Chronicle of a death foretold ...HW for Wed, the 20th--

The HW that is due Wednesday is at the bottom of this post. But first we need to talk about the #3 assignment. Ok, it looks like we will be doing a different approach to this book than the typical essay assignment. (You are welcome to DO the original essay assignment that was handed out, if this new approach doesn't work for you.)

So, what we are going to be doing is offering you the opportunity to interpret our book using a different artistic medium of your choice. Be thematic: you might want to find a controlling principle to guide your work.  You will want to make your work be ambitious and the product of a good amount of effort. (No Haikus, or stick figure drawings, lol).  There WILL be bumps in the process of creating your interpretation. Along with your finished artistic work, you be writing a 2 page "artist statement" that talks about your work and why you made the choices that you made. (More on how to do this later.)
You should also plan on your work being embedded in a special website that we are going to create that holds all these cool works that you will create.

There are a LOT of different things you can do. Below is the brainstorm that we came up with in class:

Children's book
Song (blues or story)
Obituary scrapbook
Screenplay or scene
Storyboard
Poem
Graphic novel with dialogue
Fan fiction/alternate story/conspiracy theory
Interpretative dance
Tattoo/memoriam portraits
Collage: surrealist/Dada, or mixed media
Telenovela
Photo pages for a novel, with quotes
Fake interview scenes: therapist, police, professor, etc
Diorama
Puppet show
Produce a song, write/perform
Russian nesting dolls with concepts inside each character
Web master


HW for Wed.

1. read the book
2. write up a one page proposal that talks about what you think you want to do for this assignment. It should be specific and should offer intellectual reasons why you want to do what you want to do. Bring this on Wed. ...