Create an Effective 8-Slide Book Presentation: Tips and Guidelines

Slide 1: Cover and Title Slide

The 8 Slides Your presentation will have at least 8 total slides. Be sure to follow the instructions for each slide, and view this template to help you understand the set-up (Links to an external site.). You can have more than 8 total slides, though, if you decide that the contents of any of the below won’t fit on just one slide. For instance, you might cover the “Slide 3” requirements in two slides.

Slide 1: Cover and title slide Include your name, the author’s name, the cover of the book.

Slide 2: Knowledge (Choose one option)

Option 1: Describe the meaning of the book’s title (100 words)

Option 2: Describe the setting (time, place, etc) and its importance (100 words)

Option 3: Create a plot diagram for your book, marking the important events (at least 12 events) and identifying conflict and climax

Slide 3: Understanding (Choose one option)

Option 1: Write a summary in 200 words. Provide the main events, characters, and theme. Focus on what’s important.

Option 2: Explain the main conflict in about 200 words. Give examples of how the conflict shows up in the story.

Option 3: Include your 8-10 favorite quotes or passages and explain each one and why it’s important or meaningful.

Slide 4: Creative Application Create something that shows your understanding of the book. This might mean a movie poster, an alternate book cover, a video re-enactment, writing an alternate ending, doing a storyboard or comic book version of a key scene, write a poem or song that expresses the main character’s feelings… be creative.

Slide 5: Analysis (Choose one option)

Option 1: Analyze the main character, and how they exemplify the traits of one of the character types we have studied (consulting detective, PI, amateuer detective, police detective, etc.) Include any changes the character goes through. 200+ words

Option 2: Choose another book or movie that is similar to this one and explain what they have in common. Use examples of character, theme, plot, tone, etc. 200+ words.

Slide 6: Synthesis (Choose one option)

Option 1: Write a 20-question test over your novel, and provide the answers.

Option 2: Choose a controversial or social issue from the book and write a synthesis of how the book discusses the topic and what stance the book makes. For instance, if there is a company in the book that’s polluting the local river, does the book take the company’s side or not? How is this shown?

Slide 2: Knowledge (Choose one option)

Slide 7: Evaluation Find and link to 2 professional, published reviews of the book (not blog posts). In 300-500 words, write your own review of the book. Book reviews include some plot and character information, whether you’d recommend the book or not, what readers would enjoy, what you wish had been done differently or improved, and what you felt the key strength and weakness are.

Slide 8: Credits Include an MLA-style citation for: The novel The book reviews Any images, music, or videos Any media or sources linked or used Novel LIST Choose one of these books to read for your Author Project and Novel Project (both projects will be over this book!). You’ll need to buy, rent, borrow, download, or access this book yourself.

Some of these are freely available online, and many can be checked out from the library (as physical books or ebooks). Yes – audio books count! You may find it harder to search and quote them, though. Yes – You may choose a book you’ve already read, but you will need to read it again this semester. Projects require quotes, details, and specifics. Yes – you can get the book anywhere that sells, rents, or loans out books. Braithwaite, Oyinkan: My Sister, The Serial Killer My Sister, The Serial Killer (2018): Oyinkan Braithwaite offers up a tale of Nigerian sisters Ayoola, a beautiful and sociopathic serial killer who destroys boyfriends, aware that all they ever want her for is her appearance, and Korede, a nurse whose average looks leave her continually passed up in preference for Ayoola. Still, taciturn and devoted Korede works hard to cover up her charming sister’s crimes. What will happen when they both fall for the same guy?

Capote, Truman: In Cold Blood In Cold Blood (1965): The most famous true crime novel of all time and one of the first non-fiction novels ever written; In Cold Blood is the bestseller that haunted its author long after he finished writing it. On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, he generates both mesmerizing suspense and astonishing empathy.

Carr, Caleb: The Alienist The Alienist (1994): This modern classic continues to be a touchstone of historical suspense fiction for readers everywhere. The year is 1896. The city is New York. Newspaper reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned by his friend Dr. Laszlo Kreizler—a psychologist, or “alienist”—to view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy abandoned on the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge. From there the two embark on a revolutionary effort in criminology: creating a psychological profile of the perpetrator based on the details of his crimes. Their dangerous quest takes them into the tortured past and twisted mind of a murderer who will kill again before their hunt is over.