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Project
Mrs. Foster
America Literature
Multi-genre Project
This project is intended for you to explore The Death of a Salesman and prove your understanding of the text. This is a multi-genre project meaning that you have many different options for this project. It is not a difficult project as it is the end of the semester, but do a thorough and professional job. As well, your project must include a one-page explanation of your project. You have many choices for this piece. Get creative and have fun!
A. Collage. Create a poster-board-sized collage that illustrates the salient points of a character or theme of the work. Remember that a collage has little if any white space and that the focus is on an array of pictures and words representative of the book.
B. Digital Book Trailers: Create a 1-2 minute Digital Book Trailer using Photo Story of Movie Maker that functions to generate student interest in a particular piece. Include text, high-quality images, color, video and narration (if appropriate) to generate mystery/tension/intrigue in the manner of TV shows and film trailers.
C. Character Locker: Create a “character locker” for a character or real person from this work. Create the “locker” using a shoebox-sized box, decorating the outside of the “locker” appropriately. Within the locker, place items that are important to the character or person, relying on real or toy items, not drawings. Base your choices on your reading.
D. Character Interview: Write a 3-5 page typed interview with a character from the play. Create a setting and rationale for the interview, and use standard interview format. Ask questions and write answers that reveal information about the character or person that you gathered from your reading of the work. This should embody the personality of the character through dialogue.
E. Facebook/My Space: Create a profile for a character or real person on a facebook.com. Indicate the skills of the character and design the profile/site to reflect his or her traits, talents, interests, connections, or unique experiences.
F. Soundtrack: Choose a minimum of five unique songs that have fitting lyrics for your piece. Scan or type out the song lyrics and annotate (explain and make comments on) the lyrics for an explanation as to why you chose that particular song for the character. Burn a CH of the songs and create a CD cover that illustrates a major motif or theme of the text.
G. Something else: Get creative and come up with your own project. If there is something that you are particularly interested in, then incorporate that into this project. Make sure you get prior approval before beginning your own project though!
Paper Topic Options
Super Man’s Death
Bigfoot
Shroud of Turin
Mary Celeste
The Taos Hum
The Black Dahlia
Voynick Manuscript
Amelia Earhart
Nessie
Crop Circles
Atlantis
Eldorado
The Iron Pillar
Tutankhamen’s Mummy
Stonehendge
Easter Island
*Feel free to come up with your own idea as long as it is approved by me!
Journal entries for unit 5
“The Night the Ghost Got In” by James Thurber (898)
“Here is New York” by E.B. White (903)
“Birches” by Robert Frost (882)
“Stopping By Woods non a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost (885)
“Mending Wall” by Robert Frost (886)
“Out, Out” by Robert Frost (888)
Page 887 #2,4,7
Page 889 #5,6
“Dust Tracks on a Road” by Zora Neale Hurston (914)
“The Negro Speaks of Rivers” by Langston Hughes (926)
“I, Too” by Langston Hughes (928)
“Dream Variations” by Langston Hughes (930)
“Refugee in America” by Langston Hughes (931)
Page 929 #1,4,5,6
Page 931 #3,4,5
“The Dark Tower” by Countee Cullen (938)
“A Black Man Talks of Reaping” by Arna Bontemps (939)
“Storm Ending” by Jean Toomer (940)
THINKS YOU NEED TO KNOW FOR TEST!
Meter, Stressed, Unstressed syllables, foot, iamb, iambic pentameter (881)
Blank Vers (881)
Pastorals (881)
Informal Essay (make sure you know the traits) (897)
Humor (897)
Hyperbole (897)
The Harlem Renaissance (910)
Autobiography (913)
Speaker (925)
Metaphor/ Extended Metaphor (937)
Imagery (937)
American Literature Journal List
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot
“A Few Don’ts” by Ezra Pound
“The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter” by Ezra Pound
“In the Station of the Metro” by Ezra Pound
“Winter Dreams” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Page 760 #4-6 and Page 761 #9
“The Turtle” by John Steinbeck
“Old Age Sticks” E.E. Cummins
“anyone live in a pretty how town” by E. E. Cummings
“The Unknown Citizen” by W. H. Auden
“The Far and the Near” by Thomas Wolfe
“Of Modern Poetry” by Wallace Stevens
“Anecdote of the Jar” by Wallace Stevens
“Ars Poetica” by Archibald MacLeish
“Poetry” by Marianne Moore
“In Another Country” by Ernest Hemingway
“The Corn Planting” by Sherwood Anderson
“Ambush” by Tim O’Brien
“Chicago” by Carl Sandburg
“Grass” by Carl Sandburg
“The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” by Katherine Anne Porter
“A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner
January 11, 2010
Today we did an experiment with out own writings. How did an Imagist write poetry? Remember, you should know the basic three rules of Imagist writings as expressed by Ezra Pound.
Next, we took a look at Ezra Pound’s “The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter” and “In a Station of the Metro.” Be sure that you have journaled for both of these works.
January 7, 2010
Today we began by studying “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot. Why do you think this poem is so difficult to understand?
Can you answer where the character is going? What is he describing?
Who is the “you and I” that the narrator addresses?
How does stream of consciousness play a role in this poem?
What is the passage from Dante’s “Inferno” expressing at the beginning of the poem?
Answer the questions above. Make sure that you especially know how and why this work fits into the category of dramatic monologue, an example of stream of consciousness, and modernist poetry.
Below is a video of the audio clip of T.S. Eliot reciting “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
January 6, 2010
Today we continued to explore the historical background of the Modern Era of American literature. The history is crucial to understanding and having an appreciation for the literature of that time period. We viewed a power point for this information, but I will post this at a later date when we have finished going through it.
Make sure that you have finished the readings for “The Love Poem of J. Alfred Prufrock” by Jonathan Swift. Tomorrow we will explore this piece and see if we can gain a little unerstanding!
Make sure that you are keeping up with the journaling!
January 5, 2010
Welcome to a new year! I hope that this semester is as exciting as the last!
Yes, we already dove head first in the material! Make sure that you stay on top of your journaling this semester.
Remember that as we go along in this course, try to apply some of the readings to your own life. Literature is amazing because it teaches life lessons! We can learn so much through the written word, and I can only hope that you will learn to have a love and appreciation for it.
Today we considered the impact of literature during the time of the Great War, the Great Depression, and the roaring twenties. How did various inventions change the way of life for the American people? How might war have changed literature? We are entering the Modern Era of American literature. Why is it called the Modern Era?
For tonight’s homework, read pages 716-720. This is a fairly hard piece, but reread it if necessary. Consider what the work is about. What is the deeper meaning behind the text. Why would Eliot write such a poem? Make sure that you journal on this piece.
Mrs. Foster's American Literature Class 