Your Admirable Famous Person (a Hero) PowerPoint

What should be on the PowerPoint:


Your PowerPoint will have 8 slides (or up to 11).

Here is the template you may use to make creating your PowerPoint quicker and easier.
Open this link, then click on the "Download" tab to open the template.  
Famous Person PowerPoint Template.ppt


The slides will include these, in this order:

1. cover slide with picture of the famous person, that person's name, your name(s), and period
2. information slide with a heading, a photo or other illustration, 4 or more  bullets of information: Life Before Fame (birth, childhood, youth)
   
3. Information slide with a heading, a photo or other illustration, 4 or more bullets of information: How He/She Became Famous
4. Information slide with a heading, a photo or other illustration, 4 or more bullets of information:  Obstacles He or She Overcame (or) Why He/She is Admirable
5. information slide with a heading, a photo or other illustration, 4 bullets of information: Major Accomplishments
6. information slide with a heading, a photo or other illustration, 4 bullets of information: Personal Life (family, hobbies, like or dislikes, quotes)
   
7. information slide with a heading, a photo or other illustration, 4 bullets of information: Other Interesting Information
8. bibliography slide with a heading and 3 or 6 citations created using bibme and/or citations provided by the database or encyclopedia
   

You may add up to three extra slides.

Important!!!

Make It Your Own
The information for the bullets on your slides should be in your own words.  Read about your famous person from several sources, then synthesize what you have read by putting the information into your own words.  

Edit Your Work
Don't forget to edit for capitalization, spelling, punctuation, and other conventions.  Did you know that the titles of books and movies are capitalized (all the important words) and italicized?

Creating a Bibliography

Bibme for Creating a Bibliography
This is the easiest bibliography maker I've found.  

  http://www.bibme.org/


Try it.  When you first get to it, you need to click on the orange tab in the center for  "Website."

Directions:

1. As you are researching, save the URL for each site you find useful. 
2. When you get to the site bibme.org, click on the middle tab marked "website."
3. Copy the URL (in the address bar) for the site you are taking information from.   
4. Paste it into the area proved on bibme. 
5. Click on "Load Info." 
6. If needed, fill in the title of the article. 
7. Look on the website you want to use for a sponsor or publisher and date created.  You can often find that information at the bottom of the page.  The sponsor/publisher will not be a company that does web design.   It will often be a company, corporation, or individual.   On EBSCO it may  be given at either the top or the bottom of the article.
8. If there is not a current date last updated or a particular date published, you could use the copyright year -- again at the bottom of the page. Often the sponsor or publisher is next to the copyright date.  
9. Fill in the information you find in the appropriate spaces. (For most entries there is NOT a version number.)
10. Look for an author (writer) of the information.  Add that if there is one.  If not, click on "No Author."
11. Scroll down and click on Add to My Bibliography. 
12. Look in the right hand column for the bibliography entry created for you. Copy that and save it in the cell for the citation for that source.

Use bibme as an easy way to create bibliography entries -- unless you are using an online encyclopedia or other source (such as SIRS Discoverer) that gives  a bibliography entry at the bottom of the web page!   In that case, copy the citation given for that article or entry and paste it onto your document.  Biography Reference Center also gives you an already made citation.  Just click on the golden/yellow page icon at the top right, and use the one labeled " MLA."

A bibliography entry (which goes on the last slide of the PowerPoint) looks like this:
Scott, Westerfeld. " westerblog." westerblog. Scott Westerfeld, 31 Oct. 2011. Web. 1 Nov. 2011. 

not like this:
http://scottwesterfeld.com/

[If Bibme isn't working , try http://easybib.com/ .]

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