Intro to Lit Unit 2 project

1. Introduction to Literature Unit 2 Project:
Seeing Literature as a Mirror, a Window, a Door
Task 1: Choose a fiction or memoir text we’ve read and a topic from the provided choices.
TOPIC CHOICE 1: CREATE A MULTIMEDIA “MIXTAPE” FOR THIS TEXT
In this project, you would compile a soundtrack of songs, a collection
of photographs, a series of videos, or a combination of these options
and others.
Your project would also include introductory and analytical passages
to help the reader understand the correlations you see between your
multimedia choices and the text.
Your goal is to help the reader better understand the text and your
connections to it through the media your present and analyze.
TOPIC CHOICE 2: PROPOSE AN ADAPTATION OF THIS TEXT
In this project, you would describe how you would adapt this text into
a different medium.
Address your letter to the author, the author’s estate, or another
audience that you think would be appropriate.
Your goal is to show your understanding of and connections to the text
and how that would help you illuminate the text through adaptation.
TOPIC CHOICE 3: Come up with your own idea, as long as it’s a
challenging approach to writing about your connections to the text,
and run it by your instructor before beginning your work.
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Task 2: Present and lead a discussion about your text and plans for the project.
Your presentation and discussion should last around 10 minutes. If you are using a text not everyone in
your group has read, first include a brief synopsis and description of the story. You should also give us
some background and context and read a short passage that gives us the “feel” of the story.
Next walk us through your plans for the project and lead the group in a discussion and analysis. The idea
of this portion of your presentation is to test and further develop the ideas for the final component of
your project. You will use an outline to guide your presentation and demonstrate that you prepared to
lead this portion of the class with your group.

2. Task 3: Create a final product in which you explore this text through multimedia and your personal
connections. The written portion of your project should include at least 500 words of text. It may also
include multimedia elements, either of your own creation or compiled from other sources. Choose the
Please follow informal MLA guidelines for format and citation as we have in previous assignments.
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 Project is complete and on Blackboard before class start time.
 Project focuses on a few specific ideas about the story expressed in a clear thesis
 The project presents clear, sophisticated, insightful ideas that recognize the
complexity of the topic
 The project is written in a consistent, academic tone without errors
 Project uses an ample number of quotations
 Project cites sources when necessary.
 Length is more than 500 words or an equivalent amount of work.
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 Project focuses on a few specific ideas about the story expressed in a clear thesis
 The ideas in the project effectively combine original observations with commonly
accepted ideas
 Project demonstrates academic style with, at most, only a few errors.
 Project uses at least two quotations
 Project cites sources when necessary.
 Length is at least 500 words or an equivalent amount of work.
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 The ideas in the project are generally logical and coherent
 The project demonstrates competent academic style
 Project uses at least one quotation
 Project cites sources when necessary.
 Length is at least 500 words or an equivalent amount of work.
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below
 Project does not present a focus in a thesis.
 The project’s development is insufficient to support its ideas adequately
 Project contains consistent errors in use of Standard English
 Project may use no quotations or uses them inappropriately
 Project may omit appropriate citations
 Length is less than 500 words or an equivalent amount of work.