Mar+14-18


 * Monday:**

Welcome Back! I hope you had a fun and relaxing break. Today we spent the class working on our scripts. The written script is due tomorrow and then you'll have the rest of the week to practice your performance.

Book Talks are due Wednesday! Look back to Tuesday, March 1st for the directions and samples.


 * Tuesday:**

Book Talks are due tomorrow!
Tonight I received this question by email:

I don't really understand how to make my power point, I don't understand how you want us to place all the information on the slide show, but we can't have it written word for word. I don't know how to put my summary into point form without it still being practically as long as the my original summary, or any of the other things we wrote in the handout. If you could give me a few quick tips or something that might help, that would be great.

Here was my response. I thought it might be helpful to more than just the person asking it.

Let's suppose //Twilight// was your novel. I took the summary from wikipedia:

[|Isabella "Bella" Swan] moves from sunny [|Phoenix, Arizona] to rainy [|Forks, Washington] to live with her father, [|Charlie], while her mother, [|Renée], travels with her new husband, Phil Dwyer, a minor league baseball player. Bella attracts much attention at her new school and is quickly befriended by several students. Much to her dismay, several boys compete for shy Bella's attention. When Bella is seated next to [|Edward Cullen] in class on her first day of school, Edward seems utterly repulsed by her. He disappears for a few days, but warms up to Bella upon his return; their newfound relationship reaches a climax when Bella is nearly run over by a fellow classmate's van in the school parking lot. Edward saves her life when he instantaneously appears next to her and stops the van with his bare hands. Bella becomes determined to find out how Edward saved her life, and constantly pesters him with questions. After a family friend, [|Jacob Black], tells her the local tribal legends, Bella concludes that Edward and his family are [|vampires] who drink animal blood rather than human. Edward confesses that he initially avoided Bella because the scent of her blood was too desirable to him. Over time, Edward and Bella fall in love. Their relationship is disturbed when another [|vampire coven] arrives in Forks. [|James], a tracker vampire who is intrigued by the Cullens' relationship with a human, wants to hunt Bella for sport. The Cullens attempt to distract the tracker by splitting up Bella and Edward, and Bella is sent to hide in a hotel in Phoenix. There, Bella receives a phone call from James, who claims to be holding her mother captive. When Bella surrenders herself, James attacks her. Before she is killed, Edward, along with the other Cullens, rescues her and defeats James. Once they realize that James has bitten Bella's hand, Edward successfully sucks the poison from her bloodstream and prevents her from becoming a vampire, after which she is brought to a hospital. Upon returning to Forks, Bella and Edward attend their school prom and Bella expresses her desire to become a vampire, but Edward refuses. Your first slide Might say "Main Character" with and image of Bella Swan. Your second slide might have a map that encompases Phoenix, Arizona and Forks, Washington and and arrow going from Phoeniz to Washington. Your third slide might show Bella's mother sitting in a baseball stadium. The fourth slide might be an image of Bella at school with a boy or boys looking her way. This way you're using very few words, and images to guide you though what you're going to say, AND give your reader a visual to focus on and connect with as you speak. I realize not every book has a movie to draw images from, but the whole idea is for you to share the image you see in your mind when you think of what you're presenting. :) I hope that helped.


 * Wednesday:**

Today we heard a few book talks, and had time to work on the MSND scenes.


 * Thursday:**

More book talks today. If you haven't presented yours yet, make sure you're ready for tomorrow.


 * Friday:**

We'll start hearing the MSND scenes on Monday. If you haven't finished your book tallk presentation, you've got homework this weekend.