Creative Paper
This one will not necessarily be fully in MLA format. A bit further down the page, you will see what I mean under “Presentation.”
another interruption – what is with that graphic?
Ah, the Wizard Guinea Pig is a bit unusual. He, in part, represents two things:
The Night Circus, the novel that inspired this assignment
The fact that you are guinea pigs, you are one of the first groups to attempt this feat
Now, to be fair, my past several 102 classes have had equally inventive projects relating to their novels, and, in fact, the third option here is very much like the Museum Project my students who read Station Eleven did the past few years, and those turned out excellent. If anything the Museum option below is considerably easier than what they did. Also, unlike the earlier students, you are going to get three very different options here, so if you get flummoxed by one topic, skip it in favor of one of the others.
Oh, and although their museums were different from what you will be producing if you do choose the Museum option,
Ideally, you will find this chance to be imaginative fun. Who can say?
Choose just one of the following two topics:
A lot more detailed instructions follow, but just to get you thinking, you are going to do one of the following:
Write a new chapter of The Night Circus that reveals a new “tent” that you create.
In the role of a reveur, write an account of your impressions of The Night Circus when it appears in ___________
Before you make a choice, you will want to read (below) what each project requires/involves, and don’t forget to look at the section on “Presentation.” That may change your thinking a whole lot.
Oh, and those of you who are trying to avoid reading the novel, well, you likely have no idea what any of this means. READ the novel! You need it to do this project, and you do need it to do Discussion 9, which is worth 40 points. It is a pre-writing assignment for this project.
“Presentation” – notes on some choices you have
Special Note About Length Requirement: However you choose to present the project, the text should be 1150+ words, Yes, this time, I am looking at word count rather than page count because some of the options are not going to be MLA format documents
You may present this project in several ways. Some make more sense for one topic than they do the others, and I will offer some possible suggestions in each of the expanded topic instruction sections below, but here are a few possible ways to present your project:
You may write in traditional, MLA-forma (with a Works Cited page if appropriate), though it will not be an essay, exactly. Note: MLA format is how authors are expected to submit their novels to publishers, so it would fit the “Write a new chapter” topic very well.
You may create a website (pictures are required, and you may also include audio and video if you like). NOTE: students often find this the most fun/interesting option. Be sure to use a FREE version of an easy-to-use site like Wix, or Simplesite or Weebly (there are many others); you would need to e-mail me the link. The museum option is especially good as a website.
A specialized sort of website called a blogsite (WordPress, Blogspot, etc.) can be done free and is particularly appropriate for something like a journal (so the reveur journal would work very nicely as a blog.
You may create a video walk-through (with a written script which you’ll turn in.
Consider a podcast (with script) or an Instagram “story” or ______________.
This is your invention, and you are being given a lot of freedom, so make this your own; have fun with it.
This must be a minimum of five full pages.
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