Reflective Essay 2. In the first group presentation, our group made the presentation with organized process. We conducted teamwork well and made a presentation that efficiently present the social and political thesis of the Poem by Jenny Zhang. Our group made the presentation in the following process. First, we analyzed the presentation prompt and divided the presentation into five different parts, Jenny Zhang as a writer, social context and purpose of poem How it feels, and political context and purpose. Then, we assigned those parts to four members and I prepared the presentation of the part of political context. Next step was deep-reading and searching for more supporting evidence. Finally, we met and synthesized the presentation. I read first and wrote an analysis of the poem, and then I integrated the text analysis into the visual presentation. I chose to wrote first, because the written analysis helped me to …show more content…
I included the interview to make the presentation more credible with supporting evidences. I also referred to another work by Jenny Zhang to present a more completed presentation. I read her work Other Girl, and took some notes and extract some supporting evidence. In the presentation slides, I added a slide of quotes from her work Other Girl. Our group used serval images for illustration. We added some photos of Jenny Zhang in the section of “Jenny Zhang as a writer”. These images helped the audience to get a clearer impression of Jenny Zhang as a person. Besides, we also used image illustration in the section of political purposes. There were two images of Asian American people protesting about racial issues, which corresponded to the political purposes of the poem. The images made the presentation much more intuitive for the audience. Here are two images we used in political purpose