ENGL 2327: American Literature I (Boston): Getting Started

Compare a literary work and a film translation using a narrowly-defined argumentative thesis.

• 5-10 typed pages (double-spaced), not counting Works Cited page
• synthesizing evidence from your literary work and film with at least four (4) scholarly sources from the Lone Star College research databases
• Include relevant screenshots from the film as needed, with citation.

You can (and should) choose this same film for Project 3, but if you want to choose a different film you will that option.

Defend the importance of viewing the literature through a specific critical theory: establish a relationship between a literary work and critical theory and, in doing so, understand how the literary work becomes an expression of individual or communal values within a social, political, or cultural context.

• 5-10 typed pages (double-spaced), not counting Works Cited page
• at least four (4) scholarly sources from the Lone Star College research databases

In your presentation, you should focus on how your creative work reflects upon and/or reacts to the expression of social issues. It should effectively communicate your creative process and articulate how works in the arts and humanities express the values of the individual and society within a historical and social context.

• 10-30 minute video presentation
• Cite images or other sources you used

Develop an original work that reflects the visual choices explored in the film translation of a literary work from the reading unit. In your presentation, you should focus on those film-making techniques in a single scene that develop a literary theme. You can (and should) choose the same film that you are working with for Essay 3, but if you want to choose a different film you have that option.

• 10-30 minute presentation
• include citations for the film and any other sources used through in-text citations on each slide and on a Works Cited slide

Create a 15-30-minute video presentation wherein you articulate the components of your Soundtrack Presentation, sharing and summarizing both the literary text you have chosen to analyze and the connections to the songs you have selected to better understand the theme(s) of the literary text.

• include citations for the literary text, musical selections, and any other sources used through in-text citations on each slide and on a Works Cited slide at the end of your presentation.