Name of your God, Goddess, Hero, Heroine

Your NameColumbia Secondary School for Math, Science, and

EngineeringELA II, Professor Ng

May ___, 2010

Culture or Religion of Character

• Specific character, include names ( in some cultures, naming changes due to socio-historical adjustments or by regions)

Family Members

Character Description

Picture

Multiple Representations

Symbols, Colors, Food… related to __________

Myth, Story or Legend

Allusions

Importance

Works-Cited Slide- List alphabetically using the EXACT format given on page 231 of Write

Source:

Kershaw, Stephen P. The Greek Myths. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2007.

Throughout the presentation, you MUST document your source (see page 229 of Write Source 2000)using parenthetical documentation: after the information used from another source, you must put the author’s last name then the page number:

Myths include a motive and are “socially powerful traditional stories” (Kershaw 99).

Important PowerPoint Pointers

Selection of Format• Choose a solid background that is not distracting. • Choose the background color that symbolically can

be related to you character.

• Choose a font style that is not distracting.

• Use font size, italics, and bold for emphasis of important facts.

Consistency means Professional Polish

• You want the audience to focus on the content, not the delivery.

• The best way to do this is to be as consistent as possible in your use of all elements of your presentation, from fonts, colors, layouts, animations, and slide transitions.

Use Both Images and Text

• Some people are more verbally (text) oriented, and some are more visually (image) oriented.

• If your presentation uses both images and text, it will communicate to more people than just using one or the other.

• MAKE SURE… your images are relevant

Be Bold.

• PowerPoint slides tend to function best when they are straightforward and bold.

• Follow the famous advice to billboard designers:

"Make something that can be read from a car zooming by at 60 miles an hour, at night, during a

rain storm, and through a dirty windshield."

• Make everything on your slide nice and large.

• Use bullets (no complete sentences)

• Add extra space between bullets.

• Don’t clutter your slide with too much info. Continue onto a new slide if needed.

SAVING YOUR SLIDES

• Save on a USB Flash Drive

• Be safe, email it to yourself as an attachment.

• Do not use Google Docs.