Group Leaders
Guide
Directions: At first, this assignment may seems tough to
you, but though it requires some work and collaboration; I designed it to be an easy grade. If you follow these instructions you should get a perfect score. Try not to
be intimidated by presenting to the class, and instead, prepare well, be creative, and work togetgher and you will do well.
Intention: The point of this
assignment is as follows.
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To teach you to work effectively in groups, to collaborate on a project, to
organize and arrange time to do so, and to help you get to know your peers. That's the way your job will go in the future, so here's some practice.
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To provide you with some practice in finding good research sources and figuing our their relevance to the literature, and, of course, to see how culture affects all of our productions.
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To improve your public presentation skills, much demaned in most careers.
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To give you a chance to be creative in planning an activity and to think outside the box.
Remember: You will be graded, in part, anonymously by
each member of your group. If you don't
make meetings, stand people up, fail to contribute, or let one person do all
the work, believe me, your peers will smack you down hard, and it will affect
your grade negatively.
Also Remember: You have each others' phone number, social media, and/or email. Keep them handy. Make sure you work with your group throughout
the process. It is not sufficient simply
to show up with a handout on your information alone on the assigned date having failed to communicate with your group. You must have worked with your peers to plan the presentation and activity.
Here’s some help:
RULE 1: Work together…do not throw together some
lame, last minute presentation and activity that only one person worked
on because doing so leads to an unorganized presentation. For example, if you are doing some kind of
game, you should have questions and answers ready--don't make them up on the fly from
your handouts.
In addition:
- Decide who will look up what (be very specific): history of the time
period, definition and examples of the genre or literary period, biography, and literary analysis. Ask me if you are unsure what you are researching.
- Each person should read at least one credible source on their topic and know that
information.
- Do not simply copy and paste information from a source. Your bullets on your handout must be in your
own words entirely unless in quotes and cited. If I ask you a
question about the source, you should be able to answer it. It's really obvious when you cut and paste information then read aloud words you don't understand. Know your material.
- Each person should produce an informal (bullets of key points will do), typed handout of their information and have copies for everyone ready at the beginning of class on the presentation day (60 percent deduction of your grade if missing or not on time).
- Make certain you use the correct MLA header and affix a correct MLA work cited page (40 percent deduction in your grade if incorrect).
- Each presenter may submit their handout to me until 5:00 PM the night before it is due. I will then check the MLA, suggerst revissions as needed, and run copies of the corrected version for you.
- Prepare an activity (scavenger hunt, board game, pictionary, a craft
project (collage, cake decorating, play-do, etc) to entertain and to test the
class's knowledge. Make it fun and be
creative. No Jeopardy style game, Kahootz, word finds, or crossword puzzles allowed.
- Prepare the order of the presentation in advance: decide who will speak first, second, and so on.
- On a seperate page, just for my consumption, include an evaluation of each member of your group, noting if and how well they particiapted and the "grade" you would give their contribution to the group activity.
- See the syllabus for further details