Final Exam Instructions

For Gamers:
Complete a 3-5 analytic video walkthrough. You will analyze one element of the game and explain how this element relates to the games overall theme or message.

If you're a Luddite, you're welcome to write a 2-3 page paper (double-spaced, Times New Roman) in MLA format (title page and works cited page).

For Translators:
Give me both the original and the translation. I'd also like you to write a paragraph (brief) just about the process, what you realized about translation, tough decisions, etc.

For Readers:
For Eligible readers - record a lengthy conversation and post it on soundcloud. In this conversation talk about the book overall, what it means, essentially, continue the conversation I overheard in the library. You'll be graded on the vocabulary you employ as well as your understanding of the book.

Comic Reader - record a monologue of 7-10 minutes in which you discuss one aspect of comics. It should connect form in content - only in comic form.

For Comic Artists:
Complete your comic.


As I won't be on campus I'm going to ask that you do the following so I can grade your projects when I get back.

1- Post your project somehow to your blog. Be sure to check that it works. Do not simply paste the url. Use a hyperlink. It looks much better.

2- Print your project - for those that are using writing or illustration - and put it in the AP LIT IN box in H301.

This project is due at the time and date of your final exam in the course.

Gone Home Gamers

SPOILER ALERT

This is only for gamers who have completed the game.

Read the following reviews from The Atlantic and from The Guardian. Then write your own review. You can post your review on whatever gamer site you like. 

Monday

I'm going to be doing some professional development outside of class on Monday. 

So in class Monday I'll ask you to continue working on your projects. 

Your progress will be given a formative grade based on this rubric on Thursday.

Jane Austen's P & P Modernization

There's been some news about a recent re-imagining of Pride and Prejudice in - ahem - Cincinnati. You can also read this as your final project. You'd just have to share your notes and later your thoughts about the book with the class.

The Way it Ends for Seniors

Seniors must imagine they have been invited to read the Class of 2016 a poem. As experts in poetry, you will choose one of these forms to write your poem in: sonnet, villanelle, sestina. It may be an ode, an elegy, or a lyric poem. This is the corresponding rubric.

Keep in mind your performance will be graded rather than your actual poem, so you'll want to practice.

The Way it Ends for Juniors

Choose one of the following options. You´ll be assessed once formatively and during our final exam day summatively.

 - Play the video game narrative everyone is talking about, Gone Home. You can either write a brief essay (2-3 pages) that analyzes the video game, or create an analytic walk through video that focuses on one part of the story. You can play the video game in class. The game will be paid for with the money raised during the Hamlet-a-thon.

- Translate a short story or poem or series of poems (length will be approved by teacher).

- Create a graphic novel of a short story. You can use computer software on campus for this, however I prefer people that are more artistically inclined do so.

- Adapt a poem to a song.

- Create a stop-motion LEGO version of any work we studied (in EVL).

- Create a series of concrete poems or sound poems.

- (Whole class only) Perform a one act play (comedy or tragedy)

For the Austen Fans: Jane Austen Bingo