Final Project

For my final project, I wanted to create a group novel project that would be adaptable to many of the novels I teach in my 11th grade American Lit course. Additionally, this class is intended to focus on the Historical/Biographical lens (it's taught chronologically) and to have a large research component. Even though this novel unit would not be the only place these skills are taught, I wanted to incorporate elements of them here.

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While I have a wiki for the course on which I include projects and assignments (with possibilities for student interaction), for this project I want students to create their own wikis in groups so that they have the opportunity to plan the organization on their own.

As the project stands at the moment, students need to (in groups) conduct Historical Research on the author and time period of the selected novel, individually create a blog for one character where they include a character profile (similar to a facebook profile), a comic demonstrating a defining moment for their character, and blog posts responding to the events of each chapter as that character. Students will then individually create bubbl.us maps for their characters connecting them to themes in the novel and will use the information contained on those maps to collaboratively write a literary analysis essay. All of their sources must be included on the Works Cited page and in-text citations must be used appropriately.