Digital Explication

Our next project will consist of a presentation of sorts. Picking one short story from the sign-up sheet, you will present an "unfolding" of the story. These reports must contain . . .

• The title of the story and the date of its original publication
• The author’s name and dates
• The genre of the work and leading traits inherent (conventional or invented)
• The name (if any) of the main character, together with a description of that character’s dominant traits or features
• Other characters, dealt with the same way
• A short description of the setting
• The narrator of the story (POV)
• A concise summary of the main events, given in chronological order
• A description of the general tone of the story (the author’s feelings toward the central character or main events)
• Some comments on the style in which the story is written (quotes are helpful)
• Whatever kinds of irony the work contains and what they contribute to it
• The work’s main theme in a sentence
• Leading symbols (if any), with an educated guess at what each symbol suggests
• Finally, an evaluation of the reading as a whole, concisely setting forth your opinion of it

The final presentation should be delivered in the form of a narrated slideshow saved and shared as a four-to-seven minute video. It doesn't matter which software you use for this project as long as the final video is sharable as a video. I've had students use PowerPoint, iMovie, MovieMaker, and WeVideo for projects like this before, but feel free to use anything as long as it is, in the end, viewable and listenable as a video.

Due dates:

• Story Table (storyboard - the exact words you will narrate along with a brief description of the images that coincide with your narration) -shared with your peer group and me in Google Drive by 11/13 -group instructions and arrangement will follow
• Final five-to-seven minute video -uploaded to Google Drive and shared with me, michael.youngs@apps.fmcc.edu by 11/20

Finally, here are some writing and performing ideas for your presentation development.