Romeo and Juliet Project Topics



Brave New World Theme Project Topics

Please choose one of the following projects and do a FABULOUS job! There are many different project options, so each of you should find one that will spotlight your unique talents, while also demonstrating your knowledge of the concepts, themes, and cultural/modern connections to Brave New World. Moreover, you will present your work to the class unless you choose to write an essay or take a test, so I will need to know how much time you need to set up. *

Late Work Will Not be Accepted: I will not accept last minute thrown together work either. Put some thought and planning into this project. Know and consider what you are good at and what materials you have access to before choosing a project. Here are your options. If you feel I have left something out or you have another idea, please tell me. I am open to suggestion.

|Show To-Nite! Brave New World’s First Production on Broadway |

|Make a poster advertisement for the upcoming play of Brave New World as well as an accompanying Playbill. The poster should be professional and not hand drawn |

|unless you are a very talented artist. This poster must look professional and display the starring actors you think would be best suited for the roles of the |

|main characters. Once you complete the poster, make a Playbill (research what the entails) that includes your actors and justification for them as the main |

|characters. Include bios, plot, and theme. You should combine words and art to display many aspects of the play and its themes. Be creative! |

|Do |Do not |

|Research professional movie posters |Copy and Paste. |

|Make a professional poster with actors |Steal from what someone else has already made. |

|Include casts, bios, advertisements, etc |Choose this option if you are not artistic or tech savvy. |

|Combine work and art to display the many aspects of the play and its theme. | |

|Be creative! | |

|Cast your play from an already existing group. Which actors/actresses would star | |

|and why. | |

|Social Media Journal: Off the Grid |

|From May 1st-May 15th, you are a journalist on assignment—going off the grid. For the time span of two weeks, you are to not only remove ALL social media |

|(Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snap Chat, etc.) from your phone, but to also cease using it entirely (regardless of the mode of consumption). The only thing you|

|are allowed to do is text or call your friends—but even then, challenge yourself to limit your time. |

|You will purchase or create a journal in which you record your experiences of each day, reflecting on your experiences without social media. How does it make |

|you feel? How much more time do you have without it? What are you learning about yourself, media, and how we use it? |

|Also use the journal to record the normal thoughts you would normally share social media (i.e., use your journal to “post” your experiences and thoughts). |

|Reflect on those thoughts. |

|On your last night, write a one paragraph reflection of what you learned from the experience of going “off the grid,” and how it connects to Brave New World. |

|Do |Do not |

|Be honest—quit all forms of social media |Use social media |

|Reflect daily in your journal—you can include pictures or scraps to further display |Use social media in any context. |

|your thoughts. |Be honest—NO SOCIAL MEDIA. |

|Write detailed entries each day. |Write simple bullets for your daily entries. |

|Want to go further? Leave behind Television as well. | |

|Write a one paragraph reflection within the context of Brave New World. Can social | |

|media and the “happiness” that likes bring us parallel the sedated happiness from | |

|pills in the World State? | |

|Include textual evidence. | |

|The Pen is Mightier than Soma |

|Write an essay (2-3 pages double space MLA) on one of the following topics: 1. Is society progression towards the ideas and concepts of Brave New World? Do some|

|research and support your response with evidence. 2. Ultimately, does the internet help to strengthen connections—or does it make things more surface level? |

|Bring in parallels from the text to support your answer. 3. Do one-to-one devices help or hinder education? What do these devices add to your education? What do|

|they take away? What parallels could you see with these in Brave New World? 4. What rhetorical devices does the World State use to manipulate the public? 5. |

|Should Brave New World be read as a medical text? Analyze the ways in which Huxley relies on medical advancements to emphasize his dystopia. |

|Do |Do not |

|Write an essay with an open or closed thesis, introduction, and conclusion |Choose this if you are not an excellent writer. |

|Focus on your thesis and support it with evidence and research |Understand that every type is minus 1 and every grammatical error is minus 2 up|

|Write in MLA format with integrated quotes |to 50 points. (What you say is 50 points and how you say it is 50 points) |

|Follow all formal writing guidelines. | |

|Life is Serious, but Art is Fun |

|Create a three-dimensional representation or a painting of a theme or lens analysis from Brave New World. Serious artists only! The presentation of this |

|project must include a thoughtful and meaningful explanation of your choice and representation with MLA formatted textual evidence. |

