1. World Lit: Your Digital “Sales Pitch”
Your digital presentation will be an effort to persuade your audience about some issue affecting your chosen country or culture.
You may choose to simply persuade your audience to visit your country, BUT try to think more deeply about the problems this culture faces, and what your audience can do to solve them.

2. For example… Child labor Drug/Gang related issues
Environmental concerns
Poverty
Access to education
Your focus: What can be done to help?

3. Useful Databases from MackinVia
Opposing Viewpoints
Britannica ImageQuest
Student Resources in Context

4. Programs to Use Choose from the following: Glogster Prezi Emaze
MovieMaker
Wideo
Google Docs Presentation
PowerPoint

5. Presentations Friday Bring Cultural Artifact Friday: Art Music Food
Clothing
Literature (a poem, etc.)

6. Your Presentation Slide 1: Title Slide Title MLA Format Heading:
Your Name
World Literature -2nd Block
Ms. Geller
9 September 2014
Picture from Brittanica ImageQuest

7. Your Presentation Slide 2: Facts about your country Location Climate
Population
Geography
Government

8. Your Presentation
Slide 3: Culture (include 3 or more of the following)
Art
Music
Literature
Food
Clothing
Religion
Holidays
Festivals
Traditions
Customs

9. Your Presentation Slide 4: The Problem or Issue
Give background on the problem or issue
If your persuasive purpose is just to get people to visit there, talk about the country’s economic struggles and how tourism can help support the economy
A barrier to tourism could be that people have misconceptions about the country; address these here.

10. Your Presentation Donate $ (to what organizations?)
Slide 5: What your audience can do to help
Donate $ (to what organizations?)
Support the economy by visiting
Raise awareness
Volunteer (Peace Corps, etc.)

11. Slide 6: Works Cited
Same as your brochure, except add citations for any additional sources used. Citing from Britannica ImageQuest: Puerto Rico. Photograph. Encyclopædia Britannica ImageQuest. Web. 8 Sep Citing from Opposing Viewpoints: McNeill, David. "Japan Does Not Accept Immigrants." Japan. Ed. Karen Miller. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, Opposing Viewpoints. Rpt. from "Still Foreign after All These Years." Chronicle of Higher Education 16 Feb. 2007: A47. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 8 Sept