Presentations
On this page, you can find presentations that other teaching students have created in preparation of leading class. From these, you can get information about various texts and methodologies as well as inspiration for how to design presentations for your own students.
Textual Analysis
Presentation: The Hate U Give: A Form of Activism
Creator: Monica Rodriguez
Created: Fall 2022
Text: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Focus: Angie Thomas, activism, voice, Black Lives Matter
Presentation: American Tail: Cultural and Historical Contextualization
Creator: Olivia Trotter
Created: Fall 2022
Text: American Tail
Focus: antrhopomorphization, immigration
Presentation: Gene Luen Yang: Author Study
Creator: Rachael Depasquale
Created: Fall 2022
Text: Boxers & Saints by Gene Luen Yang
Focus: Gene Luen Yang, author's purpose, American-Born Chinese
Presentation: Queer Latinx Futurity: How Disney's The Owl House Amplifies the Queer Latinx Voice
Creator: Renata Perez
Created: Spring 2022
Text: The Owl House
Focus: Latinx identity, queerness, representation, immigration, family, Disney, animation
Presentation: Lore Olympus and Adaptations of Greek Myths
Creator: Bianca Beronio
Created: Spring 2023
Text: Lore Olympus by Rachel Smythe, Hercules (1995), Gods' School
Focus: Gender, adaptation, age change, dealing with difficult topics
Presentation: Bridge to Terabithia: Book, Television, Film
Creator: Rachael Depasquale
Created: Spring 2023
Text: Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia (1985), Bridge to Terabithia (2007)
Focus: Adaptation, theme, death
Presentation: New Adventures of Peter & Wendy: Vlog Adaptations
Creator: Kristina Johnson
Created: Spring 2023
Text: New Adventures of Peter & Wendy, Peter and Wendy by J. M. Barrie
Focus: Adaptation, new media, vlog
Presentation: Romeo and Juliet Contextualization Project
Creator: Caren Kline
Created: Spring 2023
Text: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet" by Dire Straights, and Romeo and/or Juliet by Ryan North
Focus: Adaptation, change of age, gender
Presentation: Adult Humor in Picture Books
Creator: Ashley Server
Created: Spring 2023
Text: All My Friends Are Dead by Avery Monsen and Jory John, All My Friends Are Still Dead by Avery Monsen and Jory John, K is for Knifeball: An Alphabet of Terrible Advice by Avery Monsen and Jory John, The Very Hungover Catepillar: A Parody by Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees, You Have to F**king Eat by Adam Mansbauch and Owen Brozman, If You Give a Mouse an IPhone by Ann Droyd
Focus: Adaptation, change of age, humor
Presentation: Fan Fiction, Women, OC's, and Mary Sues
Creator: Olivia Trotter
Created: Spring 2023
Text: Marvel Cinematic Universe fan fiction
Focus: Fan fiction, adaptation, gender
Presentation: Alice in Wonderland
Creator: Nancy Hodson
Created: Fall 2023
Text: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Focus: Author influences and context
Presentation: "Beauty and the Beast" Across the North Sea
Creator: Emily Littlejohn
Created: Fall 2023
Text: "Beauty and the Beast" and "East of the Sun, West of the Moon" tales; specifically Walter Crane's "Beauty and the Beast" illustrations versus Kay Nielsen's "East of the Sun, West of the Moon" illustrations
Focus: Nineteenth-century illustration practices; differences/similarities between "Beauty and the Beast" and "East of the Sun, West of the Moon"
Presentation: Characters in History: Experiencing History through Fiction
Creator: Rachael DePasquale
Created: Fall 2023
Text: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor, Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse, and Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
Focus: How historical fiction teaches children about distinct lived experiences, even when written about the same time period (the Great Depression)
Presentation: Coming Out of the Pages: A Contextualization Presentation over Alex Gino's Melissa
Creator: Emily Illingworth
Created: Fall 2023
Text: Melissa, Rick, and You Don't Know Everything, Jilly P by Alex Gino
Focus: Representations of queerness and fatness for young audiences
Presentation: Casey McQuiston: In Queer Context
Creator: Melissa Haynes
Created: Spring 2024
Text: Red, White, & Royal Blue, One Last Stop, I Kissed Shara Wheeler
Focus: Putting McQuiston's queer representations in context with queer representation from the 1970s to today
Presentation: The Marrow Thieves and Ecolit
Creator: Breeanna Hicks
Created: Spring 2024
Text: The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
Focus: Placing Marrow Thieves in the longer context of ecoliterature and ecocriticism
Presentation: Adaptation: American Born Chinese and Monkey King
Creator: Anonymous
Created: Spring 2024
Text: American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang, American Born Chinese (2023), Monkey King (2023)
Focus: Comparing various adaptations of the Monkey King legend
Presentation: Young Adult vs. Adult
Creator: Preslee Beumer
Created: Spring 2024
Text: Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
Focus: Articulating the differences between young and adult to better understand the audience of Twilight
Presentation: Alternate History
Creator: Breanna Hicks
Created: Fall 2024
Text: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (film)
Focus: Tracing the history of alternate history as a subgenre from its inception to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Presentation: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Adaptation and History
Creator: Anonymous
Created: Fall 2024
Text: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (film)
Focus: Compares Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice to Seth Graeme-Smith's Pride and Prejudice and Zombies novel to the film adaptation thereof to discuss the afterlives of Austen's text
Presentation: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States of American: For Young People
Creator: Emily Illingworth
Created: Fall 2024
Text: An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States of American: For Young People by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Focus: Uses theory from cultural rhetorics to explain how groundbreaking An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States of American: For Young People is
Presentation: Inspiration Barbie
Creator: Micaela Crowhurst
Created: Fall 2024
Text: Barbie (film)
Focus: Traces Greta Gerwig's directing career to demonstrate how some of the seemingly more feminist elements of Barbie are repeats from her earlier films
Methodologies
Presentation: Show Me a Sign
Creator: Robin Mote
Created: Fall 2022
Focus: Show Me a Sign by Ann Clare Lezotte; how to start a unit on a specific text
Presentation: September 11th Unit
Creator: Tammea Rogers
Created: Fall 2022
Focus: 9/11 picture books, history, tough topics
Presentation: A Guide to Performance Activities
Creator: Yesenia Ortiz
Created: Spring 2022
Focus: Getting students engaged in performance activities, especially those nervous about speaking in front of class
Presentation: Monster
Creator: Emily Littlejohn
Created: Fall 2024
Text: Monster by Walter Dean Myers
Focus: Presents cultural and historical context around the US justice system and how that should affect our research and teaching