The project is a creative response to one or related texts we've read. You may work individually or in groups of up to four students. The project should reflect either a creative or analytical focus.
If you choose the creative track, you will create either a video or a visual artifact. For the video, you may stage, direct and film a re-enactment, a re-interpretation or a response to one or two of the texts.
You may also set one or more texts to song (country music, Rap?) and film the performance. If you are more inclined towards visual imagery, you might create a comic book based on one of the texts or tangible interpretation.
If you choose the analytical track, you might develop an in-depth character study (utilizing research) or a presentation on a cultural event or a theory connected to the literature we've read or create a website that connects and analyses each of the texts.
Both creative and analytical projects require a 1 page reflection that discusses what you hoped to accomplish with your project and what you learned over its development.
Viktor Navorski-
Questions to consider:
¦ What do we learn about Viktor's homeland and how does this pfit with the Western stereotype of post-communist Eastern Europe?
¦ What in the way Viktor dresses, walks, speaks, behaves marks him as an "Eastern European"? How does he "study" English (and transforms himself at least in appearance)?
¦ How would you explain the fact that we never learn anything about his life in Krakozhia or even about his profession?
¦ Why is it Viktor's humanity that angers most the film's "bad guy," the Customs and Border Protection official Frank Dixon?
¦ Can we interpret the airport as a microcosm of a modern Western society?
¦ What attracts to Viktor the flight attendant Amelia?
¦ In what respects is Viktor a "noble savage"?
• There are at least two other Eastern Europeans in the film - what is their function in the film's narrative?
• How does the real aim of Viktor's visit position Eastern Europe on the cultural map of the world? Still the West's "Other"? If so, a threatening one?
Attachment:- Discussion.rar