20-Minute Presentation Rough Draft

Topic: Video Game Journalism

EQ: What is most important for a games journalist to know?

Objective: To teach the students that a passion for video games is a crucial element into being a successful games journalist. I also want them to know what exactly having a passion for something is.

Lesson Plan:

1. Introduce myself, my topic, and essential question. Then I will ask if any person has ever read or seen any type of game journalism either in magazines or on the web.
2. Tell how I came into choosing this as a topic, which was me reading magazines growing up and my passion for video games.
3. I will then ask the class if they know what having passion for something is, and asking them to define the word passion in their own words.
4. After that, I'll give the dictionary definition for passion then give it to them in my own words.
5. I will give multiple situations, and ask the students whether or not that is true passion or not.
6. I will conclude by relating the definition of passion to one of my answers, which is passion for games and how it is a big factor in actually getting into the job but isn't that big of a deal when actually writing the articles and stuff.

Materials: Actually, now that I think about it, I'm going to need a power point presentation kind of thing. It would be easier to actually do that than to make separate boards and what not.