SPEAK PRESENTATION

• Dramatic reading of a passage• Explanation of your passage – what does it

mean? What does it reveal? What connections can you make?

• Visual Aid – representing significant ideas in the passage. Symbolic images, not just literal

I watch myself in the mirror across the room. Ugh. My hair is completely hidden under the comforter. I look for the shapes in my face. Could I put a face in my tree, like a dryad from Greek mythology? Two muddy-circle eyes

under black-dash eyebrows, piggy nose nostrils, and chewed-up horror of a mouth. Definitely not a dryad

face. I can’t stop biting my lips. It looks like my mouth belongs to someone else, someone I don’t even know.

I get out of bed and take down the mirror. I put it in the back of my closet, facing the wall.

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Choose a passage to read

Create a visual for your presentation

Benefits• Audience looks at this instead of you• Audience can think about the meaning while

you are reading to them• If you forget what you want to say about the

quote, you can talk about why you chose the pictures or the quotes

“I put it in the back of my closet”

LOW SELF ESTEEM“completely hidden

under the comforter”

“Definitely not a dryad face”

VISUAL REPRESENTATIONA basic example 4/6

• At least 2 images• 2 literal: mirror/lips• 1 symbolic: person “hiding” under a hoody

and covering face with hands• 3 quotes• 1 big idea• X extra words

LOW SELF ESTEEM

“someone I don’t even know.”

“a dryad from Greek mythology”

“I put it in the back of my closet”

DEPRESSION

BEAUTY

“completely hidden”

“Definitely not a dryad face”

Evaluation = 6/6Literal• Mirror• Lips• Dryad

Symbolic

• Not recognizing herself: Question mark; shadow figure

• Desire to hide under the blankets: Hooded figure not showing face

TEXT:• 4 short

quotes• Additional

key words to unify

LAYOUT• Coloured text

to show connections• Line shows

contrast• X symbolizes

what she doesn’t have