|Do |Do not |

|Choose this if you are artistic. |Choose this if you are not naturally artistic. |

|Write an MLA formatted paragraph supporting your analysis of theme with |Steal what someone else has done but create a new! |

|properly integrated quotes and grammatically correct sentence structure. | |

|If Music be the Food of Love, Play on! (Because Lord knows the World State needs it) |

|Compose an original song inspired by and centered around the Brave New World, and perform it using voice (and instruments if necessary). You will need to turn |

|in sheet music of your original score and a thoughtful and meaningful explanation of your choice with MLA formatted textual evidence. If you don’t want to sing |

|in front of the class, you may simply record yourself. |

|Do |Do not |

|Include original sheet music. |Give a guy a tambourine and call him an equal member. |

|Write an MLA formatted paragraph supporting you analysis of theme with properly|Ask if you can record it-you are going to perform that biz live. |

|integrated quotes and grammatically correct sentence structure. |Choose this unless you are unbelievably musically inclined. |

|Include a group if each group member contributes equally to the creation of and| |

|performance of the composition. | |

|I Wanna be Sedated |

|Create a soundtrack for Brave New World. You must choose one song as the theme song for the entire text. Every chapter must be accompanied by a song which |

|reflects the mood or tone of the action. You will present some of your choices. For each song, you will need two to three sentences connecting the song to a |

|literary element in the scene. Also, create an album or CD cover with your song list on the back. If you have more than one or two songs by the same artist, |

|stop! |

|Do |Do not |

|Include 19 songs-one theme song and one for each chapter. |Just turn in a song list. |

|Have a literary explanation with proper integrated quotes to support each of |Repeat songs. |

|your choices. |Repeat artists more than two times. |

|Choose from a wide range of music genres, types, and voices. |Choose this option if you are not a lover of all types of music. |

|Choose this if you are passionate about all types of music. |Do not copy a list from the internet; if you can find it, so can I. |

|Create a polished and titled album cover that incorporates your theme and theme|Make sure I can listen to any song on your list when asked. |

|song. | |

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|WSN (World State News) 24 |

|You are the speaker of the World State and you are the reporter. Your job is to report on the modern parallels between our current world and that of Brave New |

|World—ultimately, you are reporting on whether you believe we are fulfilling Huxley’s vision juxtaposing evidence from the text. Watch clips of the news to |

|understand what we are looking for. |

|Do |Do not |

|Set up a scene like a news desk |Do this is you are not comfortable with video production |

|Script and film the whole thing |Throw something together last minute. |

|Keep it focused on the text | |

|Dress the part | |

|Be satirical if you can | |

|Submit your script when you show the video | |

|*If you do not want to film the news, another option of this would be to make a| |

|fake news paper | |

|Research various components of a newspaper’s front page and model your product | |

|as such. | |

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|World Controller #11: You |

|The world around you has been ravaged from some catastrophic event, and you have been selected to apply be one of the new World Controllers. In order to secure |

|the job, you must design a society that will meet the basic needs of its members while maintaining order. You must determine what to do with dissidents; how |

|information will be disseminated; how you will keep their citizens in their proper places; what occupation your citizens will have; how citizens' basic needs |

|for food, shelter, clean air and water, medical care, clothing, etc. will be met; and whether or not (and how) you will control the size of the population. You |

|must persuade the committee who selected you that your utopia will work so that your ideas will be implemented and you will be selected for the job. |

|In your presentation, you must also explain how your society will be better—whatever that means to you—than the society in BNW. |

|Do |Do not |

|Have a vivid imagination; you are creating a brand new world. | |

|Have a plan of attack before beginning | |

|Determine how will you present your information | |

|Ask your teacher for the extended version of the assignment, so you can meet | |

|all of the requirements. | |

|Find one other person to work with, if you like. | |

|Before Ford, We Took Tests |

|You will take an old-fashioned, multiple choice test. Questions will include all of the information covered in unit, including but not limited to nonfiction |

|articles, supplemental readings, poetry, background information, and allusions. The test will include AP-style questions. |

|Do |Do not |

|Choose this if you are a skilled test taker. |Choose this if you have not fared well on previous tests this year. |

| |Choose this if there an area that better fits your skills. |

Would you like to create your own project? Please see me for proposal document.

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