9+Presentation+guidelines


 * Your Final Presentation will be to CHOOSE A TOPIC OF YOUR CHOICE.**

Here are some guidelines that you should pay attention to in your presentation.

** When you are choosing your topic, be selective. Don't choose a topic that is too big. (you will only have 6 minutes to present). Choose a topic that you are passionate about and that you think your audience (in this case your classmates) would be interested in. **


 * YOU NEED TO LET ME KNOW WHAT YOUR PRESENTATION WILL BE ABOUT BY THIS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20th. **

**Here are some GUIDELINES FOR YOUR PRESENTATIONS**

**Greet your audience.****Provide a hook** to your presentation. **Here are a few ways** you could create a how:
 * 1) **Ask your audience some questions. Give the audience time to answer and then provide the real answer** if they are not correct (you could use visuals in your question session to bring this section of the presentation more alive.
 * 2) **Give some facts and statistics**
 * 3) **Tell an anecdote (your personal anecdote or an anecdote you heard)**
 * 4) **Do a combination of 1-3**

**Begin your presentation by listing the main points you plan to cover**

**Body of the presentation** This is when you get into the presentation. Be clear. Do not assume that your audience knows anything about your topic. Be specific. Provide examples, visuals, anecdotes, (think creatively- use all the senses if you can) DO NOT WRITE TOO MUCH ON YOUR POWER POINT PRESENTATIONS DO NOT READ YOUR POWER POINT PRESENTATIONS USE ONLY YOUR NOTES AND PRESENT YOUR IDEAS LOOK AT EVERYONE, NOT ONLY TO THE TEACHER

**Closing your presentation:** Remind the audience of your main points GIVE A CONCLUSION TO YOUR PRESENTATION. What are you expectations or hopes in regards to your topic? If this question is not relevant, think of a question or a fact that you would like to leave the audience with.

REMEMBER, YOUR CONCLUSION IS THE SUMMARY AND THOUGHT PROVOKING IDEAS YOU HAVE ABOUT YOUR TOPIC. What do you want to leave the audience thinking about? What food for thought do you want to leave the audience with?

YOU WILL BE EVALUATED ON : Your reserach Your organization Your clarity Your delivery-Body language, vocabulary, eye contact, voice and speed, your creativity in making this a memorable presentation Your use of notes (NOT READING, BUT PRESENTING)

Start working on this project now. It will take some time OUTSIDE OF CLASS to work on this. YOU WILL NEED TO PRACTICE YOUR PRESENTATION OUTSIDE OF CLASS IN ORDER FOR IT TO BE A GOOD PRESETATION

As a Final thought, I would like to share the MIT Graduation speech by Kurt Vonnegut in a youtube video called Sunscreen.

Here are the lyrics:

**Wear Sunsceren**

**MIT Graduation Speech by Kurt Vonnegut(author)** Ladies and gentlemen:

Wear sunscreen. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience.

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they've faded. But trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked.

Don't worry about the future Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Sing.

Don't be reckless with other people's hearts. Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.

Floss.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead sometimes you're behind. The race is long and, in the end, it's only with yourself.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank statements.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Stretch.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives. Some of the most interesting 40-year-olds I know still don't.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Get plenty of calcium. Be kind to your knees. You'll miss them when they're gone.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll divorce at 40, maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance. So are everybody else's.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it or of what other people think of it. It's the greatest instrument you'll ever own. <span style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Read the directions, even if you don't follow them.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Get to know your parents. You never know when they'll be gone for good.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Be nice to your siblings. They're your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few, you should hold on.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle, because the older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young

<span style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Travel.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Accept certain inalienable truths: Prices will rise. Politicians will philander. You, too, will get old. And when you do, you'll fantasize that when you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble, and children respected their elders.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Respect your elders.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either one might run out.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Don't mess too much with your hair or by the time you're 40 it will look 85.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">...But trust me on the sunscreen.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">and here is the video <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|Wear Sunscreen]