Blog Four

Overview:

Part of a really close analysis of your primary source means understanding it on many levels.  The assumption of this assignment is that what is important to you, the analyzer, about your primary source will translate to other forms of your primary source that you create.  Therefore, your reenactment will help you to understand what is important to your primary source, but also what its essential rhetoric is.

Assignment

Please create a reenactment of your primary source.  Your results are limited only by your own creativity.  A reenactment is really, on many levels, an interpretation (think Civil War reenactments—what is important to the scene? It’s not really just like it was during the Civil War).  Some possibilities include: drawing a cartoon, creating a video of a reenactment of a scene from your source, creating an audio file of you reading your source (or a portion of it), writing a poem or short story, a drawing that re-imagines your primary source, a website that details the important aspects of your primary source.  These are just examples, not directions.  Please think carefully of your own creative response.

Lastly, please write a two paragraph response to your reenactment in which you think about the choices you made in your interpretation.  What was brought to the forefront?  What was lost?

Steps to Success:

ü  Create a reenactment of your primary source

ü  Post your reenactment to your blog

ü  Quickly communicate to me any difficulties you are having.