January 28, 2016 - Thursday

Class Work

Please give me the paper copy of your draft along with the Peer Edited rubric.

1. What information did you discover when you conducted an interview? (Brief table discussion - select one person from your table to share with the class.)
2. Quick tips for effective PowerPoint of Prezi slides: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjcO2ExtHso

3. Return to your group.

Be sure your group's presentation contains the following:

 

Where did it begin?

Why was it done?

Did age have anything to do with the "ritual?" Was it a ritual?

How was it done? What were the materials/tools that were used?

What did it look like and how has it changed over the years? (Consider using a time-line for this.)

  

Prepare a brief presentation for the class. Feel free to use PowerPoint to show pictures or to point out amazing facts! Keep track of your sources. Create a Works Cited page for the group. What sources did you use?

When finished, post the PowerPoint in CANVAS. Be sure to include all names of the group members on the first slide. Only one group member needs to post. It is your responsibility to make sure that your name is on that first slide.

The last slide will be a Works Cited slide.

Share suggestions/slides with your group. Presentations will be given on Tuesday, February 2, 2016.

 

Guidelines:

•  three slides per bulleted point in #3 above. 
• illustrations
• each person will speak
• no more than six bullets per slide
• no more than six words per bullet
• use large font
• use contrasting colors between the font and the background

You have ____________ minutes to organize with your group.

Homework Posting Instructions:

1. ONE person from each group will post the entire presentation.
2. On Canvas, if you are the posting person, simply post the finished presentation.
3. If you are NOT the posting person, state the name of the group's posting person in your space along with the topic.

Due: 8:30 am on Tuesday, February 2, 2016.
Value: 50 points

4. Personal Body Art Story (Narrative/personal writing)

Now, think of a a personal Body Art story. Share at your table.

• Identify the characters
• Explain the before and after of the event
• Quote people- what was said?
• Create the setting. Where did the event occur?
• Explain the reactions of those who saw the result.
• Be a good story teller!

Tips for writing:

• Write in past tense. This has already happened. http://www.grammar.cl/english/past-tense.htm
• Write in first person. You are the star of the story.
• Write in third person if you are telling of an event that happened to someone else.
• Helpful information: http://www.mesacc.edu/~paoih30491/PointofView.html
• Be descriptive. https://litreactor.com/columns/writing-powerful-descriptions
• Use direct quotations.
• https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/577/01/

Homework: Write the draft of your personal body art story in two pages. Post your draft in CANVAS. Due: Tuesday, February 2, 2016. (25 pts.)