Your presentation will be worth 75 points.  You should not read your paper to us, although you may want to include important points from it in your speech.
Content – Provide the most important aspects of your author’s writing life as you expect it may be relevant to classmates who could encounter your author on the AP exam.  Focus on their writing content, language and style.  You may need to provide details from his or her life to explain the content of his or her writings, but the emphasis should be on the writing.  Your presentation may be interactive (you give the class a task to complete).  The most important goal for you to achieve is the audience comes away with an understanding of your author’s purpose and style.
	Handout – Make a handout that will provide the key information about your author’s life and writing (content and style) to the class.  It should only be one page long (front and back), and visually attractive, but it should include most of the following items:  author’s name, author’s picture (you should cite the source), list of author’s (main?) works, typical genre, several of the most important details you want the class to remember about your author, lifespan of the author (period of writing?), and perhaps some memorable or illustrative (of style or content) quotes.  The copy may be jazzed up with computer graphics or relevant clip art.    I will make black and white copies for the entire AP English Language class if you provide me with a pristine copy 24 hours before your presentation.
Delivery – Are you well prepared?  Do you seem confident?  Do you avoid self-deprecating comments?  Are you comfortable answering questions from your classmates?  Are you able to stay within a 10-15 minute timeline?  Posture?  Physical balance?  Vocabulary?  Volume?  Eye contact?  Attire?  (Plan to dress up—no tennis shoes, no jeans.)
	FYI – There will be a quiz over all 23 authors after the presentations.  You will receive handouts from all of the authors studied in AP English.  If you make your own copies, you need 24 copies (one for meJ).