Tillie Olsen "I Stand Here Ironing" Application   Dorothy Minor Tulsa Community College

Application Activities

Application Activity 1:

Students will create a panel presentation using PowerPoint to provide information on the following areas:
 

• Tillie Olsen, the author
• Critical information on "I Stand Here Ironing"
• Important points concerning social history between 1930-1945
• Important points concerning political history between 1930-1945
• Affects of the  Depression on families, especially families with women as heads of household

Each member of the panel will choose a different area of focus from the list above.  Each person's portion of the presentation should contain 20-30 slides, covering the necessary material.  The presentation requires that the students consult a minimum of five resources, properly documented.  Students should exhibit an understanding of the technology by incorporating some automatic timing devices, pictures captured from web sites, and/or sound or video.  Students should be able to manipulate the technology skillfully so that the technology enhances the presentation rather than detracts from it.  Students should include a correctly formatted Works Cited and internal citations as needed.

Application Activity 2:

Working in pairs, students will develop criteria for judging a web site.  Once they have developed their criteria, they will locate two web sites on the subjects listed in Application Activity 1 and apply the criteria to the two web sites.  These findings will be presented to the class as an oral presentation, using the web site at a presentation computer station along with their criteria posted on Write-On Cling Sheets supplied in class.

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