Kozol Presentation

         Your group task is to find a way to "represent"your assigned chapter in Kozol’s Savage Inequalities to the class.  Partly, that means to find a way to make sure that your classmates get all the important ideas from the chapter.  ("Important ideas"includes tying your chapter to all the chapters in Spring.  Be sure to make the connections clearly by giving a page number from Spring for each connection.  You must have a minimum of one connection to each of Spring's chapters.   Please note that I am using the plural "chapters" here.  While each chapter tends to focus on one particular point, each chapter illuminates many of the points Spring has brought up.  Though you may decide to divide up Spring's chapters for your class presentation, I expect your individual papers to include connections to all of Spring's chapters.  Read carefully, think deeply.) Partly, it means you can present the material in any way you feel will get the points across -- posters, PowerPoint, skits, role playing, group activities, lecture, some combination thereof, whatever you think will work.  I expect all members of the group to be fully involved at every step in the process.

         You will be have 30 minutes for your presentation.  I expect you to use the entire time, but will dock you if you go over that time or are significantly (more than five minutes) under that time.

         As usual, you will need to write a brief -- 2 pages or more -- paper after your presentation.  In that paper, you will need to discuss who did what, how the members participated, what went right, what went wrong, and how you would change your presentation if you were to do it over.  In addition, you need to tell me in the paper what you thought were the important points in Kozol, and what connections you saw between your Kozol chapter and Spring's chapters.  Include all of Spring's chapters here.

         This paper will be due the class period after your presentation. Your grade on these papers will be a combination grade reflecting both the quality of the paper and the presentation.  I will grade these with an A through F scale.  The grade criteria are as follows: A = Excellent/Superb; B = Better than Average, goes beyond the requirements; C = Meets the requirements, but doesn't go beyond them; D = Doesn't meet the requirements, but shows some effort; F = shows little to no engagement in the assignment.