Group presentations should focus on introducing some important insights of an area of sociological study to other members of the class.  I expect you to use the concepts from the books you reviewed for your first book review.  Put these books together to form a relatively coherent whole.  If you are not presenting, it is in your interest to attend class, since some test questions may come from group presentations and since a quiz is also possible.

Each group should get a fairly detailed outline to the entire class on the class before your presentation.  This outline will form part of your group's grade.

Everyone in each group should speak (for approximately the same length of time - though I won't get out my stopwatch).

Try to integrate concepts from all the books reviewed so we can see connections and discrepancies between books.  Or, use concepts from one or two books to outline a general framework and show how some of the other books fit into that framework.

Focus on fairly big questions that will play well to an audience that hasn't read these books.  Don't get too caught up in little details unless they graphically illustrate a bigger point.

Each group will have 20 - 25 minutes for its presentation.  If another group is scheduled after you, I may have to cut your group off at 25 minutes.

Several members of each group should meet with me briefly (before or after class will be fine if you can't make it to my office hours) to go over their presentation at least 3 to 4 days before the presentation (just to make sure everything looks ok).