This semester, each student will engage in "real literature," and undertake a project that has real life impact on the literary community. Students may choose from a broad range of possibilities, including community outreach, work in the field of digital humanities, or academic/scholarly writing. Maybe you want to volunteer to read books to young children or the elderly. Maybe you want to create a data visualization project to track changes in language over the North American continent during the Age of Exploration. You might decide to create a hypertext version of Moby Dick, with whaling chapters linked up to online photos or informative links. Maybe you read poetry aloud and create downloadable MP3 files, to expand the digital public domain archive of audiobooks. You can choose to work in the "real world" or online, but your work must in some way reach out to the community and create a real, positive contribution.
The topic of your presentation this semester will be your Real Literature Project.
From the VA SOL for 12th grade English:
The student will make a 5 to 10 minute formal oral presentation.
a) Choose the purpose of the presentation: to defend a position, to entertain an audience, or to
explain information.
b) Use a well-structured narrative or logical argument.
c) Use details, illustrations, statistics, comparisons, and analogies to support purposes.
d) Use visual aids or technology to support presentation.
e) Use grammatically correct language, including vocabulary appropriate to the topic, audience,
and purpose.
The student will evaluate formal presentations.
a) Critique relationships among purpose, audience, and content of presentations.
b) Critique effectiveness of presentations.
Use this form to do your peer evaluations.
