Choose one of the following projects to work on individually or in a group (with no more than four members). The project will be worth ______ points and is due on __________________________. Remember to be creative but appropriate!
1. WRITING 2. 3. VIDEO 4. VIDEO 5. VIDEO
There are many RESEARCH/WRITING Film a staged debate between Choose a scene from the Imagine you literary allusions in Research the history of Faber and Beatty. One student novel that is especially are a TV Fahrenheit 451. fire departments, their should act as the moderator who important. With a group of reporter Choose five quotes equipment, and some will pose questions about societys students, type a script for the interviewing from literature in the famous fires. You might problems. The students playing scene and film it. Hand in a Mildreds book (include the also want to interview a the roles of Faber and Beatty typed copy of your script friends after page numbers). firefighter in your should give solutions they feel the (double spaced, 12-14 point, the fire and the Then explain if and community to find out characters would give. Hand in a easily read font). murder. Give how each quote what services your fire typed copy (double spaced, 12-14 your on-the- relates to the novel. department provides. point, and easily read font) of the scene report. The quotes and Type (double spaced, 12- questions and answers used in Hand in a explanations must be 14 point, easily read font) video (script). typed copy of typed (double spaced, a summary of your the script 12-14 point, easily findings. Include a (double spaced, read font). works cited page if your 12-14 point, sources (MLA format). easily read font).
Design a different Montag, Mildred, and *Make your own soundtrack for Imagine that you find a flash Write an cover jacket for the Beatty all seem to have Fahrenheit 451. Create a playlist drive next to the computer of original ending book with an original double personalities. of at least 5 songs, and then Montag, Clarisse, Mildred, for Fahrenheit blurb or tagline that Choose one and draw a burn a CD (using legal sites Beatty, or Faber. The drive 451. First give would make someone picture showing the two like itunes, Zune Marketplace, contains personal documents: the plot want to buy the faces of the character. etc.) in the order they would letters, music, photos, To summary, and book. Design the Add an appropriate appear in the book. Create a CD do lists, data, saved emails, then supply front and the back quotation from the jacket that illustrates the book (in facebook profile info., poems your own cover. novel. your eyes). This should be in written by the character for ending as if you color. Also include the titles, and his or her eyes alone, etc. were the author performers of the songs in the Decide on 4 or 5 documents (1-2 typed, order they appear in the jacket. or files, recreate them, invent double spaced, *Type a list of the song titles, file names for each and 12-14 point, along with the artists, where the create a fake printout of the easily read song fits into the book (page drive directory (or table of font). number required), and explain the contents) showing all of the action occurring when the song filenames. Print all of these would be playing.) Along with documents and place them the list, explain your reasoning together in a packet about for choosing your selection. the character. *Select one song to play and *The four or five files you explain in front of the class for recreate cannot be all photos, extra credit. or all music. They must be a combination of different files. 11. COLLAGE 12. WRITING 13. COMIC BOOK 14. RADIO AD 15. POSTER Cut out magazine Exaggerate either Draw a comic book complete with Create a radio ad Make a wanted poster pictures to make a characteristics or bubble-style conversations showing an for the book. Type for one of the characters collage or a poster events and write a incident in Fahrenheit 451. out the script (12- or objects in the book. illustrating the themes tabloid-style news 14 point, easily Include the following: of the book. Include story related to the read font) and (a) a drawing or cut out a brief response book. Include record it using picture of the character explaining the illustrations. The story Audacity audio or object, (b) a physical symbols and pictures must be typed (1-2 software (or a tape description, (c) the you used and why typed, double spaced, recorder). Be sure misdeeds of the (typed, double 12-14 point, easily read to add music character or object, (d) spaced, 12-14 point, font). (podsafeaudio.com) other information about easily read font). and sound effects. the character/object that Your poster must be might be important, (e) at least 12 X 18 the reward offered for inches and should the capture of the include a minimum of character or object. 10 pictures or images. 16. WEBSITES 17. BOARD GAME 18. MOVIE POSTER 19. 20. WRITING Create a list of Create a board game Design a movie poster for the book. DICTIONARY In The Catcher in the favorite websites a based on events and Cast the major characters in the book Make a dictionary Rye, Holden Caulfield character in the book characters in the book. with real actors and actresses. Include containing 20 or describes a good book as would most By playing your game, a scene or dialogue from the book in more difficult one that when youre frequently visit. members of your class the layout of the poster. Remember, words from the done reading it, you wish Include 3-5 sentences should learn what it should be PERSUASIVE if you want book. Your the author that wrote it (typed, double happened in the book. people to come see the movie! dictionary must be was a terrific friend of spaced, 12-14 point, Your game must typed, listed yours and you could call easily read font).for include the following: alphabetically, and him up on the phone each on why your a game board, a rule include definitions whenever you felt like character likes each of sheet, and clear and illustrations it. Imagine that Ray the sites. directions. (pictures) for Bradbury, the author, is ALL of the words. a terrific friend of yours. Write out an imaginary telephone conversation between the two of you in which you discuss the book and other things as well. (1-2 pages typed, double spaced, 12-14 point, easily read font). 21. CURRENT 22. POEM/SONG 24. T-SHIRT EVENTS Write a poem or song Design and make your own T-shirt with Gather a collection about the story (typed, an illustration about the novel. The (at least 10 -20) of 12-14 point, easily read illustration might be all about a specific current events (from font). Length: at least character or scene, a movie poster, a the newspaper, 5 stanzas long. May most wanted poster, an ad. for the magazine, or the be video taped, or book, a collection of quotes, etc. Create Internet) that reflect performed in class for a design using color-fast marking pens, incidents that closely extra credit. or on the computer with special iron-on parallel those in the printer paper (available at Staples, Wal- novel. Write 2-3 mart, etc.) The T-shirt does not have to sentences about each be new, can be a variety of sizes (fitted article. T to XXX Large.no baby clothes though) and any color, but must be an original design. *Include a brief typed response on a separate sheet of paper explaining the symbols and pictures you used and why (typed, double spaced, 12-14 point, easily read font).