Living Chapters / Books
GUIDELINES FOR POWERPOINT
LIVING BOOK CHAPTERS
1.) Read Theory/Theatre (and specific chapter) you have been assigned. Review the theoretical focus of the chapter and all sub chapter headings. Glean the salient information, extract it, and create a study overview of the entire chapter in a PowerPoint presentation (activism, film, media, performance, philosophy, social change, social movements. theatre, theory, etc.).
2.) Select whatever design template style(s) of PowerPoint presentation most suitable to you and your topic. Prepare a multi-media presentation. Contact Flavio at CETL if you need a tutorial to learn the process of creating, running and presenting your various media outside of the classroom setting. Rehearsal is key to achieving a powerful and successful presentation. Avoid the unrehearsed presentation in front of your audience for you will not do as well and will find typos and words you cannot pronounce, if you do not rehearse. Points will be deducted for an un-proofed presentation. No points will be provided for a presentation without citations.
Present a WORD outline and a PowerPoint fully proofed and cited in Modern Language Association (MLA 8) – this is now free and accessible on Easy Bib.
3.) Conduct careful reading and note-taking. Additional research, if needed, is acceptable, but cite it all. This additional research must be related to your area of theoretical discussion and be linked to performance theory, artistic practice, and/or a specific practitioner.
Use the model of Aristotle’s Poetics (Plot, Character, Theme (Meaning), Music, Diction, Spectacle, and Cohen’s Convention) as a performative starting point. Layer in praxical philosophies, methodologies, and unique perspectives.
If you need an additional rubric frame to the PowerPoint on Theory/Theatre you may add the five ‘strands’ articulated in the Visual and Performing Arts Framework: 1. Artistic perception, 2. Creative expression, 3. Historical and cultural context, 4. Aesthetic valuing, 5. Connections, relationships, and applications. (Not necessary if the text is easy for you to follow.)
Cite and utilize all research references for your presentation and cite everything in the MLA 8 style sheet.
Easy Bib MLA eBook is on Moodle. The citation manger is free for MLA 8 - Easy Bib
4.) Create an outline for the organization of your ideas, and rework them into a creatively prepared oral presentation on paper that allows the audience member to follow the PowerPoint presentation you and/or your partner are presenting.
5.) Define, categorize, and classify your topic. Situate it within the historical context and find three theatrical illustrated examples of plays, performances and/or field trips to further explore and express your topic to your audience.
Especially for students, it would be very engaging to offer applied examples of engagements, such as how a theory applies to a play reading, or mounting a production aesthetically, or pursuing a persuasive argument as evidence in an activist performance, documentary, film or play and how the presentation may be received by the audience member watching the artivistic work.
Coordinate all individual aspects into an integrated presentation. Proof. Have at least 25 slides. No more than three bullets on each slide. Cite each slide and include a Works Cited list of resources at the end of the slide.
First slide includes (Use RED text only):
Centered
Title of Presentation and Title of Chapter
Semiotics -Theory/Theatre
(Mark Fortier)
Your full name, class number and title of the class:
Amanda Parfitt
TA 4670 Praxis: Theory and Practice in Performance
Name of the university:
Cal State LA
Professor’s name:
Professor Dr. Theresa Larkin
Date submitted:
October 21, 2016
Last slide, includes
“Thank You!”
Ensure provisions are made to engage those audience members not interested to not remain passive observers.
Use either a You Tube clip, a film or a play as one of your secondary research sources.
6.) Develop a thesis frame that includes a definition, eg: “Topic is….” Then follow with a common ground (agreed-upon) statement about the reading topic, and conclude with a counter argument that is positioned as a disruptive idea to the common ground. This sets up a frame of critical discourse on the work you have read). Then sequence your research notes into the presentation.
Allow for a full introduction of the topic, followed by a clear articulation of the structure of your presentation. Be ready to perform the Powerpoint.
Afterwards be ready to answer at least two questions from the audience. This will then be conducted as a formal debrief (open discussion) with your audience. Expect two to four questions per presentation.
The WORD document should be in outline form and at least two pages fully cited for Professor Larkin.
No late work. This is a key assignment and needs to be ready on the deadline negotiated in class, which is October 21st, 2016. Send three ways.
Enjoy!!!
