1. Book Response Presentation
September Choice Book

2. Objective
I can present information, findings, and supporting evidence clearly, concisely, and logically such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning and the organization, development, substance, and style…
I can use digital media in a presentation to enhance my understanding and findings!

3. What Am I asking you to do...
Read a book of your own choosing for the month of September!
Create a PowerPoint, Prezi or other visual representation to…
Introduce the book: Title & Author ONLY.
Describe ONE Theme of the novel.
Craft moves: Explain 2 literary elements, techniques or devices in the book.
Discuss Conflict: internal or external?
Characters in the book!
Do you recommend this novel?

4. Textual Evidence
For parts C & D you must include textual evidence from the novel!!!!!! I want to see the examples on your visual during your presentation!

5. HERE is an Example...

6. “Never Let me Go”
by:Kazuo Ishiguro

7. Theme: Identity
The characters question not only “Who am I?” but more specifically “What am I?”
Understanding what it means to be a clone is a big part of Kathy figuring out who she is.
She must decide if her identity is connected to the person she was modeled from, or if it doesn’t matter.
She struggles the entire novel to understand who she is and her relation to normal humans.
The novel leaves us questioning if Kathy ever finds herself or does she just accept her fate?

8. Writer’s Craft Moves: Literary Elements
Symbolism: Judy Bridgewater Cassette Tape
"Judy Bridgewater. My old friend. It's like she's never been away" (Ishiguro, 99).
Kathy has complicated friendships
She listened to her cassette tape when she was a young girl at Hailsham.
Listening to the tape is nostalgic. She has lost her friends and home, but can still remember the good times.

9. Writer’s Craft Moves: Literary Element
2. First Person Narrative/Unreliable Narrator
Kathy is telling the story of her life at 31 reminiscing on her past
Unreliable because her memory is very shaky and she often forgets details about her past
“Or maybe I'm remembering it wrong”(Ishiguro,16).
This story would have different facts if told by another character

10. Conflict: External
The main characters are not in control of their fate.
There is an external force deciding their futures.
"None of you will go to America, none of you will be film stars. And none of you will be working in supermarkets as I heard some of you planning the other day. Your lives are set out for you" (Ishiguro,20).

11. Characters Kathy: Protagonist Ruth: Antagonist Tommy: Static Character
Madame Marie Claude
Miss Emily
Miss Lucy
Chrissie & Rodney: Dynamic Characters
Antagonist: Society

12. Conclusion

13. How will you be graded? Must have all components
Must use excerpts from novel (part C & D)
Presentation needs to be 3-5 minutes long
You will be marked down if it under 3 and over 5!
Utilize a visual aid
Model knowledge of the text
How you present: Are you confident? How is your pacing?
Rubric is a guide to see how you’re scored. 40 Points!

14. Google Classroom
We will utilize google classroom to post your presentations!
Period 1 class code: y8c2qh
Period 2 class code: vy7ftx5
Period 6 class code: 1m6rn4u
Presentations need to be posted to google classroom assignment by September 27 at 7:20AM