Kozol Presentation
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Your
group task is to find a way to "represent" your assigned chapter in
Kozol's Shame
of Nation to the class.
Partly, that means to find a way to make sure that your classmates get
all the important ideas from the chapter. ("Important ideas" includes tying your chapter
to all the chapters in Spring. Be sure to make the
connections clearly by giving a page number from Spring for each
connection. You must have a
minimum of one connection to each of Spring's chapters. Please note that I am
using the plural "chapters" here. While each chapter tends to focus on
one particular point, each chapter illuminates many of the points Spring has
brought up. Though you may decide
to divide up Spring's chapters for your class presentation, I expect your
individual papers to include connections to all of Spring's chapters. (Read carefully, think deeply.)
Partly, it means you can present the material in any way you feel will get
the points across -- posters, PowerPoint, skits, role playing, group
activities, lecture, some combination thereof, whatever you think will
work. I expect all members of the
group to be fully involved at every step in the process. You
will be have 25
minutes for your presentation. I
expect you to use the entire time, but will dock you if you go over that time
or are significantly (more than five minutes) under that time. As
usual, you will need to write a brief -- 2 pages or more -- paper after your
presentation. In that paper, you
will need to discuss who did what, how the members participated (you don't
have to give me percentages for this paper), when you met, how many times you
practiced your presentation as a group, what went right, what went
wrong, and how you would change your presentation if you were to do it
over. In addition, you need to tell me in the
paper what you thought were the important points in Kozol, and what
connections you saw between your Kozol chapter and Spring's chapters. Include all of Spring's chapters here. Identify your papers as follows: in
the top left corner of your paper put the following information.
On the next line, centered, put your
assigned chapter number as part of the title of your paper. [Kozol, Chapter
5] On each subsequent page, in the upper
right corner, put your last name and the page number. I require that you
print off and include a copy of these instructions with your paper to insure
me that you have read them. I expect well-written essays. I expect them to be neatly typed,
carefully edited, and following all the usual conventions of college-level
writing. I expect your name and the page number on each page, I expect the
pages to be printed on only one side of the paper, and I expect the pages to
be stapled together. You should get help from the This paper will be due the class period after your presentation. Your grade on these papers will be a combination grade reflecting both the quality of the paper and the presentation. I will grade these with an A through F scale. The grade criteria are as follows: A = Excellent/Superb, beyond my wildest dreams, far beyond what I should reasonably expect of second year college students; B = Better than Average, goes beyond the requirements, better than the class average; C = Meets the requirements, but doesn't go beyond them; pretty much the same as the class average; D = Doesn't meet the requirements, but shows some effort, below the class norm; F = shows little to no engagement in the assignment. If you have any questions about your grades, please come see me, but be prepared to show me precisely how your paper meets the above criteria. |