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You will have 5 classes for this final project. Your assignment is to create a PowerPoint presentation about a novel you’ve read this year. By “this year”, I mean since you finished 7th grade. Maybe you read the novel over the summer, maybe it was a class novel, maybe it was something you read on your own. It’s up to you. We will have a sign up sheet in the Lab. You may not choose the same novel as anyone sitting near you. We’ll be adding some interesting twists to this PowerPoint. I’ll be showing you how to use the Master Slide. I’ll show you how to make an image the background of a slide. I’ll teach you how to search clip art and the web for animated images. I will show you how to hyperlink within a PowerPoint. And I’m still investigating ways to post this to the web. Exciting stuff. The job of your PowerPoint is to encourage other readers your age to read the novel. You should therefore choose a novel that you enjoyed reading. Of course you will not plagiarize a website, a book, a classmate, a magazine, anything. Remember that just changing a couple of words does not make the writing your own. You are good writers. So write and write well. And of course you will also be school appropriate. Here are the required slides and explanations of each. They are required, but you may list them in any order you wish, and you may use as many slides as you need to use to make your presentation complete. For instance, if you choose a novel with 40 characters, you will clearly need more character slides than someone whose novel only has four characters. 1. Title page: Title, author, your name. This is also a great spot for the cover of your novel. 2. Contents Page: You’ll hyperlink all your other pages to this page. You’ll see. Very cool. 3. About the author: Include biographical info, quotes, and a picture if you wish. Include other books by this author. Include links if you like. 4. Genre and Setting: Clue us into what kind of novel we can expect. Be sure to include both elements of setting. If yours is a real place (Baltimore, New York, Africa), you might consider a picture and perhaps a link to more information about this place. 5. Characters: Name as many characters as you think are important-- whether they are main characters or not. Give a short description. Briefly describe the growth of the character in the novel. Feel free to use character terms you’ve learned: round, flat, static, dynamic, antagonist, protagonist. 6. Plot: Summarize the plot in such a way that you give the reader enough information without giving it all away. Feel free to use terms you’ve learned: introduction, rising action, climax, denouement/falling action, conclusion. 7. Conflict: What sorts of conflicts arise in this story? How are they resolved—without giving too much away. Be sure to include main conflicts as well as sub-conflicts. Remember to indicate your knowledge of the four types of conflict in your writing: man vs man, vs society, vs nature, vs self. Include, briefly, how the conflicts contributed to the growth of the characters. 8. Theme/Moral/Lesson: Will a reader take something away from this novel? What do you think that is? BONUS: Include information about mood, tone, and motif. 9. Discussion Questions: Because book clubs are so popular these days, many authors and publishers are including discussion questions at the back of their novels. These questions are deeper questions, questions that involve some thought and reflection and at least 5 or 6 sentences to answer. Many times there are no correct answers to questions like this, as the answers consist of each persons opinion. You have two choices here. a. If your novel (or a corresponding webpage) includes discussion questions, choose 5 of those questions and type them on this page. Include a note on this page as to where you found the questions. We will hyperlink your answers to these questions. b. If you have not found questions about your novel, create 3 questions of your own. We will hyperlink your answers to these questions. 10. Responses to Discussion Questions: Answer your own discussion questions. Again, 5 to 6 sentences each should work. Typically, there are no right or wrong answers here. I’ll show you how to hyperlink. 11. Reader Reviews: Include short reviews in this section. Yours should be first. Identify the reviewers by just first name and state. You are welcome to include the reviews of other made-up people if you wish. If you find a review on the web, you may link it here. 12. Movie: Imagine you are casting the roles for this book to be made into a movie. Whom would you cast in each of the main roles? Use your CHARACTERS slides above to determine how many characters you need to mention in this link. If there’s already a movie, pick different people. 13. Links/Resources: If you have been using links on pages throughout the website, you may not need this page. If you have not been linking all along, use this space for additional links of interest that relate to your book. For instance, if your book is about skateboarding, you may link to skateboard manufacturers, skateboard parks, skateboard safety, and so on. Just be sure the links relate to your novel. Notes: Be sure your presentation is pleasing to the eye. Use color to enhance, not distract. Be sure your font and size choices are good ones Be sure graphics are used well. Don’t use too many or too few. BONUS SLIDES If you still have lots of time left and you’ve checked your pages and they are “A” quality from a technology perspective as well as from a Language Arts perspective, you can keep yourself busy by adding any of the following bonus slides Bonus slides must be treated like all the required slides: attractive, informative, include graphics. They may include hyperlinks if you like. Bonus 1: What questions do you have for the author? Consider questions about his/her background, the writing of this particular novel or others in the series, certain actions of the characters in the novel, and so on. There should be no fewer than 10 questions in this section. Use multiple slides if needed. Bonus 2: What actions or events before the story began affect the events in this novel? What do you imagine happened after this novel? You should write no less than two solid paragraphs for this bonus. Use as many slides as you need. NOTE: If your novel is a novel in a series with a prequel and/or a sequel, you cannot complete this bonus. Bonus 3: Consider how your novel might be different if. . . A character or characters were of the other gender; The setting was different; Some other element of the story was different Write a solid paragraph for each item you choose. Use as many slides as you need. Bonus 4: Did you like the ending of this novel? If so, this bonus is not for you. If not, rewrite the ending of the novel. Write it in the same style as the novel was written. This should be equal to one of the chapters in the book. Bonus 5: Describe how the author’s life experience or background ties into this book. Be sure to be specific. If you find information from the author him/herself about this, you are welcome to copy and paste (citing the source, of course, by including the URL), but then be sure to include elements from the story which support your claim. ABOUT ANIMATED GIFs... Please use Clip Art OR the websites provided. DO NOT go looking for animated GIFs on your own. If you can't find what you are looking for, ask me and I'll help you. Remember that to view the gifs in their animated state, you'll need to be in slideshow mode. Same for checking that your hyperlinks work. If, in the end, you would like to bring in a flash drive so you can take a copy of this home with you, please feel free to do so.

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It's been my pleasure to be your teacher for the last 8 years. I wish you joy, success, and happiness over the next four challenging years and beyond. You are welcome to keep in touch. And don't forget to save! All the best, Ms. Ray

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