Monday, May 3, 2010

Visual Storytelling!

Capulet Finds Juliet Dead (Act IV, scene 5) by John Opie

Imagine that you have created some sort of visual IMAGE to represent a MOMENT in the action/plot of one of the pieces of literature we have studied this year. Describe your image and how it communicates this moment. Describe why you make the choices you do in creation of this image. (Please be sure to focus on a MOMENT, not on the story as a whole!)

Your image can take any form. It could be a painting or drawing, a collage or sculpture or could be something created digitally using software like photoshop. Try to imagine something that you could reasonably execute. (In other words, creating a billboard might not qualify, since it would be too hard to actually get done. Yes, we are going to try to follow through on these projects! Don't worry. We will take several weeks on this and use some class time if necessary.)

As a reminder, here are some of the stories and plays you may wish to choose your MOMENT from.

"The Signalman" by Charles Dickens
"How It Happened" by Arthur Conan Doyle
"There Will Come Soft Rain" by Ray Bradbury
"Meteor" by John Wyndham
"On Her Knees" by Tim Winton
"Secrets" by Bernard MacLaverty
"The Taste of Watermelon" by Bordon Deal
"The Lemon Orchard" by Alex La Guma
"The Third and Final Continent" by Jhumpa Lahiri
"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare