Assignment Description
You will create a reenactment of a key scene or combined scenes from Great Expectations using an online animated program. Because I am familiar with GoAnimate, I have made that the preferred application. If you prefer another, that's fine. Just make sure you can share it.
Assignment Goals
Create a 25-30-second****** video reenacting a scene from Great Expectations. To demonstrate mastery (and achieve the highest grade possible), your assignment must fulfill the following requirements.
- Your scene should highlight one of the novel's major themes. If you're looking for ideas, check out this list of themes in Great Expectations.
- Your scene should include at least two of the following: anaphora, asyndeton, polysyndeton, epistrophe, parallelism, or antithesis. If you need a refresher on these terms, here it is (or you can check your notes).
Assignment Objectives
I am bound by educational decree to teach you and allow you to practice specific skills.Here are the officially decreed skills you'll be demonstrating for this assignment:
- SL.9-10.5 - Make strategic use of digital media (e.g., textual, graphical, audio, visual, and interactive elements) in presentations to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence and to add interest.
- W.9-10.6 - Use
technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update
individual or shared writing products, taking advantage of technology's
capacity to link to other information and to display information
flexibly and dynamical
- RL.9-10.10 - By the end of grade 9, read and comprehend literature.
- W.9-10.3b - Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue and pacing.
- L.9-10.5 - Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meaning.
*****Apparently, GoAnimate only allows up to 30 seconds per video on their free membership, so I changed the requirement from 60 seconds to 30 seconds. Whatever you do, don't pay the $39.99 for a membership just to get a good grade on this assignment. In fact, if you're going to spend $39.99 to get a good grade, you might be better served giving me the money. (For those without a sense of humor, that's a joke, so put down the phone. There's no need to call the RJ about teachers taking bribes)