- Your essay exam over Brave New World is posted and available (or should be - let me know if you cannot get access to it) on Canvas. One question comparing and contrasting BNW and The Hunger Games as well as some analysis into what YOU think the authors of the work are trying to convey to you (the reader).
- It is due by Midnight, Tuesday, May 22. It will not be accepted after that point.
- It is open book .. open note .. but if you plagiarize or copy at all, it will become a zero and there will not be a change to "fix it" or "make it up" - answer the questions with original thoughts and ideas of your own and use evidence and specific examples from the stories to back up your statements.
- The instructions for the "Black Out Poetry" project are as follows ...
Blackout
Poetry Assignment
Assigned: Wednesday May 16th, 2018
Due: Tuesday, May 22nd, 2018
Background: Blackout poetry
is a type of poetry that takes words from an existing text to create a new
work. Usually, the poem expresses a
similar theme to the work it pulls from. It does not have to rhyme, but it
should create true meaning (i.e. not just nonsense) with few words.
Directions and Criteria:
1.
Select one page
of text from anything you have read since day one of your freshman year. Original text must be typed (it does NOT have to have the
MLA header, but should be in Times New Roman 12 or Calibri 11). So, either find
a PDF of the novel or reproduce a page out of the text.
2.
Lightly box out your words as you create your poem. Poem
should consist of 10-25 words.
3.
Begin blacking out the remaining text/creating your
background image. The image (in the background of the text, or around the text
somehow) should also relate to the theme of the poem and/or of the novel/play
as a whole.
4.
Poem should make sense and flow from top to bottom and
left to right (like normal text is read in Western societies).
5.
Project should be neat! Messy coloring, scribbling,
incomplete drawings, and simply blacking out the entire page are not
acceptable!
*Please see the examples (below) for further clarification. If you choose not to blackout the lines of text (and
you use color instead), that is totally fine. Then, we’ll call it “found”
poetry instead. J
