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The Old Man And The Sea Assignment
Your
challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to organize a group and create a stunning project for Ernest Hemingway's book,
The Old Man And The Sea
Since
this is a group assignment, the group gets a mark. All members of the group share the mark. Your challenge as a group is to make sure that
you not only create a solid product, but that work is spread out equitably
amongst group members.
Topics: Choose quickly - once a topic is taken, it's
off the board!
1-
Hemingway Code
2-
Hemingway Biography 3-
Paris - 1920s
4-
Hemingway's writing style
5-
Hemingway's contemporaries (other artists he associated with)
6-
Life in Cuba before and during the reign of Fidel Castro
7-
Hemingway's hobbies
8-
The Christ figure as a literary device (and applicability in OMATS)
9-
The tragic legacy of the Hemingway family 10-
Why was Hemingway's work so popular?
11-
Hemingway and the critics
12-
Animal imagery in OMATS
13- OMATS - background (what was going on with Hemingway at the time of
the release of OMATS?
14-
Pop culture and OMATS - references made, and things going on in the
world, at the time of the story.
15- The Nobel prize. Discuss the history, and significance of the Nobel prize.
Your
presentation will be marked on content as well as presentation. Make sure you refer to your notes on evaluating
websites to maximize your presentation.
A
few sites to help you make good web decisions. http://www.horton.ednet.ns.ca/staff/scottbennett/webideas/index.html http://www.sojust.com/Building_a_website.html
SPECIFIC
WEB INSTRUCTIONS: To
successfully assemble a dynamic web presence, you must do the following:
1.
Collaborate and organise. Set
up your group and take an inventory of skills and abilities. Make sure you can meet all of the challenges
of the assignment.
2.
Research. Find
out what you need to know in order to have excellent content for your
site.
3. Plan for setbacks. There will be times when all of your group will not be at school. Don't sabotage your success by leaving all your information on one account. Share the presentation with the group.
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