Biography PowerPoint Presentation

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Biography PowerPoint Presentation
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Guidelines

• Presentation must be 3-5 minutes
• You can use 6 notecards for your presentation
• You must have 20 or fewer words per notecard
• Questions to answer
• Why did you select this person?
• Explain 5 life changing events in this persons
  life.
• Do you consider this person a role model? Why?
• Did you find this person to be interesting? Why?

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PowerPoint

• You need at least 8 slides (not counting your
  title slide)
• You must have 20 or fewer words per slide. The
  words on your slides should be key words. You
  want your audience to listen to you, not read
  your PowerPoint.
• Your slides should be used more as a visual.
  Pictures should be relevant to what you are
  talking about in your presentation.

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PowerPoint

• You may have to think outside the box. Some
  people will have access to more pictures than
  others. What other visuals could you use?
• Life Lesson Your last slide must be a Life
  Lesson you could learn from your person. Is
  there a quality this person possesses you could
  learn from? Is there a specific experience in
  this persons life you could learn from?

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Presentation Guidelines

• Attention Getter create an introduction in a
  creative way to gain attention of audience.
  (interesting fact, statistic, quote, question,
  etc)
• Speak in good volume, showing enthusiasm,
  interest, and fluctuation in your voice.
• Make good eye contact with your audience. Do NOT
  read off your PowerPoint! Always face your
  audience.

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Presentation

• Poise you should practice and have a good
  presence. Be confident in yourself!
• Provide information you think will be interesting
  to your audience. You want to thoroughly teach
  your audience about your person.
• Lasting Impression Leave your audience thinking
  about your topic. This could be an interesting
  fact, statistic, quote, question, etc. (this
  should happen after your Life Lesson slide)
  Make the final slide your works cited page. Cite
  5 sources you used one of the 5 is your book.

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Presentation

• Extra Credit You can dress-up as the person you
  are presenting for extra credit. Be creative!
• Have fun with the presentation!