Wednesday, March 16, 2016

AP Lit: To Be or Not to Be Design Challenge

I've copy and pasted the text from the design challenge brief that was shared with you in your Google Drive. I thought it would be helpful for you to have here as you revise and explore new iterations. Any components of the project or documentation of your process could also serve as excellent content for your blog and standards evidence there.

To Be or Not to Be: Design Challenge

Design Challenge.  How might we create dramatic presentations of “To Be or Not to Be” to demonstrate our analysis and understanding of the play as a whole?

Soliloquy Criteria.

  • Must include original Shakespearean language, though it may be filtered through any sort of creative interpretation you so choose

  • Must take the form of a product that can be watched and experienced, including video, animation, animatic (storyboard w voice over), radio drama/podcast, live performance

  • Must be accompanied by a 1-page well-composed rationale that explains the intentions behind the production

  • Must feel like an excerpt from a larger production and be aligned to those grander intentions

To achieve that final criterion, you must also create the following “story bible”

Story Bible Criteria.

  • One paragraph descriptions for each of the central six characters: Hamlet, Ophelia, Claudius, Polonious, Gertrude, Laertes

  • Detailed description of the setting in which the narrative takes place

  • One paragraph summaries of each Act in your production, with particular attention to the relationship these events have to your staging of Hamlet’s soliloquy; your goal here is alignment

You may include any visuals here that you believe will help convey your concept.

Design Process Criteria.

Document each of the first three stages of the design process with meaningful evidence.  
Discovery.  (Research & Exploration)
Empathy.  (Audience and User Needs; Character Empathy)
Experiment. (Doodles and Storyboards, Maps and Maybes)

Eng 9: Freaks and Geeks and Speak with Ms Pulito

Hi folks,

These are the graphic organizers and blog prompts from when I was away and Ms. Pulito was running the show.

Speak
Empathy Map on “Freaks and Geeks” Character

Your task is to create an empathy map based on a character from “Freaks and Geeks” that we did not examine together during class. Use the things they say and do in Episode 1 to help you determine what they may be thinking or feeling. Make sure to include specific details and interpretations. Then, write a 2-3 paragraph blog post in which you send this character to Mt. Blue High School for a day. What happens? Where do they go? Who do they talk to? How do they get along with the students and teachers? Use your empathy map to help you decide!

Character’s Name: _____________________________________

Say
Think








Do








Feel

Speak

Feature Chart: Comparing Mt. Blue High School, Merryweather High School (from Speak), and McKinley High School (from “Freaks and Geeks”)

Give each school a “rating” of 1-5 for each criteria, with a score of 1 meaning “nonexistent” and a score of 5 meaning “very prominent.” Then, provide a 1-2 sentence justification for your rating. For the last category, come up with a criteria that you feel is somehow expressed in each of the three schools (examples might include skipping classes, positive--or negative--student/teacher interactions, parent involvement, athletics, art, etc).



Cliques
School Spirit
Bullying
Your choice of criteria:
Mt. Blue




Merryweather




McKinley






For your blog post, you are going to create a “casting call.”  Your job is decide the cast for EITHER a rebooted, remade version of “Speak” the movie (AKA no Kristen Stewart) OR for a TV series of the Mt. Blue Campus. You must choose at least 4 characters from “Speak” to cast OR 4 friends/faculty from MBC. Be specific and explain your reasoning.

SHOW YOUR WORK.

Blog.
1. Freaks & Geeks at MBC.  Write a 2-3 paragraph blog post in which you send this character to Mt. Blue High School for a day. What happens? Where do they go? Who do they talk to? How do they get along with the students and teachers? Use your empathy map to help you decide!

2. For your blog post, you are going to create a “casting call.”  Your job is decide the cast for EITHER a rebooted, remade version of “Speak” the movie (AKA no Kristen Stewart) OR for a TV series of the Mt. Blue Campus. You must choose at least 4 characters from “Speak” to cast OR 4 friends/faculty from MBC. Be specific and explain your reasoning.

Submit your Best Evidence for Blogging Standards Evidence 2!

Read. Speak up to page 140.
Due. Monday. 3.21.2016.

Start Planning. Design a Sanctuary for Others. 
Due. Tuesday, 3.28.2016