Soldier
Ants
The
Jungles of South America model
of a soldier ant
Life
in the Yukon snow
scene
The
History of New York City model
of NYC
The
Life of Jack London
The
Life of Jack Finney a
map of Thebes
The
Life of Sophocles a
Greek mask
The
History of the Theatre model
of Antigone’s
Greek
Burial Rites wedding veil
The
Suffragist Movement protest
banners
Equal
Rights for Women
The
Life of Mary Freeman
The
Life of John Steinbeck model
of covered wagon
19th
Century New England Farm Life
The
History of the Short Story map
of author’s birthplaces
The
Life of Edgar Allan Poe 19th
cent. handkerchief
The
Life of Washington Irving drawings
from stories
The
Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne model
of Poe’s 7 rooms
The
Industrial Revolution
The
Holocaust maps,
models of prison camps
The
Life of Elie Wiesel
The
Life of Sinclair Lewis
The
Life of Anton Chekhov maps,
drawings of authors and/
The
Life of Guy de Maupassant or their countries
The
Life of George Eliot replica
of a stone cottage
A
Weaver’s Life in the 19th Century model
of a loom
The
History of Coins Silas’s money bags
The
History of Language 8
parts of speech posters
You may also research the life of any other author that you studied in this class (book report authors included). Use your “advanced” imagination to find additional ideas!!
Semester
Project Guidelines
Your semester project counts as ¼ of
your 2nd nine weeks grade.
Therefore, it is vital (necessary for life) for you to do a good job on
this assignment. To receive a passing
grade, you must (1) create a project that relates to something we have studied
this semester, (2) write a report that includes at least 3 hand-written pages
of information relating to your project, and (3) write a bibliography that
contains at least 3 sources.
1. Project ideas include the following:
a. a clay map of the U.S. depicting birthplaces
of American authors
b. a Greek mask from Antigone
c. a covered wagon made of craft sticks (from
“The Leader of the People”)
d. a model of a loom from Silas Marner
e. a model of a thatched-roof cottage from Silas Marner
f. an audio tape of a scene from a story
g. a video tape portraying an author discussing
his work/life
2. The report must include the following:
a. a
title page, with your name,
period, and date in the upper right-hand corner and the title of your
report/project centered in the middle of the page
b. at least 3
pages of researched information relating to what we have studied this
semester. Begin your report with a
short ¶ (no more than ½ page) summarizing the story we studied. Then start a new ¶ immediately afterwards
about the life of the author or other related information. Do not skip lines between ¶’s. Use transitional sentences to move from one
subject matter to another. Your report
may be typed, but it must include a rough draft written in your own handwriting
in the back. This includes a rough draft of the bibliography page as
well. If you type your report, it must
be doublespaced with a font size of 12. If you do not type your report, you are
still required to include a rough draft at the back of your final paper. (In
other words, 2 copies of the report are required.)
Do not number the first page of your report. All other pages should be numbered in the upper right-hand
corner.
c. a
bibliography page in which
you must list at least 3 sources used in your research. Proper
bibliography format, including spacing, order, and content will be strictly graded.
If you are not sure how to use the correct format, then ask! You may also find specific examples in the
high school handbook. No encyclopedias
of any kind are allowed for this report.
You may use internet sources, but only
if you have already used the 3 required sources. Reference books are primary sources; the internet may be used as a
secondary source. The bibliography page
should be a separate page which is numbered consecutively with the report.
(See below for the
beginning of a sample paper and bibliography.)
The writer of this story was the most
important short story writer in
the
history of literature. Edgar Allan Poe
was born on January 19, 1809, in
Boston,
Massachusetts. . . . Poe died on October 7, 1849.
Poe used many literary devices in his
works. Of all these literary
devices, symbolism is probably the most
important. Symbols occur in
literature
when an author chooses an object or character to stand for
something
else. . . .
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Brooks,
Cleanth, and Robert Penn Warren, eds. Understanding Fiction.
New York: Appleton-Century Crofts, Inc., 1959.
Howe,
Irving, ed. The Literature of America:
Nineteenth Century. New
York:
McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1970.
Perrine,
Laurence, et al., eds. Adventures in Appreciation. Orlando:
Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1979.
Rogers, Jacob. Edgar Allan Poe: A Product of Early America. 19 January
1995. Available online <http://www.xyzpoe1849/>.
Projects Suggested
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