Tweaking our presentation (Term 2 Week 3 - 5 April 2010)
Ran through our presentation for the first time. Our mentor felt that our presentation skills were satisfactory. However, at the end of it, we still had to ask…

What is still lacking from our presentation?

After a discussion with our mentor, we realized that we needed to show more substance; evidence of the research that we had done. This led to the creation of a slide on our initial findings after analyzing various works of children’s literature which had a heavy use of symbolism.

Furthermore, we saw the need to show how we were going to go about the project, how we analysed texts and formed conclusions. Therefore, we added a slide containing one of the poems we found in one of Shel Silverstein’s anthologies so kindly lent to us by our mentor. But why did we choose that specific poem, namely, Arrows? We believed that that specific poem was a clear example of how a simple text --- rather whimsical and simplistic on a surface level had a deeper meaning behind it. We did an analysis of the text and included it in a following slide. This would give a clearer picture into our thought processes.