Powerpoint and paragraph
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PowerpointPresentation.docxChose ONE of the following:
Queen Victoria
Emily Brontë
Wilma Mankiller
After researching each of your three randomly assigned historical figures, consider how you will decide which ONE is most worthy to represent in your presentation project. What criteria should you develop to make this decision? How will you prioritize some types of historical contributions over others, such as contributions to radically different fields and professions? How can you compare different time periods and different cultural backgrounds when determining historical significance? Reflecting on these questions engages some of the main debates of canon formation as mentioned in the Learning Unit included in this module.
There may be no "trading" of selections as part of the assignment is to force ourselves to be in the position of a historian, librarian, or archivist and to select from material available to us. If you do not see your name on this spreadsheet, you likely added the class late or there was another registration/roster issue. Please contact the professor and you will be assigned one of the open rows marked with N/A. Do not choose for yourself as rows may already have been reassigned.
Presentation Directions
Students are to create an online presentation about their historical figure (one chosen from the three assigned) using no more than one PowerPoint slide or similar program. (I will allow a second slide only if you run out of space for your citations, but keep the historical content to one slide - the selection process is an important part of the critical thinking work we are trying to engage in.)
Your presentation should include a combination of images and text and should provide others with an appreciation of the historical significance of the historical woman represented, her major cultural contributions, and her impact or influence on her field or culture broadly.
Presentations that consist of simply a portrait photograph with limited or no historical information will receive a much lower score than presentations with an image or two with substantial captions and or related historical information; students who take the presentation to the highest level will design a single slide that includes several images and substantial information or excerpts from historical material, including source citations.
You can think about your design as what if you were in charge of creating a display about the historical figure for a library exhibit or in a museum.
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