The Kite Runner PowerPoint Presentations
For this project, we are going to use GoogleDocs. You must share this
with me (Benton. Use the apps address). I promise this will make things go
much faster!
To Begin:
1. OSH Homepage
4. Click on “Presentation”
2. Sign in to Osseo Apps
5. Choose a theme
3. Click on “Create”
6. Start working!
Slide 1
Slides in your presentation:
You should have the following information: Title of the book,
your name, and hour.
The Kite Runner PowerPoint Presentations
For this project, we are going to use GoogleDocs. You must share this
with me (Benton. Use the apps address). I promise this will make things go
much faster!
To Begin:
1. OSH Homepage
4. Click on “Presentation”
2. Sign in to Osseo Apps
5. Choose a theme
3. Click on “Create”
6. Start working!
Slide 1
Slides in your presentation:
You should have the following information: Title of the book,
your name, and hour.
To create a second slide, go to slide and choose the appropriate selection for
your presentation.
To create a second slide, go to slide and choose the appropriate selection for
your presentation.
Slide 2
Thesis statement for the book and images (picture, song,
video, etc.) which represent your theme. In the notes section,
write a paragraph explaining how your theme fits the book.
Use quotes and event to help you explain how the story fits
your theme. Also, incorporate how the visuals fit the theme as
well. See my example on the wiki.
www.msbenton.pbworks.com or the assign drive.
Slide 3
Name the character you decided to focus on for this project.
Include a visual representation for this character (picture, song,
video, etc.). In the notes section, write a paragraph explaining
how your character changed. Use quotes and event to help
you illustrate and explain how your character changed. Also,
incorporate how the visuals fit the changes as well.
Slide 4
Identify one turning point in the story. Include a visual
representation for this character (picture, song, video, etc.).
Slide 5
Identify one symbol in the story. DO NOT USE A KITE!
Include a visual representation for this symbol (picture, song,
video, color, etc.). In the notes section, write a paragraph
explaining how this symbol fits the book. Use quotes and
events to help you explain the symbol.
Slide 6
Three visual representations of this character’s transformation
(possibly
from childhood to adulthood. In the notes section, write a short
7, 8)
explanation of how each visual represents this character’s
transformation throughout the book. You may use quotes or
specific events to help explain how the visual represents this
character’s transformation.
To add a video or picture:
1. Go to Insert.
2. Click on Video or Image.
3. You will need to find your picture on the Internet, videos on YouTube.
4. Copy the website address and paste it into the box which requests it.
Slide 2
When finished, you will print out a copy of your presentation with the notes.
Follow these instructions:
1. File
2. Print Preview
3. 1 slide with notes
*Save to your drive and print the presentation out to turn in Friday, April 25
by 2:00 or it will be late! The printed copy should have your slides and the
notes as well. Please ask for help if you need it! If you have trouble, ASK! I
expect you to use your time wisely in the lab. Lab time is a privilege, not a
right. If you are not using the time constructively, I reserve the right to take
the class time away and make the project entirely homework
When finished, you will print out a copy of your presentation with the notes.
Follow these instructions:
1. File
2. Print Preview
3. 1 slide with notes
*Save to your drive and print the presentation out to turn in Friday, April 25
by 2:00 or it will be late! The printed copy should have your slides and the
notes as well. Please ask for help if you need it! If you have trouble, ASK! I
expect you to use your time wisely in the lab. Lab time is a privilege, not a
right. If you are not using the time constructively, I reserve the right to take
the class time away and make the project entirely homework
Thesis statement for the book and images (picture, song,
video, etc.) which represent your theme. In the notes section,
write a paragraph explaining how your theme fits the book.
Use quotes and event to help you explain how the story fits
your theme. Also, incorporate how the visuals fit the theme as
well. See my example on the wiki.
www.msbenton.pbworks.com or the assign drive.
Slide 3
Name the character you decided to focus on for this project.
Include a visual representation for this character (picture, song,
video, etc.). In the notes section, write a paragraph explaining
how your character changed. Use quotes and event to help
you illustrate and explain how your character changed. Also,
incorporate how the visuals fit the changes as well.
Slide 4
Identify one turning point in the story. Include a visual
representation for this character (picture, song, video, etc.).
Slide 5
Identify one symbol in the story. DO NOT USE A KITE!
Include a visual representation for this symbol (picture, song,
video, color, etc.). In the notes section, write a paragraph
explaining how this symbol fits the book. Use quotes and
events to help you explain the symbol.
Slide 6
Three visual representations of this character’s transformation
(possibly
from childhood to adulthood. In the notes section, write a short
7, 8)
explanation of how each visual represents this character’s
transformation throughout the book. You may use quotes or
specific events to help explain how the visual represents this
character’s transformation.
To add a video or picture:
1. Go to Insert.
2. Click on Video or Image.
3. You will need to find your picture on the Internet, videos on YouTube.
4. Copy the website address and paste it into the box which requests it.
Theme: Jay Gatsby’s life and death in The Great Gatsby
illustrates that hopes and dreams can motivate and challenge a
person just as well as they can destroy a person. Jay Gatsby is a
dreamer and driven to have a better life. This drive for a better life
can be seen in Gatsby as a kid. On page 181, Mr. Gatz shows Nick a
page from Gatsby’s childhood book, Hopalong Cassidy shown above.
