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Nouf Alkhathamy

Dr. Chauna Craig

December 5, 2017

Group Presentation Reflection Paper

As a group of Nouf, Helen, and Abria, chose to talk about Jack London, actually his name grabbed my attention since I saw it on the board, so I chose it. Wanted to know more why his name is London? Is it related to the London city? Or what? It seems to be not fair to choose talking about someone just for his/her name. But for me, names are significant and somehow have stories behind them. London is a writer who could be successful in writing on his own.

We met at the library twice so we could work together and help each other. Working with this group was comfortable, and they were helpful. I think we could cover most of the critical information about Jack London. We have a bright idea about who is Jack London and his childhood as well. Also how his childhood affected his writing in the future as a realist writer.

We sectioned the presentation into four parts, his childhood, his writing, his works, and his final years. I decided to start the performance with talking about his childhood. I told them that I want to face my fear by being the first one who is starting the presentation and I did. Being in front of native speakers is scary for me, I am afraid of mispronouncing words or I can’t correctly give the information.

I started by asking if anyone has any idea about who is Jack London as when he was born?Or where? No one had an idea, so I started the presentation by mention his date of birth. Also some details about his parents especially his mother who raised him by herself since his father left him when he was young. I explained more about where he grew which is in a poverty area, and how that could be helped him in his writing as a realist writer. I talked for about one minute and a half, then Abria had to start to talk about her part which is his writing.

Abria explained more about when he started writing and how leaving school in a young age of 14 affected him somehow in a positive way so he could spend more time reading in the library (Oakland public library) and starting writing at the age of 17. She gave a clear idea about what kind of writing he used to write. Also how many books he could publish in his life which is 50 book as she mentioned. She had almost 3 minutes to cover most of the idea that she had to cover. Then Helen had to start her part for about 3 minutes also.

Helen explained more about his works and included two questions during her presentation; then she finished with a short video for about one minute and half of one of his works which is the ( White Fang) that gave us how his writing made as a movie. His writing could be shown on the TV as movies which are in my opinion is a success for a writer. Helen could cover few of his works because there was not enough time to mention all his works.

Finally, I finished up the presentation by talking about his final years and his death. Jack did not live for more than forty years. But he spends his lifetime by reading and writing which is impressing. I talked more about his personal life as well, his marriage and his kids. He married twice and had two daughters. I finished my presentation by mentioning the date of his death (1961).

I think we did great as a group included two international students and one native speaker. I thought it would be hard in the beginning, but I enjoyed it. I think what can make it easy is to organize your thoughts and practice more and more. This gave me the opportunity to be more confident in front of people.

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