Bachillerato 3rd term Projects

3rd Term B1 English Literature Projects

Project 1 (in groups of 4/5) oral presentation + 10 minutes video including main scenes of the story.  Short oral presentation including:

-                     Context and biography

-                     Summary

-                     Analysis of Major Characters

-                     Themes and Symbols

Each group must choose one of the following authors and novels:

1922 - James Joyce, Ulysses

1924 - E.M. Forster, A Passage to India 

1925 — Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway  or A Room of One’s Own (1929)

1932 - Aldous Huxley , A Brave New World

1951 — J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

1952 — Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot 

1955 — Vladmir Nabokov, Lolita

1957 — Jack Kerouac, On the Road

1958 — Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart

1961 — Iris Murdock, A Severed Head

1962  -- Doris Lessing,The Golden Notebook 

1969 — Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

1978 – And Still I Rise, Maya Angelou

1981 — Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children or the Satanic Verses

1994 ___ William Trevor Felicia's Journey

  

Project 2 Compulsory reading 1984 by George Orwell

AFTER READING THE NOVEL (May, 4th) Oral presentations in groups

1. Context and Setting: Setting: Place the book on a historical time line. What happened before the book was published? What has happened since? Discuss: Which of Orwell’s predictions have become a part of history, not only in communist countries but in the free world?

Put together a collection of photographs of current scenes that capture the tone of 1984. A slide show with narration would also be a good idea.

2. Plot: Watch a video production of 1984. How is the book different from the movie? Was it easier to understand or more difficult? Were scenes left out or changed, and if so, how did those omissions or changes affect the way you interpret the book?

3. Analysis of Major Characters

4. Themes and symbols, and how does Orwell use them? Debate/Discuss “Can history be rewritten? Should it be?”

5. Point of View Analysis & Hold a debate between Party members and revolutionaries or between Inner and outer Party members.

6. George Orwell’s Animal Farm, compare and contrast to 1984. Debate the following topics: (a) Can men forget they are human? (b) Can men create a perfect society? (c) The greatest deterrent to achieving goals is hopelessness.

Project 3 Research and Writing Task;

The 20^th Century literary periods:

Victorian Literature

Realism

Naturalism

Modernism

Bloomsbury Group

Existentialism

Beat Generation

. Provide an introduction, brief description, main characteristics, major writers for each period and bibliography.  (Digital format is compulsory)

Non-compulsory actitivities (individual or in groups)

-                     1984 Make a video depicting sections from the book

-                     Extra oral presentation on one of the remaining  authors and novels above

-                     May Festival:  Volunteer performance, please confirm your participation ASAP. You can either say a 20^th Century poem or depict an excerpt of one of the novels. No papers allowed.