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 Posts-
You 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 to condense your thoughts together about a theme in the text. Use this assignment to explore an argument and analyze how/and why the novel 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 this theme. This essay should use V for Vendetta and supplementary research as evidence of this theme. Use ethos, logos, pathos, and any other rhetorical devices in your analysis and argument. Analyze how and why these pieces of evidence support your argument.
When mining V for Vendetta for themes to explore, there are many topics to consider, including:
The Internet and Censorship
Privacy
Police Brutality
Surveillance
Body Cameras
Civil Liberties
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
And More!
Optional Assignment:
Write a rhetorical analysis of a text of your choice, where you explore the message or meaning of the text through the rhetorical strategies the author of the text uses (ethos, pathos, logos).
Note: For the subject of this paper, you may use any of the texts we worked with in class or you can choose a new text. You can use poetry, music/lyrics, paintings, photography, your own work (writing or artwork). A student last semester wrote a rhetorical analysis as a means of gaining understanding of a confusing ad she saw. Another student wrote about the movie Mean Girl’s use of ethos, logos, and pathos and other rhetorical devices.
Manuscript Notes: This essay should be four to six double-spaced pages and calls for MLA documentation
; you must include a “Works Cited” list at the end of your

essay. When you quote key phrases or clauses from your written text(s), you must provide parenthetical documentation.