The title is a sentence, not “Slide 3”

From the back they read the title first. Slide 3 says nothing. A sentence says what the minute is about.

A title that says nothing from the back is as if the slide were not there.

The outline gave you sentences. Today you will not let them die in “Slide 3” and “Proof”. The back row reads the big strip at the top first. If there is no verb there, they do not know what to look at until you start speaking.

You can lose your voice. The title must not. The title is the slide’s billboard: one sentence that can carry a minute. It is not a drawer label. A drawer is for you in the outline on paper. For the class it is a claim. A claim can be repeated. “Slide 3” cannot be repeated, because it claims nothing.

Today you go through all titles. Where a verb is missing, add it. Where there is a paragraph, shorten. Where there is a slide number, delete. The list on the left can do order numbers. The wall has a different job. The job is to say what this minute is about.

A minute without a sentence at the top is mush even with nice bullets. Bullets tomorrow. Today a title on every box. The title must be readable from the door. It holds on each of the eight. Not only on the title slide.

Tereza left titles Proof 1, Proof 2, 閉じる. The teacher from the window did not know which proof was on the wall. Jonáš wrote “A wagon fort held more than a stone wall.” Even without speech it was clear. Tereza argued that in the outline it is numbered. The outline is for her. The class reads the wall. The wall got drawer labels. Today you rewrite Tereza’s labels into sentences. You will be angry they do not fit. They do not fit when they are a paragraph. They fitted when they are a slide claim. Shorter than the whole report sentence, but still a sentence. Still a verb. Still readable from the back.

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Door test: step back and read only the titles like a comic. If an arc does not follow from the comic, the titles are labels. Rewrite verbs. Delete slide numbers from the wall.

A drawer label versus a claim

A label: Intro, History, Fun facts, Slide 3, Continued. A claim: a sentence with a verb that says what the slide proves.

In Slides click into the title field, delete the placeholder, write a sentence. Size 36 to 44, one to two lines, not three. Three is already a paragraph in disguise. In PowerPoint the same in the title field at the top, not in a drawn box at the bottom.

Turn off a slide number in the footer if it crawls onto the wall: Slide → Number slides, untick. Order is enough for you on the left. For the class a sentence is enough.

The sentence must sit on the outline. If the outline had “proof wall”, the wall gets “A wall of wagons held better than a wall.” That is a translation from a note into a billboard. Without it the outline lives only on paper and the class sees drawers.

Title first. Then bullets. The title is a sentence on all eight. Check Present (F5) titles only. A film of eight sentences. The film must make sense even without your voice.

Wrong: “Slide 3”, “Facts”, “Fun fact”. Right: “A chalice was a sign, not only a cup.” After the fix Tereza rewrote all eight. Suddenly a comic came from the presentation. Jonáš had a comic from the start. The teacher from the last row nodded already at slide 3. They did not wait for speech to know what the slide is about.

An example from science: not “Bees”, but “Without bees there are fewer apples”. The same slide, a different title. The title carries a minute. A minute without a title runs into reading bullets. You do not have bullets yet. All the more the title must carry the slide on its own.

Eight titles. Eight sentences. No Slide 3. No Proof 1 as the only strip text. Numbering proofs may be in notes. On the wall a claim.

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Do not put a whole paragraph in the title so everything is in there. Everything belongs in notes and in the mouth. A title that wraps onto four lines vanishes from the back again. Shorten. Do not shrink type under thirty-six.

Four things you will build in this course

The course has four small projects. You do not have to do them all at once. Today you add only this:

🎯 A hobby in 5 slides

Five slides about something you like doing. One sentence about what it is. No paragraphs from your notebook.

Hobby: even five slides want sentences, not Hobby 2.

📚 A report

Eight slides for school: a start, three proofs, an end. The title on every slide is a sentence, not “Slide 3”.

Report: eight billboards, eight claims.

📊 Survey results

A chart from a table (not a screenshot from chat) and under it where the numbers come from.

Survey: the title says what the number means, not Chart.

⚖️ A defence

You say one sentence, show proof, answer “and what if…”. If you do not know, you say I don’t know.

Defence: a sentence on the slide is a claim, not point 1.

Rewrite labels into sentences

Go through all eight titles. Where there is no verb, add it. Where there is a slide number, delete. A film of titles must make sense without speech.

Open the outline file under a parent’s or the school’s account. On the left click the first thumbnail. Click into the title. If Slide 1 or Intro shines there, delete it and paste a sentence from paper with a subject and a verb. Size 40, contrast from the door. Wrap two lines at most. A third line means the sentence is long, not that type should be small.
The same slides 2 to 8. Hunt labels Facts, Continued, Proof. Translate them into claims. In PowerPoint almost the same: write into the title field at the top, not into a random text box at the bottom. If you drew the title outside the layout, put Apply layout back and write into the placeholder at the top.
Slide → Number slides, turn off the number on the area if it gets in the way. Leave order on the left. Leave the wall sentences. Present (F5), step back, read only the strips at the top. Does a comic of the arc come? Which slide is a hole? Rewrite that now.
If the sentence will not fit, do not take size 18. Take a crossing-out on words. Split a compound: part into notes, on the wall the core. Go through thumbnails on the left: in the preview the start of the sentence must be readable, not Slide 5. A preview is small. All the more the title must be sharp, not a paragraph.
Call a parent to the door. Present (F5). They read titles, you stay quiet. Do they repeat what this is about? If not, the titles are weak, not their eyes. Fix the two weakest sentences. Drive watches saving on its own. The workshop ends with a film of eight sentences that holds even in silence.

A comic from titles

If no story comes from eight strips, the class will wait until you start reading. Waiting is boredom. Boredom is a bad title.

Find and delete from the wall every Slide and number in a title.
Add a verb where there is only a noun.
Read the eight titles out loud as one paragraph. If it makes sense, the titles hold. If not, rewrite two.

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No title is Slide 3, Intro, Facts or Proof 1 as the only text.
Every title has a verb and can be read from the door.
A film of titles gives an arc even without my voice.

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Done when: All eight titles are a sentence. A comic from the presentation holds even in silence.

What to take from this lesson

A title is a claim, not a drawer label.
Slide 3 says nothing to the class. A sentence does.
Slide numbers belong in the list on the left, not on the wall.
Max two lines, size 36 plus. Do not shrink, you shorten.
A comic from titles is an outline test on the wall.
名前s in the examples (Tereza, Jonáš) are made up. Do not put your number, email or photo on a slide.