World Lit Your Digital Sales Pitch Your digital

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.

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

Useful Databases from Mackin. Via Opposing Viewpoints Britannica Image. Quest Student Resources in Context

Programs to Use Choose from the following: Glogster Prezi Emaze Movie. Maker Wideo Google Docs Presentation Power. Point

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Slide 6: Works Cited Same as your brochure, except add citations for any additional sources used. Citing from Britannica Image. Quest: Puerto Rico. Photograph. Encyclopædia Britannica Image. Quest. Web. 2014. 8 Sep Citing from Opposing Viewpoints: Mc. Neill, David. "Japan Does Not Accept Immigrants. " Japan. Ed. Karen Miller. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2009. Opposing Viewpoints. Rpt. from "Still Foreign after All These Years. " Chronicle of Higher Education 16 Feb. 2007: A 47. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 8 Sept. 2014.