1.For my Individual Oral Presentation, I discussed the protagonist and antagonist in the novel The Rock of Tanios. My argument and thesis statement was that they are foils. In order to introduce this, my hook was a skit of a scene between the two characters, Tanios and Raad, which portrayed a major conflict between them. I presented my argument through a Power Point presentation and supported it with evidence and quotes from the text.
2. Before I started working on my presentation, I scanned the book for quotes to make sure that my argument could be well supported. By doing this, I also came up with another argument based on the events in the story which was that the major events in the novel happened because of the conflicts between Tanios and Raad. This argument also supports my thesis which is that they are foils since that is the reason conflicts arose between them. I then came up with my hook. I picked a passage which included a major conflict between Tanios and Raad and also showed how they were foils, and I used it as a skit for my hook. During the presentation, I rushed through my points because I didn’t want to go over the time limit, and as a result, it was shorter than it should have been. In addition, I hesitated a lot. I know that I should have been more confident in giving my presentation since I had a well supported argument. After, I watched my presentation, and I found it very helpful since I was able to see the way I presented, its effectiveness, and the weaknesses I had in my argument.
