Holiday
Presentation Guidelines
You may choose any holiday from a culture other than
your own. The holiday can be any celebration: political, cultural, religious,
national holiday, festival. You may choose U.S. holidays, but I also encourage
you to choose holidays from other places in the world such as Mexico, Korea,
China, India, Europe, Africa, etc.
You will give a presentation with two other
partners. Your partners will be assigned in class. Each of you will have to
talk for an equal amount of time. You may work over Easter break to finish your
presentations. There is only 1 day for holiday presentations. Each
group will present on Thursday April 12th, 2012. If you miss
this class day, you will NOT be able to make up your presentation at a later
day and will receive a grade of 0. Tuesday April 3rd you will
have one full class to prepare for this presentation. Bring your
laptops/ipads/smartphones Tuesday April 3rd day to conduct research
with your groups and start making a powerpoint.
It is recommended that you choose a holiday that you
know nothing about. This will help you learn more about the holiday and will
challenge you to learn something new about another culture!
The purpose of this presentation is to get practice
giving group presentations and to learn about world holidays!
Types
of information to gather:
1. What
is the name of the holiday? How did it get this name?
2. Where
is this holiday celebrated?
3. What
is the history of the holiday?
4. What
are some common vocabulary words associated with this holiday?
5. Why
is this holiday popular?
6. Have
you ever celebrated this holiday or do you know someone that has?
7. How
is this holiday celebrated? (What do people do on this day?)
8. What
are some unique things or traditions of this holiday?
Presentation
topic ideas:
You must come to class with a topic by Tuesday April 10th by 4pm. Below are some
presentation ideas:
·
Day of the dead
·
Ramadan
·
Chuseok, Children’s
day
·
Chinese New Year, Cinco De Mayo
·
Rosh Hashana
·
Kwanzaa
Presentation Overview:
Your presentation will have 2 parts.
1. A
history of the holiday.
2. Cultural
traditions associated with the holiday/modern traditions associated with the
holiday
·
You may include a short video clip about
your topic. This video must be below 2 minutes in length.
Timing Requirements:
1. Your
presentation must be within 8-10 minutes. No longer! I strongly encourage your
group to practice your presentation BEFORE class to practice the timing and
group dynamics.
2. We
will have a short 2 minute class discussion after your presentation. During
this time your group may respond to audience questions, suggestions, and a
critique.
Audience
Roles
While you are listening to your classmates
presentations, your group will be assigned an audience role position. This
assigned position will help you to participate in a college class, where after
presentations students are expected to ask questions and make comments about
the presenters’ ideas. After each presentation, you must communicate with the
presenters through your assigned role. For example, after the presentation ends
if you are the critic, you must offer a suggestion to the presenter.
Clarifier- Asks for clarification about something
they did not understand.
Follow up questioner- This person wants more
information about something they heard in the presentation.
Compliment giver- this person gives a compliment to
the presenter about something they liked.
Critic- This person gives a suggestion to the person
to help improve their presentation.
Summarizer- this person briefly states the
presenters’ conclusions or observations.
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