Group Presentation/Teaching Demonstration

With a group, you will assist in the teaching of one of the regions and/or books. This presentation will not be an "oral report." Instead, the group will prepare a set of notes for or from the following:

	Your reading(s) of the assigned text.  Your group will lead discussion, but should also record discussion for your particular day, so we may post this to the web.
	Links and questions provided on the classmates could use for their journal entries
	Any additional library or Internet research that seems useful

The group will launch our discussion and sustain it. That might take any of the following forms (make brief comments, not long speeches):

Relevant background about the author, book, setting, themes, reception

Questions to provoke discussion

Follow-ups to comments made, by comparison or contrast with previous points

Asking for comment from anyone who has not yet spoken

Quizzes, games, skits or anything else to make it experience fun

You must meet (out of class) as a group at least once, probably to decide on the questions you will ask and to divide up/share responsibilities. You may want to meet again to gather your notes into one document (or this can take place via email)--this will be due the next class after the day of your presentation.  We will post these as a link under the author's name, so classmates may use them/refer back to them for the next paper.