we will be doing a project-based slideshow instead of writing an essay. You will be analyzing Adrienne Rich. You will need to analyze and examine how her/his literary voice and literature explores, questions, confronts, challenges, and exposes gender and/or sexual norms within the U.S. during the 20th Century. You will put the project together using PowerPoint, GoogleSlides, Canvas Studio or any other platform that you feel comfortable creating a slideshow in.
Focus: You must focus your project on helping the reader understand who the writer is based on the prompt and why their literary voice is important and then analyze at least one piece of literature we have read in class, connecting it to the prompt.
Slides for the writer: Include information about the writer that helps your viewer understand who the writer is and why their voice is important in confronting the status quo of gender and sexual identities in the U.S.
Slides for literature analysis: Include textual evidence from the poems/prose/essay of the writer: use a minimum of 4 quotes in your literary analysis per source. Focus on the meaning of the literature you have chosen and how it engages challenging the status quo of gender/sexual realities in the 20th Century.
How many slides? You need a minimum of 8 slides that include written information and visual representations for what you are discussing. Make sure you create a balance between discussing who the author is and analyzing their literature. Error on having at least 3 slides that provide literary analysis.
Feel free to be creative: Putting together a slideshow should hopefully be more fun than writing a traditional essay.
Narration: An audio explanation of the project is required. This narration will walk your audience through your presentation and prove answering the prompt. You may narrate more information than just what your slides say. This needs to be 5-7 minutes long. You can write the transcript only and I can do this part.
Works Cited: Include a Works Cited of where you gather your information at the end of the slide show, and include in-text citations throughout the presentation.
