Ah! We have hit the presentations! That is fine! I am excited! Wait a minute. Sorry. Too many exclamation points there. I need to conserve them or else they tend to lose their power. I am excited. There that's better.
You and your three self-selected peers have a huge responsibility upon you. You will be sharing valuable information to your classmates on the book Animal Farm. You will be looking into the novel from an angle and a depth that your peers have not. They will be relying on you to enlighten them on the topics of peer pressure, education, defamation, scapegoats, the atomic bomb, names, propaganda, or fairy tales. What will you have to offer? What will you bring to the table? What are you doing tonight so that you can be a valid contributor to your group tomorrow? It's highly probable that some of you will be presenting tomorrow. Please blow us away.
A note on being blown away. Something explosive blows things away. Something passionate blows things away. Something engaging, informed, insightful blows things away. I want you to be explosive, passionate, engaging, informed, and insightful. You don't need props. You don't need a Prezi. You don't need audio-visual aides. You need your knowledge and your personality. Come up to me tomorrow in class and tell me that you are going to blow the class away with your knowledge and personality and I'll sign your Archer card.
Ripped From The Headlines is due tomorrow. What is your Animal Farm allegory? Make sure you offer an opening line a closing line, a well developed body paragraph, and your works cited page. You know what? Things that are ripped from the headlines tend to be explosive.
Can't top that, so I'll stop here.
See you soon! (I had one left.)
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