you will create a project that reflects on our first four modules. This is meant to be a fun way to look at literature in a different way, and to think “outside the box” with some of the characters and author’s we have spent the first part of this course getting to know.
Below are the steps, suggestions, explanations and assessment guidelines for completing your midterm project.
STEP 1: REVIEW THE LIST OF GENRES ATTACHED .
STEP 2: REVIEW THE CHARACTERS WE’VE READ AND DISCUSSED SO FAR IN THIS CLASS:
Examples include:
- Grendel
- Grendel’s mother
- Beowulf
- Jabberwocky
- William Frankenstein
- Victor Frankenstein
- Elizabeth Lavenza Frankenstein
- Many more!
STEP 3: CHOOSE YOUR CHARACTER AND GENRE TYPE
(You are generating a product that uses the character and a type of writing from the genre chart. You will also locate sources that support this product: the actual text, articles written by people criticizing this character, etc.)
For example, you may choose:
- to write a wedding announcement for Elizabeth and Victor
- write an editorial about the “creature’s first sighting”
- write Grendel’s obituary
- write a poem that tells of Robert Walton’s feelings when Victor dies
- write a personal letter to the creature from the point of view of old Mr. De Lacey
- many more!
STEP 4: FIND THREE SUPPORTING ARTICLES THAT HELP YOU PROVIDE CONTEXT TO YOUR CHARACTER AND GENRE TYPE.
(One of these supporting articles can be the actual text from which you learned of this character.)
- These could be in the format of articles that explore the character a little further
- They could be examples of the type of writing you are doing (like a personal letter, obituary, wedding announcement) etc
