Allegory Project (place your unique project title here) Please include your name, class period, date, and the text you select for this project.

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1 Allegory Project (place your unique project title here) Please include your name, class period, date, and the text you select for this project.

2 ON EVERY SLIDE This template is designed to provide guidelines and expectations for your presentation. Please provide strong information on each slide, with complete sentences. THIS presentation should be your best work. High quality is what is expected. You should add color and graphics that are useful and appropriate for you presentation. You should include at least two songs : one song should demonstrate the major theme and one should demonstrate the mood. You should include artwork that demonstrates the mood and/ or themes of the text. It is expected that the connection between artwork and music to the themes and/or mood will be discussed during the presentation (You decide where to incorporate this information in your presentation.) Your presentation should not exceed 12 slides.

3 A Plot Brief Summary (Use only one slide.) On this slide, briefly discuss the main events of the plot. A plot summary is a condensed description of the story in a novel, poem, short story, play, film or other piece of storytelling. It does not provide a review of performance or contain the opinions of the author. It also does not retell the complete story, which is why a summary does not contain all the detailed information about the main characters, replay the unfolding drama, or review all of the twists and turns in the plot.

4 Setting (Use only one slide.) The setting slide should include detail(s) about the setting: Specific information about the time and place of the text: Boston, MA in 1908 Simple descriptions: A lonely farmhouse on a dark night. An overall setting: A Midwestern town during the Depression. Specific settings: The courthouse Only include places and times that are significant within the text.

5 Characters (Use only one or two slides.) Briefly describe/discuss the character(s) in your presentation. You may only include a brief statement about the character on the slide and state the details in your presentation. Include details about the protagonist, antagonist, and any other character you feel is worth mentioning (In other words, include other characters who are significant to the text or that you have a personal interest in).

6 Primary Conflicts (Use one or two slides.) Identify the main or central conflict. The main conflict is directly related to the introduction, climax, protagonist, and resolution of the text. This oftentimes is an internal conflict. You may choose to include additional minor conflicts that interested you.

7 Themes and Motif (Use one or two slides.) Identify and explain at least one theme and one motif within the text. Motif and theme are linked in a literary work but there is a difference between them. In a literary piece, a motif is a recurrent image, idea or a symbol that develops or explains a theme while a theme is a central message or insight into life revealed through a literary text.

8 Literary Criticisms (Review one per slide) Include bibliographic information in MLA format. What is this writer s central claim? What kind of evidence does the writer employ to support that claim? (Are there quotations from literary texts? From other critics? From theorists?) Does the writer acknowledge counter-arguments? Are the examples well chosen? Helpful Sites for Reading Literary Criticisms ing_literature_106_(maloy).pdf

9 Your Personal Response (Use no more than three slides.) Explain the allegory from your personal perspective. Be sure to use specific examples from the text. Describe your overall thoughts about the book.