We were going to presantate "the woman on a roof" text by dorris Lessing today, on thursday on the tenth of december.We thought we were so ready that our slide show was nearly perfect, so did what was written in the show as information.While we were presanting, Sonja-our lovely teacher =) - caused us to sweat with her tough questions about the connections between our text and the others. She asked about the analysis of the text and of course in connection with the relation of this text to the others - i assumed that our text is the most significant one among the others and the most symbolic one.-
She didn't like or didn't see enough our analysis and our deductions of the text so she commented us to work hardly on the next time which is going to be V for Vendetta.
I was excited because my parts were long and more detailed.Historical context was in my part and i thought that i have searched it enough but she said that it was nothing but enough! So i was a little disappointed but understood where i did wrong.
Our friends said that we have no outline, no proper references.Long sentences in the slide bored the audience.they also added that we repeated the summary twice or more! :D
Sonja asked these questions for suggestition;
-What do the characters represent?
-Why did she use this language?
-What is the significance of early 1960s London?
-what about these symbols?
the roof
the weather
the bikini
the color red
So in our real presantation we will pay a special attention to those points and will present you the perfect presantation!!!
102-14. Our Blogging Queen
14 years ago
Hi Ezgi,
ReplyDeleteWith my 'tough questions' :) I only wanted to encourage you to think a bit deeper. It is quite difficult to analyse a short story in detail, so I wanted to give you some places to start. Please do not think it is a matter of "liking" the presentation or not.
Try to think of the question session of the presentation as an opportunity for everyone to learn more about the text. If there's a lot of discussion after any presentation, that is a good sign. Since this is an important text, as you say, I wanted to make sure we drew out some of the deeper meanings.
I'm sure you will work hard on your final presentation, but it doesn't need to be "perfect". I think there is no such thing as a perfect presentation. Even experienced presenters constantly learn new things from watching others! (I learned so much from watching these practice presentations, for example).
Maybe one thing to consider is this: How will your presentation further the knowledge of the audience? Assume that the audience is capable of identifying the different parts of the story; what you add to that is your research.