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For Next Week: Work on Flipgrid Presentation!

 REMEMBER: no more classes for Brit from 1800! Instead, all you have to work on is your book cover presentations on Flipgrid. The post about the presentation, along with detailed instructions about using Flipgrid, can be found here: http://grassobrit2.blogspot.com/2021/11/flipgrid-presentations-and-resources.html

Be sure you can log onto the Flipgrid site before you try to post your presentation. I added everyone to the site, but sometimes things don't work, as you know! Remember, too, that you will record the presentation on Flipgrid, so all you need is a completed powerpoint presentation (or something similar) open on your desktop. Again, the instructions are above.

If you have any problems finding appropriate art, please let me know. I know a lot of art and can give you a lot of ideas! Also, look back through our blog posts, where I've posted tons of art over the semester with this assignment in mind (hint, hint)! You can use anything you find on the blog, of course, or anything we discussed in class, or any of the related artists. 

Again, let me know if you have any questions. You can post your presentation at any time before the due date. I'll respond with short comments to your presentation, so stay tuned! It's been a pleasure to teach you this semester, and hope to see some of you next semester in World Literature from 1700, British Literature: The Worlds of Tolkien, or this Intercession in Superheroes as Literature! 

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