To Kill A Mockingbird - Pecha Kucha

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To Kill A Mockingbird – Pecha Kucha Presentation Each student will have to select a presentation topic from the list, one topic per student. A Pecha Kucha presentation is a talk shown with a PowerPoint presentation consisting entirely of Images. For each slide, the presenter talks for 20 seconds per image / slide. A typical presentation consists of 20 images and 20 seconds per slide, that's 6 minutes and 40 seconds of talking. For this task, you can complete 10 images, and 20 seconds for each slide, for a total duration of 3 minutes and 20 seconds. If you are interested you can look at some examples at this website: www. pechakucha .org . For a guide on how to set the timing for your presentation refer to this clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGVCKCn6jBc , or use the example PowerPoint available on Compass. Your task is to give the class a visual presentation of your topic and to provide some insight into how it affected the U.S.A. If you can make a link between your topic and the novel then that would be especially useful. The Task is to be performed on the First Wednesday of Term 3. 1. NAACP ( National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People) 2. Brown Vs. Board of Education 3. Harper Lee 4. Trial by jury in the South during the 1930s 5. Wall Street Crash of (1929) – Black Tuesday and Black Thursday 6. The ‘Sit-in’ Movement 7. Jim Crow Laws 8. Slavery in the U.S.A. 9. The ‘Dust Bowl’ 10. Technology in the 1930s 11. Rosa Parks 12. The Harlem Renaissance 13. The Great Depression 14. Harper Lee’s New Book

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To Kill A Mockingbird – Pecha Kucha Presentation

Each student will have to select a presentation topic from the list, one topic per student. A Pecha Kucha presentation is a talk shown with a PowerPoint presentation consisting entirely of Images. For each slide, the presenter talks for 20 seconds per image / slide. A typical presentation consists of 20 images and 20 seconds per slide, that's 6 minutes and 40 seconds of talking. For this task, you can complete 10 images, and 20 seconds for each slide, for a total duration of 3 minutes and 20 seconds. If you are interested you can look at some examples at this website: www. pechakucha .org . For a guide on how to set the timing for your presentation refer to this clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGVCKCn6jBc, or use the example PowerPoint available on Compass.

Your task is to give the class a visual presentation of your topic and to provide some insight into how it affected the U.S.A. If you can make a link between your topic and the novel then that would be especially useful. The Task is to be performed on the First Wednesday of Term 3.

1. NAACP ( National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People)

2. Brown Vs. Board of Education

3. Harper Lee 4. Trial by jury in the South during the 1930s

5. Wall Street Crash of (1929) – Black Tuesday and Black Thursday

6. The ‘Sit-in’ Movement

7. Jim Crow Laws 8. Slavery in the U.S.A.9. The ‘Dust Bowl’ 10. Technology in the 1930s11. Rosa Parks 12. The Harlem Renaissance13. The Great Depression 14. Harper Lee’s New Book15. The New Deal 16. The Harper Lee didn’t write the book

conspiracy17. Ku Klux Klan in the 1930s 18. The ‘Deep South’ of the U.S.A19. Ku Klux Klan in the 1960s Martin Luther King20. Scottsboro Boys21. Emmett Till22. Civil Rights Movement23. The Little Rock 9