Below please find your group assignment. Your first step should be to connect with the other members of your group so that you can begin working on your presentation. Keep in mind that your presentation (7-10 minutes, max.) should COMPLEMENT the reading and discussion we will be having in class about the text you’ve been assigned. This means it should add to our understanding and appreciation of the text/author/period/context in some CREATIVE way. (You are NOT presenting a biography of the author – though you could take a deep dive into some aspect of his/her life. Nor are you offering an analysis of your text in the way that we might during our class discussion.) If you are stuck, feel free to reach out to me for ideas, but some possible shapes presentations might take include:
-dramatizations (acting something out in live performance or video)
-exploring some aspect of the culture in which your text was produced
-finding a way to connect your text to something contemporary
-helping us to experience some aspect of the place in which this text is set
-taking a deep dive into one of the central issues raised by the text
-deepening our understanding of the historic context for your text
-using another art form to bring your text to life more fully
-offering your own text that responds in some way to the text you’ve been assigned
-creating some kind of audio/visual representation of your text
(These are just some ideas off the top of my head, but hopefully they will help to stimulate your own brainstorming.
Group Assignments
Oct. 2. William Blake: Britney, Tanvir, Aissata
Oct. 16. Frederick Douglass: Ethan, Yusuf, Jason, Richard S.
Oct. 23. Herman Melville: Jennifer, Marvin, Julian
Nov. 6. Leo Tolstoy: Ariel, Richard D., Abigail
Nov. 15. T.S. Eliot: Kate, Madison, Merichel
Nov. 20. Lu Xun: Daniel, Kiki, XiaoLin
Nov. 27. Franz Kafka: Stewart, Anthony, Albert
Dec. 6. Toni Morrison: Gregory, Richard R., Tony
