ORAL PROJECTS
FINAL - Modem Literature

20th Century Literary Movements—People and influences that captured the imaginations of literary talent in the century just past.

Requirements:
I. Oral Presentation
Purpose = teaching the class what you have learned about the people/influences you have researched.

Teaching strategies may include:
  • Skits/dramatizations
  • Oral interpretation
  • Costumes
  • Demonstrations
  • Tapes/readings/music
  • Panel discussions
  • Role playing
  • Illustrations
  • Class participation
  • etc., etc., etc.
II. Handout

Each student/group (of no more than 4) will produce a 1-page typed handout which contains a summary of information presented orally. This handout must be presented to the teacher for copying the day before your Oral Presentation (or you may make 30 copies on your own), and should be labeled with your name(s), title of project, period, due date, and subject.

III. Reference List (Works Cited)

Each student/group will provide the teacher with a bibliography of the sources used, print or internet. The list should follow MLA format. You may use the OSLIS Secondary Citation Maker tool from the Hamilton Library Media Center website to make the MLA citations.

Use the Hamilton Library Electronic Card Catalog to find books on your topic using keywords, subjects, or names. Use the index in the books to locate specific information.

The LAUSD Digital Library can only be used at school, however, you can email information to yourself or save it on a floppy to study later. Use Thompson Gale Biography Resource Center and Student Resource Center Gold, or Literature Resource Center (keyword).

POSSIBLE TOPICS
The Beat Generation
Kerouac, Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti
The Lost Generation
Gertrude Stein, Hemingway, Fitzgerald
World War I Soldier Poets
Owens, Graves, Brooks
The Harlem Renaissance
McKay, Hurston, Hughes, Cullen
World War II Novels
Berlin Stories, I Am a Camera
Novel> Play> Musical
Caberet
"Hard-boiled" Detective              Fiction
Spillane, Chandler, Hammett
Existential Writers
Camus, Sartre
Holocaust Works (Fiction/Non-Fiction)
"Playing for Time", Anne Frank
Literature Goes Hollywood
Faulkner, Odets, Fitzgerald
Development of Magical Realism
Marquez, Fuentes, Paz, Bourges
Vietnam Works
O'Brien
Feminist Works
Greer, Steinem, Friedan