Research

Presentation
Your Assignment
You are going to be presenting your hero to the class. You will be creating a powerpoint
presentation that includes your hero’s 6 big moments that you researched and your
definition for the term “hero”.
● Be VERY careful not to plagiarise
● Include all your sources at the end of the presentation

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How will this assignment be set
up?
Title Page (Include the name of your hero)
Your Definition
6 Big Moments in your Hero’s life
Sources
Conclusion slide

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Prior Experience
● You have seen many powerpoint presentations in your lives, what do you think
makes a good powerpoint presentation?

● Discuss a list with the people around you.

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What ensures a good presentation?
● Visuals
● Consider your audience
○ How can my presentation be enticing to my specific audience?
○ Ask yourself: is my presentation persuasive?
● Keep an organized presentation
● Don’t overload your slides with information
○ This can be exhausting for the audience

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Example Slide

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1. Escaping Slavery
● Harriet Tubman escaped slavery in 1849.

● She underwent BRUTAL conditions that no person

should ever have to experience.
● She ran 145km on foot to Pennsylvania. Her
perseverance and strength will not be forgotten.

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In Class Practice:
● In your groups, create a powerpoint slide using this information from Harriet Tubman's
life:
○ “she returned to Maryland and escorted her sister and her sister's two children to freedom. She made the
dangerous trip back to the South soon after to rescue her brother and two other men. On her third return, she went
after her husband, only to find he had taken another wife. Undeterred, she found other slaves seeking freedom and
escorted them to the North.”
■ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1535.html

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Where should I start?
1. Highlight the most important information
2. Reword the information into bullet points so that it’s short and sweet
3. Consider how to make the wording enticing (how are you going to engage the audience with your
wording?)
4. Discuss a potential visual