LIVING BOOK CHAPTERS
1.) Read Theory/Theatre (and specific chapter) you have been assigned. Review the theoretical focus of the chapter and all sub chapter headings. Glean the salient information, extract it, and create a study overview of the entire chapter in a PowerPoint presentation (activism, film, media, performance, philosophy, social change, social movements. theatre, theory, etc.).
2.) Select whatever design template style(s) of PowerPoint presentation most suitable to you and your topic. Prepare a multi-media presentation. Contact Flavio at CETL if you need a tutorial to learn the process of creating, running and presenting your various media outside of the classroom setting. Rehearsal is key to achieving a powerful and successful presentation. Avoid the unrehearsed presentation in front of your audience for you will not do as well and will find typos and words you cannot pronounce, if you do not rehearse. Points will be deducted for an un-proofed presentation. No points will be provided for a presentation without citations.
Present a WORD outline and a PowerPoint fully proofed and cited in Modern Language Association (MLA 8) – this is now free and accessible on Easy Bib.
3.) Conduct careful reading and note-taking. Additional research, if needed, is acceptable, but cite it all. This additional research must be related to your area of theoretical discussion and be linked to performance theory, artistic practice, and/or a specific practitioner.
Use the model of Aristotle’s Poetics (Plot, Character, Theme (Meaning), Music, Diction, Spectacle, and Cohen’s Convention) as a performative starting point. Layer in praxical philosophies, methodologies, and unique perspectives.
If you need an additional rubric frame to the PowerPoint on Theory/Theatre you may add the five ‘strands’ articulated in the Visual and Performing Arts Framework: 1. Artistic perception, 2. Creative expression, 3. Historical and cultural context, 4. Aesthetic valuing, 5. Connections, relationships, and applications. (Not necessary if the text is easy for you to follow.)
Cite and utilize all research references for your presentation and cite everything in the MLA 8 style sheet.
Easy Bib MLA eBook is on Moodle. The citation manger is free for MLA 8 - Easy Bib
4.) Create an outline for the organization of your ideas, and rework them into a creatively prepared oral presentation on paper that allows the audience member to follow the PowerPoint presentation you and/or your partner are presenting.
5.) Define, categorize, and classify your topic. Situate it within the historical context and find three theatrical illustrated examples of plays, performances and/or field trips to further explore and express your topic to your audience.
Especially for students, it would be very engaging to offer applied examples of engagements, such as how a theory applies to a play reading, or mounting a production aesthetically, or pursuing a persuasive argument as evidence in an activist performance, documentary, film or play and how the presentation may be received by the audience member watching the artivistic work.
Coordinate all individual aspects into an integrated presentation. Proof. Have at least 25 slides. No more than three bullets on each slide. Cite each slide and include a Works Cited list of resources at the end of the slide.
First slide includes (Use RED text only):
Centered
Title of Presentation and Title of Chapter
Semiotics -Theory/Theatre
(Mark Fortier)
Your full name, class number and title of the class:
Amanda Parfitt
TA 4670 Praxis: Theory and Practice in Performance
Name of the university:
Cal State LA
Professor’s name:
Professor Dr. Theresa Larkin
Date submitted:
October 21, 2016
Last slide, includes
“Thank You!”
Ensure provisions are made to engage those audience members not interested to not remain passive observers.
Use either a You Tube clip, a film or a play as one of your secondary research sources.
6.) Develop a thesis frame that includes a definition, eg: “Topic is….” Then follow with a common ground (agreed-upon) statement about the reading topic, and conclude with a counter argument that is positioned as a disruptive idea to the common ground. This sets up a frame of critical discourse on the work you have read). Then sequence your research notes into the presentation.
Allow for a full introduction of the topic, followed by a clear articulation of the structure of your presentation. Be ready to perform the Powerpoint.
Afterwards be ready to answer at least two questions from the audience. This will then be conducted as a formal debrief (open discussion) with your audience. Expect two to four questions per presentation.
The WORD document should be in outline form and at least two pages fully cited for Professor Larkin.
No late work. This is a key assignment and needs to be ready on the deadline negotiated in class, which is October 21st, 2016. Send three ways.
- Designated Emails (PowerPoint and WORD Outline).
- In Class via Hard Copy Outline and Powerpoint (on USB).
- Turnitin (WORD Outline).
Enjoy!!!