In the book, Gatsby had created a schedule and resolves for himself:
“No more smokeing or chewing[;]read one improving book or
magazine a week[;]save $5.00 [crossed out] $3.00 per week[;] be
better to parents”(181-2). As a child, Gatsby set goals to improve
himself in order to somehow create a better future. This dream
allows him to take advantages that come along, like his friendship
with Dan Cody. Gatsby as a dreamer is symbolized by the song
performed by Jackie Evancho “When You Wish Upon a Star.” In one
scene in the 2013 movie, The Great Gatsby, Gatsby even points to
the sky as he explains he and Daisy’s past. In fact, before the events
in the book and during the book, Daisy is Gatsby’s dream girlbeautiful and wealthy, and everything he has done is to get her
attention and win her over. Gatsby threw lavish parties in hopes that
these parties would attract Daisy’s attention and the two of them
would connect again after years apart. Additionally, Gatsby goes out
of his way to arrange a tea party at Nick’s where he, Gatsby, just
“happens” to show up. His dream of building a life with Daisy has
motivated him to spend time and money creating situations in which
Daisy returns to him, turning her back on Tom and the life they have
built together over the last five years. However, these hopes and
dreams also destroy Gatsby. Blinded by his dream of having Daisy,
he ignores obvious signs that this is not an easy decision for Daisy.
When Gatsby meets Tom and Daisy’s child for the first time Nick
comments, “Afterward he kept looking at the child with surprise. I
don’t think he had ever really believed in its existence before” (123).
Gatsby never seriously considered that Daisy had moved on; she had
other ties to Tom that went beyond their relationship. Pammy (Tom
and Daisy’s daughter) tied Tom and Daisy together, and she didn’t
figure into Gatsby’s vision of their future together-at least not until
that point. Additionally, Jay’s refusal to see their connection, allows
him to hang onto the hope that there is a future for he and Daisy
when the reality is the opposite, especially after the argument in the
hotel and Myrtle’s death. His future with Daisy is represented by the
wilting daisy picture. After the argument and death of Myrtle, Daisy
drifts farther from Gatsby. In his last conversation with Nick, Gatsby
says, “’I suppose Daisy’ll call too.’ He looked at me anxiously as if he
hoped I’d corroborate this” (161). Nick knows this is not going to
happen, but can’t bring himself to tell Gatsby. It is this relationship
and hope for the future which leads to Gatsby’s death. Tom states,
“That fellow had it coming to him” (187). Tom’s jealously of Gatsby
and Daisy’s relationship destroyed Gatsby. Tom sent Wilson to
Gatsby’s home on purpose. Gatsby’s hopes and dreams for a life
with Daisy motivated and challenged him to go from simple
beginnings to extreme wealth, but those hopes and dreams
betrayed him and lead to his demise as well.
Theme: Jay Gatsby’s life and death in The Great Gatsby
illustrates that hopes and dreams can motivate and challenge a
person just as well as they can destroy a person. Jay Gatsby is a
dreamer and driven to have a better life. This drive for a better life
can be seen in Gatsby as a kid. On page 181, Mr. Gatz shows Nick a
page from Gatsby’s childhood book, Hopalong Cassidy shown above.
In the book, Gatsby had created a schedule and resolves for himself:
“No more smokeing or chewing[;]read one improving book or
magazine a week[;]save $5.00 [crossed out] $3.00 per week[;] be
better to parents”(181-2). As a child, Gatsby set goals to improve
himself in order to somehow create a better future. This dream
allows him to take advantages that come along, like his friendship
with Dan Cody. Gatsby as a dreamer is symbolized by the song
performed by Jackie Evancho “When You Wish Upon a Star.” In one
scene in the 2013 movie, The Great Gatsby, Gatsby even points to
the sky as he explains he and Daisy’s past. In fact, before the events
in the book and during the book, Daisy is Gatsby’s dream girlbeautiful and wealthy, and everything he has done is to get her
attention and win her over. Gatsby threw lavish parties in hopes that
these parties would attract Daisy’s attention and the two of them
would connect again after years apart. Additionally, Gatsby goes out
of his way to arrange a tea party at Nick’s where he, Gatsby, just
“happens” to show up. His dream of building a life with Daisy has
motivated him to spend time and money creating situations in which
Daisy returns to him, turning her back on Tom and the life they have
built together over the last five years. However, these hopes and
dreams also destroy Gatsby. Blinded by his dream of having Daisy,
he ignores obvious signs that this is not an easy decision for Daisy.
When Gatsby meets Tom and Daisy’s child for the first time Nick
comments, “Afterward he kept looking at the child with surprise. I
don’t think he had ever really believed in its existence before” (123).
Gatsby never seriously considered that Daisy had moved on; she had
other ties to Tom that went beyond their relationship. Pammy (Tom
and Daisy’s daughter) tied Tom and Daisy together, and she didn’t
figure into Gatsby’s vision of their future together-at least not until
that point. Additionally, Jay’s refusal to see their connection, allows
him to hang onto the hope that there is a future for he and Daisy
when the reality is the opposite, especially after the argument in the
hotel and Myrtle’s death. His future with Daisy is represented by the
wilting daisy picture. After the argument and death of Myrtle, Daisy
drifts farther from Gatsby. In his last conversation with Nick, Gatsby
says, “’I suppose Daisy’ll call too.’ He looked at me anxiously as if he
hoped I’d corroborate this” (161). Nick knows this is not going to
happen, but can’t bring himself to tell Gatsby. It is this relationship
and hope for the future which leads to Gatsby’s death. Tom states,
“That fellow had it coming to him” (187). Tom’s jealously of Gatsby
and Daisy’s relationship destroyed Gatsby. Tom sent Wilson to
Gatsby’s home on purpose. Gatsby’s hopes and dreams for a life
with Daisy motivated and challenged him to go from simple
beginnings to extreme wealth, but those hopes and dreams
betrayed him and lead to his demise as well.