This is a presentation of how to use PowerPoint to help learners create dynamic presentations to teach literary terms.
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1. Learning Literary Language
Ms. June L. Rose
Lehigh University
February 19, 2011
2. Howard Gardneron MI Theory
3. The Original 7 Intelligences
4. The Power of PPT
Learning is an active process. We learn by doing. Only knowledge
that is used sticks in your mind.
~Dale Carnegie
PowerPoint is a wide-spread, multi-media software that allows
learners to synthesize information, to engage their audience, and
to make a dynamic presentation of otherwise static information to
an audience of his or her peers.
5. Tools to use with PPT
A&Pby John Updike
Literary Terms
Character
Setting
Plot
Point of View
Symbolism
Theme
Style
Tone
Irony
9. Character
Three girls,in bathing suits:
Queenie
Plaid
Big Tall Goony Goon
Customer, witchy woman
Sammy, the checkout clerk
Stokes, another checkout clerk
Lengel, store manager
10. Setting: A Grocery Store
11. PlotShort Plot Movie: (5:23:92)
12. Point of View: First Person
First person from Sammys view of the world.
Im in the third checkout slot
Poor kids, I began to feel sorry for them
But it seems to me that once you begin a gesture its fatal not to
go through with it.
13. Symbolism: Girls & Bees
Sammy compares the three girls to bees.
She was the queen.
You never know for sure how girls minds work (do you really think
its a mind in there or just a little buzz like a bee in a glass
jar?
and buzzed to the other two
14. Symbolism: Customers & Sheep
He also compares the customers to unthinking sheep:
15. Theme
16. Style
Irony
Tone
Point of View
Informal Speech
Description
17. Tone
Colloquial language gives Sammy the mellow tone of a teenage boy
until the store manager embarrasses the girls. Here, the tone
switches to a narrator who resents the conservative, grown up
world, so he quits.
18. Irony: Failed Superhero
Sammy quits to defend the girls honor, but they never hear him, and
they dont know that he sacrificed himself for them.
Sammy hopes to feel triumphant about quitting, but doesnt.
19. References
http://www.infed.org/thinkers/gardner.htm
