Presentation

Presentation ……….220 pts.

Choose a book that was NOT partially or completely provided in this class and which focuses on ONE of these topics:

• healthy food and the use of pesticides, insecticides, and the genetic engineering of crops
• ancient Egyptian or Roman drama
• prophecy or free will vs. predestination
• pre-marital courtship rituals over time and across cultures

Your presentation should contain the following:

1. A title that reveals the topic of your presentation – 5 pts.
2. One paragraph explaining how this book is related to the documentary and/or dramas assigned in this class; use at least one quote from the book and one quote from a reading/documentary assigned in class – 40 pts.
3. One paragraph presenting one new thing you learned from this book and how you feel about it (like/dislike/agree/disagree) and why. Use at least one quote from the book to illustrate this new information – 30 pts.
4. Find a peer-reviewed article in Galileo about the topic of the book you chose and provide a quote from this article. Explain in a few sentences whether you agree or not with this quote and why or why not. Show how this quote is similar or different from what the book teaches about your topic – 60 pts.
5. In one paragraph, explain how the message of this book can be applied to our society today. 45 pts.
6. Cite MLA both the book and the peer-reviewed article you used for this presentation – 30 pts.
7. Use at least two relevant graphics (pictures, tables, graphs, etc.) throughout your presentation – 10 pts.

You can use either Word or PowerPoint for your presentation, and you need to submit it as an attachment and on the Assignments.

Not using a book as your primary source for this presentation will lead to a penalty worth 50% of the grade, that is 110 points!

Not using a peer-reviewed article from Galileo will incur a 75-point penalty.

To find a peer-reviewed article in Galileo, follow these steps:

1. While you are logged into GeorgiaView, click on Galileo (top right).

2. Click on Databases A-Z, then click on the letter A, and scroll down to Academic Search Complete and click on it.

3. Make sure you select Advanced Search

4. Type words or short phrases in the search box, but do NOT click on Search until you have finished the following steps, too.

5. Scroll down and under Limit your results, check the boxes for Full Text and Scholarly (Peer-Reviewed) Journals

6. Under Document type, choose Article, and under Language, select English

7. Now you can click on Search

Once you click on the title of an article, you can click on Email or Cite on the right and then select MLA to get a citation of the article, but keep in mind that citations generated automatically this way may contain multiple capitalization errors.