The oral presentation of your topic and book will be in the sequence listed by bullets below. The overall time you should plan to be in front of the class is about 10 minutes.

You will write out your information for each of the elements and give me a copy, but you may not read to the class what you have written. You may and should have notes to use when you speak to the class about the information you are giving.

The order of presentations will be in descending order of student grades as of November 25, last Tuesday; the best grade will speak first.

Following the bulleted details of your presentation are how many speeches will be given on which days. If you are not present on your assigned day, you must take your grade for this assignment from the written information you will give me and the grade will be 80% of what it would have been had you presented orally (based on the information in the written copy). The potential points for each concept are in the parentheses at the end of each bullet.

· Title of your book. (5)

· Author of your book
Provide a brief biography of the author and explain why the author is able to write the book and urge people to buy into his ideas. (15)

· General content of the book
Explain why the ideas are “mainstream” or “fringe,” currently considered, or looked for in the future. (15)

· General view of others toward the book
This information will come from what reviewers and other readers have said. (15)

· Your assessment of the book
Exemplify with details your acceptance or rejection of the book and its ideas. (20)

· Corollary information about the topic of your book.
This will be information you have gathered from other sources that agrees with or refutes your book. (20)

· Your recommendation of your book.
Explain why you urge anyone to read the book or to exclude it from their reading. (10)

· One important fact you learned from the book …
and explain why it is important to know. (10)

IMPORTANT: If at any time you mention that someone else will or did give information you could or would offer—and you don’t give that information—you will lose 20 points.

December 4, Thursday: 5 presentations—periods 2, 4, 6

December 8, Monday: 5 presentations—periods 2, 4, 6

December 9, Tuesday: 5 presentations—periods 2, 4, 6

December 10, Wednesday: 3 presentations—periods 2, 4, 6

December 11, Thursday: 5 presentations—periods 2, 4, 6

December 15, Monday: 5 presentations—periods 2, 4, 6

December 16, Tuesday: 5 presentations—periods 2, 4, 6 (4 presentations)

December 17, Wednesday: 2 presentations—periods 2 (1 presentation), 4