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Great Presentations

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Recently my AP Literature class had presentations where the students had to teach about certain chapter of the book. Basically everyone had to endure five presentations each thirty minutes long about stuff that people already were supposed to know. So by the time my presentation came up everyone had seen every possible way to be creative with information that everyone already memorized through our annotations of the book. Great Idea, Small kinks                 In our own presentation my associate and I tried to challenge the class, and force them to think, DRIIIIIIINK!!!!!!!! Totally applies to my situation   We planned to achieve this by asking questions that you could answer if you read the chapter, instead of just listening to the chapter summary, this made the audience work beyond just parroting the last few words we said. The challenge was well received as it caused our five person audience to pause and actually think hard about the chapters we were expla