Blog #30: Final Reflection

Looking at the concrete aspect of my project, I utilized various pictures throughout my PowerPoint presentation. I thought this was an important aspect to include because it allowed the audience to be more engaged in my presentation. I also did this because I included various images of Big Brother or eyes because this was a very major aspect of 1984 with posters of Big Brother everywhere. I believe my performance in my presentation was very engaging, especially with my inclusion of the cupcakes with little eyes, which reinforces the essence of 1984 as Big Brother watches everything. This was a major aspect of my novel, and I believe that in my extra credit explanation I did a very nice job relating the cupcakes back to the novel with various quotes to back it up. I believe the design of my PowerPoint was also effective as I implemented many pictures and dark colors to enforce the darkness of the dystopian society in the novel. Something else I believed I did well in this project was the research paper. I was able to utilize almost all of the literary criticisms that I found and implement them into my research paper. I also believe I had a strong introduction and thesis that was creative and engaging. Something I could've done better would definitely be using more eye contact in the presentation because I tended to read off the screen. If doing this project again, I would’ve spent more time revising my poetry essay, as this was my lowest scored aspect of the presentation. I really liked that we had to do reflections for others as well as ourselves because l was able to further analyze other students work to see how they went about analyzing their author’s writing as well as the stylistic choices they included. I also believe this project was good preparation for the AP Literature exam because the book and author we chose to research could definitely come in handy for an open question prompt, as I feel as though I would be able to compose a well written essay over 1984 with knowledge of George Orwell’s writing style and its effect on the work as a whole.