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Echoes
Write a letter to or from your future self in which you praise yourself for your imagination, resilience, and perseverence. Guidelines: Use a direct quotation from each of the following sources: 1. Churchill’s “Never Give In” speech. 2. Rudyard Kipling’s …
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You stumble upon a random letter on the path. You read it. It affects you deeply, and you wish it could be returned to the person to which it’s addressed. Write a story about this encounter.
Watch closely two people playing a board/video game. Write a poem about your experience.
Create a radio diary. Anyone can make a radio diary. Try your hand at making radio. Whether you’re interviewing a neighbor, or a grandparent, or someone you’ve never met, a microphone is a passport into their lives. If you or …
Write a short story with the first line – “He was terrified of small spaces and she knew” – and containing some sort of direct reference to each of the following: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopædia_Britannica http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Genealogy_of_Morality https://www.edx.org
[youtube video=NPGS308dT10] New world – big horizon Open your eyes and see it’s true New world – across the frightening Waves of blue – David Wilcox Write about a song that cheers you up when you are feeling blue. Include …
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The motif of isolation and “otherness” is a common one in art and literature. Select a text from your own reading or viewing that focuses on a character who is isolated and longs for another place or connection where he …
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Select one of the following quotations and write an essay explaining how one of the texts you have studied does or does not support the quote. “Art is coming face to face with yourself.” – Jackson Pollock “When I reflect …
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Read Anton Chekhov’s A Marriage Proposal. Meaning Identify the object of Chekhov’s satire in this play. Support your interpretation with a specific reference to the text. Why do you think Chekhov included the character to Chubukov in the play? What …
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Modernism Modernism Introduction Modernism Themes Make It New: The Rise of Modernism 30-1: Research these thinkers: Karl Marx, the naturalist Charles Darwin, the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, and the psychiatrist Sigmund Freud. What were their most important insights? What previous explanations …
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