Genre PowerPoint Presentation Basics for NONFICTION What follows are the basics for your PowerPoint presentation. Each genre/book presentation must include these basics. You are invited and encouraged to be very creative with your presentations. You may add more thoughts about the book based on your own interests and connections. You may carefully choose and include animations, sounds, recordings, color, design, and graphics to enhance your presentation.

Genre PowerPoint Presentation Basics for NONFICTION Include this information at the start: Genre Title Author Number of pages Your full name Date

Create 5 to 8 slides that include the following: Graphic Organizer Choose and create a graphic organizer that shows 3-5 main ideas or events in this book. Include 3-5 supporting details from the book for each larger idea. Pictures Include pictures in your organizer that represent information about your topic.

Graphic Organizers

3. Insights and Connections Write three statements that describe any insight or connections that you made while you read this book.

4. Recommendation Write one, well-supported recommendation of this book. Note: Recommendations may be negative or positive, but must always be supported with several reasons why.

Genre: Non-Fiction Essays (contemporary, environmental) The World Without Us by Alan Weisman Mrs. Correll September 6, 2008 [275 pages]

What would the planet Earth be like if it suddenly was no longer occupied by people?

What would the planet Earth be like if it suddenly was no longer occupied by people?

What would the planet Earth be like if it suddenly was no longer occupied by people?

Insights In the end, no matter what people do to the planet Earth, it will survive. Some aspects of human culture will remain forever, such as plastic and nuclear waste. Some of the most spectacular sites on Earth are leftovers from ancient cultures that have just about been swallowed by nature.

Recommendation I would recommend this book to any thoughtful person who doesn’t mind working his or her way slowly through dense, often technical text. The new knowledge about the past, present and future Earth that I acquired from this book was worth the effort. It’s a book that I will keep so that I can go back and reread text as I make new connections to my world.