Oral Presentations
Each student must give an oral report (5-7 minutes) on one of the topics selected by Dr. Medina.
Grading criteria and break down:
1. A handout 25%
a. Design a handout organized as follows:
b. Provide enough information on your subject (You can add pictures, graphics, maps, charts as needed or desired)
c. Include a short bibliography of sources that can help somebody wishing to further research the topic.
d. List questions that you’ll ask your audience right after your presentation.
e. Please, make enough copies of your work to distribute to your classmates.
2. The presentation’s content 25%
1. Please, make sure you research your topic carefully so you can present an interesting, educational, and well-organized presentation.
1. DO NOT READ YOUR PRESENTATION.
1. It is impossible to get an “A” if you merely read out a text that you have previously prepared. Instead, work from an outline or notes and concentrate in keeping your audience interested in your exposition. Important: Do not read your presentation off a powerpoint presentation either.4. Visual aids 25%
1. Using visual and audio aids will probably help you deliver your message more effectively (some of your classmates might not be able to understand your every word in Spanish). Please, feel free to use overhead transparencies, slides, power point presentations, pictures, maps, background music, or whatever visual or audio aid that might help you deliver a more enticing presentation.
.List of Topics:
(This is a tentative list. If you are interested in a topic not listed here, please contact me.)People:
Discovery/Encounter, Conquest, Colony
• Huáscar &/or Atahualpa (Incas)
• Cuáthtemoc (Aztecas)
• Isabel de Castilla y Fernando de Aragón (Spain)
• Américo Vespucio (Italy/Portugal)
• Fernando de Cabral (Brasil)
• Fray Antonio Montesinos (Santo Domingo)
• Carlos V (Spain)
• Felipe II (Spain)
• Juan Diego (México)
Independence
• José María Morelos (Mexico)
• General Santa Anna (Mexico)
• Maximiliano y Carlota (Mexico)
• Benito Juárez (Mexico)
• Gabriel García Moreno (Ecuador)
Writers:
• El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (Spain/Peru)
• Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda (Cuba)
• Jorge Isaacs (Colombia)
• Andrés Bello (Venezuela)
• Juan León Mera (Ecuador)
• Cirilo Vilaverde (Cuba)
• José Mármol (Argentina)
• José Hernández (Argentina)
• Ignacio de Altamirano (Mexico)
• Esteban Echeverría (Argentina)
Painters:
• Academia de San Carlos (México)
• Dr. Atl (Mexico)
• José María Velasco (Mexico)
• Miguel Cabrera (México)
• Johann Moritz Rugendas (Chile)
• Alejaidinho (Brasil)
• Arte precolombino (any aspect)
• Arte de la colonia (any aspect)
Events:
• The Mayan Calendar
• The Treaty of Tordesillas (Spain/Portugal)
• El retablo
• Pre-Columbian music
• Music from la Colonia
• 19th Century Caribbean Music
• La Confederación Centroamericana
• The Guadalupe-Hidalgo Treaty (Mexico/USA)
• The Mexican-American War
• The Cuban American War
• Las Leyes de la Reforma (Mexico)
• The War of the Triple Alianza (Paraguay, Argentina, Brazil)
• The Panama Canal
Additional Topics
• Any of the Indian civilizations not studied in class (e.g. Khuna, Guaraní, Araucanos, etc).