Due Monday, December 2 through Friday, December 6.  A presentation schedule will be determined in class on November 18.  Try to show up before the start of class for your presentation day, and remember that you need to be in class as good, attentive audience members for your classmates' presentations.

These are 12-minute presentations.  Allow about 8 minutes for talking, and 4 for Q&A. 

You may use powerpoint, etc, if you like for your presentation, although this is not required or even particularly encouraged. You may embed a clip if you are talking about a movie, but this should be no more than 2 minutes--you wouldn't want to take away from your presentation time by filling it up with clips--and it should be necessary to your argument. Our classroom technology is very unreliable and we will be on a tight schedule, so you should absolutely be ready to present without technology.

Your Assignment:

• Choose a contemporary monster story, in any form.  You can choose to analyze a movie, a novel, a game, a TV show, an advertisement campaign, a graphic novel, ...  anything that tells the story of a monster.
• Apply the strategies and themes we have used in this class to analyze your chosen monster.  You may want to compare your chosen story directly with one of the texts we have used, although you don't have to.  We have built up a rich vocabulary for talking about monsters in the course of this semester.  Use this to analyze your monster story and how it fits into contemporary culture.
• Present your findings to the class.  As with a paper, focus your presentation around a thesis.  Your presentation will present your argument, and the evidence to support your argument.  If you need help crafting a thesis, talk to me.

If you get stuck, or if you just want to bounce ideas around, feel free to meet with me or e-mail me ahead of time.