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Final Project

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Your Final Project will consist to select a topic and develop a research paper, a power point and a spreadsheet about the topic selected. The three parts need to be connected. It is a mostly free topic. You may choose whatever you would like to talk about, keep it fun. The exceptions are as follows:

• No PROJECTS about o Sex o Drugs o Religion o Politics o Family o Family Pets o No previously done projects from previous and/or present courses. o No projects about the country which you are from. o No projects where you have to list things like the 7 wonders or the world. o No projects about Technology (Keep them fun and light)

Keep the assignment fun and light. Something of interest, a hobby, favorite place, favorite past time, etc. Be specific on a topic.

Rules for the Final Project

1. Research Paper: Should be between two and four pages not included the Work Cited. The MLA documentation style must be used. (40 points)

2. PowerPoint, you must: (60 Points) o Find photographs o Your Presentation should not be your entire research assignment. o USE THE 7X7 RULE

 7 lines per slide (maximum)  7 words per line (maximum)

o Use key words and/or phrases to make your point o DO NOT crowd the slides with too much text or pictures o Use the NOTES Pages underneath each slide to include some

information you are going to talk about if/when presenting in front of an audience.

o The purpose of the presentation is to give details, information or teach about a subject.

o Be sure that your slides contain both text and pictures o There should not be any slides with pictures only o Be sure to submit a PowerPoint Presentation and not a Slide Show. (Be

careful on how you save it!) o DO NOT make the slides change automatically o The Presentation MUST have a minimum of 10 slides.

 Slide 1: Title  Slides 2 – 9: Presentation  Slide 10: Works Cited, Links and resources

o Create a video that need to be related to the topic (10 points) o Be sure to add your picture somewhere in the PowerPoint Presentation