10/22	Almost a woman
10/29	Graphic	Materials are sent the week before
11/5	Poetic memoir	Materials are sent the week before
11/12	Fun Home	Dani, Haley, Beck, Linsey
11/19	Stitches	Cynthia, Clare, Andrea
11/26	The girl who fell	Mia, Sienna, Kat

The Group Presentations:

The Intention of the presentation

1.     When you take authority over material, transform your relationship with it in order to create an experience with others, the reading heightens, becomes more significant and you search for opportunities that may not come up in your weekly reading. This presentation allows you to approach the material using your own creativity and your own way of learning to both take it in and present it out.

2.     We find the classes that provide the greatest variety are most interesting. By giving you the opportunity to conduct this session, we benefit from the perspective you bring to the work.

The Expectations

1.     you collaborate in designing the presentation, prepare well and do your reading and research well in advance

2.     you have 40 minutes (or more) to engage the class

3.     you can use any approach you wish—go toward the talents of the group—good researchers? Good actors? Artists? Puppeteers?

4.     You focus on the material in the book, both in approach and in literary significance

5.     You give your class something new to think about—from research or the way you present the material

6.     You are organized and you have contingency plans in case something isn’t working out

7.     You use everyone in the group

8.     You may assign group work, writing, or any activity that will help the advancement of engaging with the literature

9.     You will designate the in-class writing for that day

Some Topics of Interest that will guide your discussions:

• The validity of memory

• The child’s voice

• Defining place through experiences

• What makes a story of childhood

• Angle of discovery

• Adult perspective

• Looking back at the narrative

• Recreating/embellishing/?fictionalizing

• Poetic elements

The Evaluation

The group gets a grade as a whole. Your colleagues will respond to an evaluation that will include the following accomplishments:

·       The group was prepared and organized

·       The group engaged with the book that provided an interesting perspective or deeper understanding

·       The group showed creativity in their approach

·       All the members of the group contribut3e