PROJECT TEXT-V for Vendetta
Rhetoric of Text
Project Text asks that you interpret a major text through close reading and
research. Our “text” is V for Vendetta. We’ll approach this text through a
number of critical sources, classroom discussions and activities,
documentaries, and individual student essays.
Project Text Requirements
Critical reading of V for Vendetta and supplementary readings
Weekly Moodle Posts
Essay Proposal
Annotated bibliography of three texts (not included in class)
Individual essays (@4-6 Pages)
Weekly Moodle PostsYou are required to post on Moodle almost every week. Your post should
use academic language and quotes from the text as sources. I suggest using
these Moodle Posts as a place to explore some of the themes you see as
you burrow into the text.
Proposal- You should write a paragraph that proposes the ideas you
will be grappling with in Essay 2. Obviously you can change your
mind on your subject later, but use the assignment is to condense
your thoughts together about the theme in the text and begin to argue
about how the text provides evidence of said theme.
Annotated bibliography of three texts (not included from class)- You need
to do some outside research for this essay. We will be going to the Library
and a Librarian will help us hone our research skills. With these skills, you
must find three academic sources to support your Proposal/Essay’s overall
argument.
Essay 2-Rhetoric of Text (@4-6 Pages)
For this essay, you are required to use V for Vendetta and our
supplementary texts as idea generators for argumentative topics.
What does this mean? In particular, you should find a theme from
within the text and write an essay that argues something about the
theme and it uses V for Vendetta as evidence of this theme.
When mining V for Vendetta for themes to explore, there are many
topics to consider, including:
The Internet and Censorship
Privacy
Piracy/The Pirates Bay
Controlling Information Through Controlling the Internet
Government Control/ Police States
The Anonymous Movement
The Removal of Civil Liberties
Freedom of Information