Extra Credit Opportunity
Creative Connection
Project (10%)
Make a connection between any reading from this class and your personal expression of it. Your
personal expression may take the form of a short paper if you wish, but it doesn’t have to.
Consider other forms of expression—art, drama, music, media, or any combination that works.
What can you do? Indeed, what can YOU do?
Art: Complete an original drawing, painting, or sculpture. For example, create a portrait of the
Freedom Riders; create a photo collage of the “Letter from Birmingham Jail”; “I Had a Dream”
speech; Montgomery Bus Boycott???
Drama: Perform a monologue from a story or team up with someone else and perform a scene
from the sit-ins or marches; write your own scene to be performed; turn the conversation between MLK and clergy
into a scene; invent a scene (make up your own).
Music: Perform a song or tune, original or not; bring in your guitar or keyboard and play “Buses are Comin’”;
“Abraham, Martin and John”; Society’s Child; create song lyrics for the Freedom Riders; “Emmett Till; Edgar
Medgar Evers; “Letter from Birmingham Jail”; ???
Media: Create a PowerPoint presentation, a mini-documentary, or a commercial. For example, put together a
PowerPoint on Greyhound, Woolworths, pastoral scenery; make a mini-documentary on voting rights; make a
commercial to “win” a weekend in Birmingham, Selma, or Money Mississippi set in the 60s???
Pop Culture: Create a 10-page flip-book, or CD/album jacket, movie poster, cartoon, or
comic. For example, design a movie poster for the Bus Boycott in Montgomery or the
March to Washington, or “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.”
Be The Teacher: Create an exercise for fellow students to do in relation to a poem, story or play. For example,
calculate the distance the protesters marched from Montgomery to Selma—how long it took them; what was their
fate? Create a crossword puzzle for a work???
EXTRA CREDIT PROJECTS DUE
13 APRIL 2015