Presentation Practice

Hello bloggers! This is Amir Sheffield from the mock trial here to give you a report on what we did this week. On Tuesday July 21, 2009, we split up and one group researched O.J. Simpson's life, and the other group researched the Dust Bowl. I was in the second group, reserching the Dust Bowl. I had a lot of fun learning about the Dust Bowl. I found out a lot of interesting facts about it, like that it killed a lot of people, and a lot of crops were destroyed. After gathering information, we did power point presentations in the USB building. Our mentors tought us what to do and what not to do in a presentions, and gave us the feedback on how our presentations went. We all learned new information about each topic, in fact, nobody from the entire group had even heard of the Dust Bowl before this. A couple of thing we learned about O.J is that he was a really good football player, but made some bad chocies in his life.



Here are some links to sources that we used to learn about our topics and used in our presentation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._J._Simpson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTRIALS/Simpson/simpson.htm

http://www.usd.edu/anth/epa/dust.html