key factors that brought recognition- what this author is remembered for

ABT

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Presentation Class Handout• Likeness of your author (front)

• Bio info highlights with space for classmate to add or fill-in notes (front)

• Key work you are analyzing (back)

• May contain key lit/vocab info (back)

• Due day beforepresentation!

That’s so Mr. Paynehas time to copy this sheet

for the class!

Presentation Advice• Your PPT is to be presented, NOT read!

• You are in charge – not the computer!

• Face the students, not the screen!

• Speak slowly, confidently, and loudly

• Breathe deep – have fun

Everyone has survived –even me and no one knows if

I am really me! The horror!The horror!

PPT Deadlines & Grading

• 1/3 deduct if “test drive” not pre-arranged

• Class handout due day BEFORE your presentation unless you are providing!

• Bring to class on day of presentation- mini-slide print out- annotated bibliography- slide template explanation

More Project Hints• Save your files to your school drive or email to honorseng@fvlhs.org. Try

thumb drive or DROPBOX!

• Be sure to test everything BEFORE you come to class -- bad things can easily happen if you don’t. Have a back-up plan.

• Practice! Practice! Practice! The best way to beat the “I’m-gonna-be-in-front-of-class” jitters is to know your material so well you can ignore everything else!

• Ask if you need help! The English Dept web page and FVL Intranet page have help links!

You must be ready on the posted date – we will not have time to reschedule presentations. Failure to complete this project will result in a full grade drop of your final grade.

Quirky PPT advice• Remember Room 2308 has PPT 2010 – if your PPT is done at home, things may not look or run the same…

• Be aware of sound files and fonts. Always choose to “embed fonts” when saving. Sound files typically aren’t embedded into your PPT – need to bring along separately and link to PPT.

• Easiest way to avoid these problems is to bring in your own laptop and hook up to projector & speakers. (Arrange to try this before your presentation to make sure all the right cords are available & you are comfortable with the set up!)

Which Authors are “Available”?

• You have a wide variety of authors & units• CHOICE Day is coming – for partners & authors! Come ready or get the leftovers!

• Remember to check the due dates!• Choice Day will be – January 29th

Unclaimed authors can be grabbed for

EXTRA CREDIT

Author Units AvailableEarly Ladies of Literature • Jane Austen – Pride & Prejudice book excerpt• Charlotte Bronte – Jane Eyre book excerptPoetry Warriors • Suckling, Lovelace, & Herrick – selected short poems• Donne, Herbert, Herrick – selected short writingsPilgrims of Progress • John Milton – Paradise Lost, On his Blindess, On Having Arrived at Age 23 • John Bunyan – Pilgrim’s Progress book excerpt• The Hymnwriters18th Century Greats• Alexander Pope -- Rape of the Lock, select epigrams Dr. Samuel Johnson – Letter to Lord Chesterfield, Dictionary of the English Language

The Early Journalists• Joseph Addison – see book for cuttings• Richard Steele – see book for cuttings

Author Units AvailableThe Castaways• Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe book excerpt• Jonathon Swift – Gulliver’s Travels book excerptThe Pre-Romantics• Robert Burns – To a Mouse, To a Louse, A Man’s a Man fo’ a’ That• Thomas Gray – Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard• William Blake – Lamb, Tiger, Poison Tree – may add anotherThe Early Romantic Poets• William Wordsworth – selected poems• Samuel Taylor Coleridge – “Kubla Khan”Later Romantics• Lord Byron – selected poems• John Keats – “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” More than Romantics!• Percy B. Shelley – “Ode to the West Wind,” “Ozymandias,” “Dirge”• Mary Shelley – “The Mortal Immortal”

Author Units AvailableVictorian Visions• Alfred Lord Tennyson selected poems• Charles Darwin – Origin of Species excerptGreat Scots• Sir Walter Scott – Ivanhoe excerpt• Robert Lewis Stevenson – your choiceAll in the Family• Eliz. B. Browning & Robert Browning – selected poems• Dante & Christina Rossetti – selected poemsNot Just Kid Stuff• Lewis Carroll – Alice excerpt, “Jabberwocky”• A. A. Milne – “The Ugly Duckling”• Roald Dahl – your choiceTurn of the Century• Rudyard Kipling – “Ballad of East & West” & “Recessional”• Thomas Hardy – “Old Mrs. Chundle” & “Convergence of the Twain”

Author Units AvailableRebels with a Cause• T.S. Eliot – “The Hollow Men”• George Orwell – “Shooting an Elephant” or War EssayIrish Rebels• James Joyce – “Araby”• W.B. Yeats – selected poems Get a Clue – Great Detectives• Arthur Conan Doyle – “Last Bow”• G.K. Chesterton – “Hammer of God”Lost Ladies of Literature• Virginia Woolf – “A Society”• Katherine Mansfield – “Doll House”The Modern Imagination• C.S. Lewis – Christmas Comes to Narnia excerpt• J.R.R. Tolkien – Ring Rhyme• J.K. Rowling – Prequel to Harry Potter