Project 3 Assignment

Raisin in the Sun and Clybourne Park

Project Description:

You will work in groups of 3 or 4 to explore this notion of home ownership in these two related plays. The presentation will tell the narrative of the two plays as well as discuss the concept of home ownership from World War II forward to our present day. Each group will contribute  to a whole class presentation, rather than creating a separate, unrelated set of slides. The project will require you to work in Google Presentations because of its ease in sharing. Coordination among group members and between groups will be essential for success on this assignment. To that end, you will select one of your group members to act as a coordinator, helping your group members to develop a coherent and cohesive presentation. Additionally, the coordinator will work with coordinators from other groups to make sure the entire presentation is unified. Because the coordinator has additional responsibilities, he or she will not be required to create slides, but will instead be evaluated based on the group’s work.

Draft Due:

March 14, 2015 @ 11:59 PM

Project Submission:

Submit the project to your CIKeys blog. Once you have your draft ready for review, leave a reply on the Project 3 page. Your reply must include a link to your project and a screenshot of the project.

Presentation Elements:

• The presentation should both inform the viewer about housing and gentrification since the end of WWII, as well as relate those concerns to scenes from Raisin in the Sun and Clybourne Park. The viewer needs to understand both the issues and the narrative of the two plays;
• With the assistance of the professor, the class will decide how to divide the different eras and the plays up for presentation;
• Students who are not serving as coordinators are responsible for creating slides. The number of slides each group will create will be left up to the group, but balance between the number of slides each group creates is important. Slides should follow guidelines from “10 Tips for Making Beautiful Slideshow Presentations” found on the Project 4 page;
• Coordinators will meet with the professor to report on progress and address issues that arise. As a consequence, coordinators will have additional organizational responsibilities that will be detailed as the class works through the activity. Coordinators are encouraged to assist group members in slide creation, even though they are not responsible for any slides;
• Images should dominate over text in the presentation. You are encouraged to insert video in the slideshow presentation. Video may be from available sources (make sure you create a citation) or may be created by you for this assignment. Bullet points are strongly discouraged;
• The presentation must include in-text citations on slides where appropriate and a bibliography section at the end with complete references;
• The presentation is entirely digital. You will not be making an oral presentation.

Draft Grading:

The draft is worth 10 points (1/10 of your final grade). Late assignments will receive no points; missing elements will cause a deduction in points for the individual and the group. An evaluation of your group will be required and will play an important role in the credit you earn for your draft. Don’t assume everyone in the group will receive the same draft grade

For related videos see: http://cliftonjustice.cikeys.com/english-340/activity-4/