As I Lay Dying Presentations

Instead of writing a paper on Faulkner’s text, you will be working together to complete and conclude the novel As I Lay Dying through a presentation.

I would like to introduce you to a new presentation tool. It is called Prezi. It is relatively easy to use and is much more interesting (in my opinion) than using simple Power Point.

Today we will:

*Conclude our class discussion about the end of the novel.

*Welcome to Prezi! What is it? Please watch the “What is Prezi?” 1 minute video.

http://prezi.com/

*Form our groups for this final project. You will have 4-5 people in each group. There will be a total of four groups.

The group topics will be:

Loneliness & Alienation in As I Lay Dying
Death and Dying in As I Lay Dying
The Journal of Symbols, Archetypes, Myths in As I Lay Dying
As I Lay Dying as a Modernist Text

-- Begin to think about textual examples to use for your presentation – quotes and specific references to the text and materials used in class.

-- Think about what is this topic, who exemplifies, When and where are there textual examples of the novel, and Why is this an important topic to this novel as a whole?

-- Your final presentation will be a ten-minute presentation. You will also need to create and include a one-page handout for your presentation that outlines your topic, examples, and ideas about these topics.

I will provide you will further guidelines and rubrics tomorrow.

MAKE SURE YOU SAVE YOUR WORK OFTEN.

You will have the remainder of today, tomorrow, and Thursday to work on your presentation. We will present our Prezis to each other this Friday.