1
Mrs. Reif
Project #1 Identify Yourself/Quote Author’s Works to Show and Tell About You
All English Classes
Due: Week of September 7th whenever we meet.
Required: 1-3 quotes (1); 4-6 quotes (2); 7-9 quotes (3); 10-12 quotes (4).
Required: 3 Resources, 1 primary, 2 secondary. All resources must be documented MLA style.
Project Weight: 100 points
Although the presentation is between 3-5 minutes, a pre-plan must be handed in prior to presenting in order to qualify for a grade.
PLAN
Project One:
Welcome to the first major project of the year! This project will help us know who you are through the words of someone else. You
must first decide what makes you tick. You need to consider your family, hobbies, and any other topic you feel makes you what you
are. Remember that your project is helping the class to better understand you.
Once you have selected ideas about how to explain yourself, move on to the fun part. Now you need to begin to research famous
quotes from: short stories, plays, novels, literature books, or poetry books. The major rule is that these quotes must come from
famous writers/authors and the literature on this list:
1. Hugh Henry Brackenridge, Modern Chivalry (1792–1815)
2. Hannah W. Foster, The Coquette (1797)
3. Charles Brockden Brown, Wieland (1798)
4. Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Hope Leslie (1827)
5. James Fenimore Cooper, The Prairie (1827)
6. John Pendleton Kennedy, Swallow Barn (1832)
7. Robert Montgomery Bird, Sheppard Lee (1836)
8. Edgar Allan Poe, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838)
9. Johnson Jones Hooper, Some Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs (1845)
10. George Lippard, The Quaker City, the Monks of Monk Hall (1845)
11. James Fenimore Cooper, The Crater (1847)
12. Herman Melville, Redburn (1849)
13. Ik Marvel (Donald G. Mitchell), Reveries of a Bachelor (1850)
14. Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (1850)
15. Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables (1851)
16. Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or The Whale (1851)
17. Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Blithedale Romance (1852)
18. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)
19. Herman Melville, The Confidence-Man (1857)
20. John W. DeForest, Miss Ravenel’s Conversion (1867)
2
21. Louisa May Alcott, Little Women (1868–1869)
22. Albion Tourgée, A Fool’s Errand (1879)
23. George Washington Cable, The Grandissimes (1880)
24. Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady (1881)
25. Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)
26. Henry James, The Bostonians (1886)
27. Henry James, The Princess Casamassima (1886)
28. Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward: 2000–1887 (1888)
29. Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889)
30. William Dean Howells, A Hazard of New Fortunes (1890)
31. Stephen Crane, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893)
32. Henry Blake Fuller, The Cliff-Dwellers (1893)
33. Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson (1894)
34. Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage (1895)
35. Harold Frederic, The Damnation of Theron Ware (1896)
36. Frank Norris, McTeague (1899)
37. Kate Chopin, The Awakening (1899)
38. Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie (1900)
39. Frank Norris, The Octopus (1901)
40. Henry James, The Wings of the Dove (1902)
41. Owen Wister, The Virginian (1902)
42. Henry James, The Ambassadors (1903)
43. Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth (1905)
44. Willa Cather, O Pioneers! (1913)
45. Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons (1918)
46. Willa Cather, My Ántonia (1918)
47. Sinclair Lewis, Main Street (1920)
3
48. Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence (1920)
49. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925)
50. John Dos Passos, Manhattan Transfer (1925)
51. Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (1926)
52. Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927)
53. Claude McKay, Home to Harlem (1928)
54. Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (1929)
55. William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury (1929)
56. William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying (1930)
57. Willa Cather, Shadows on the Rock (1931)
58. William Faulkner, Light in August (1932)
59. Daniel Fuchs, Summer in Williamsburg (1934)
60. Djuna Barnes, Nightwood (1936)
61. William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! (1936)
62. John Dos Passos, U.S.A. (1930–1936)
63. Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)
64. John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
65. Nathanael West, The Day of the Locust (1939)
66. Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
67. Richard Wright, Native Son (1940)
68. Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940)
69. Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely (1940)
70. James M. Cain, Mildred Pierce (1941)
71. Robert Penn Warren, All the King’s Men (1946)
72. Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead (1948)
73. Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky (1949)
74. Flannery O’Connor, Wise Blood (1952)
4
75. Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (1952)
76. Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March (1953)
77. James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953)
78. Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (1953)
79. William Gaddis, The Recognitions (1955)
80. John Cheever, The Wapshot Chronicle (1957)
81. Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (1958)
82. Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums (1958)
83. John Updike, Rabbit, Run (1960)
84. Walker Percy, The Moviegoer (1961)
85. Joseph Heller, Catch-22 (1961)
86. Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road (1961)
87. Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire (1962)
88. William Faulkner, The Reivers (1962)
89. Peter Matthiessen, At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1965)
90. William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967)
91. Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint (1969)
92. Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye (1970)
93. Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose (1971)
94. Isaac Bashevis Singer, Enemies, A Love Story (1972)
95. Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow (1973)
96. Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon (1977)
97. Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping (1980)
98. William Gibson, Neuromancer (1984)
99. Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian (1985)
100. Don DeLillo, White Noise (1985)
The massive world of literature and writing is at your fingertips to enable you to describe yourself.
You may do research at a library or on the Internet. Please pay close attention to the project guidelines and scoring guide.
5
Project Guidelines:
Please read the scoring guide for this project carefully. The scoring guide has ten categories. You can receive up to 10 points
per category for a maximum of 100 points.
I am not interested in you writing a long report. I would rather you find creative and clever ways to present your findings
though presentation. You need to read or recite by memory to the class the passages or quotes that describe you then
tell us why. I would like for you to be able to explain the "why" without simply reading a report to the class.
Everyone must present his or her project in a 3-5 minute time frame. I would prefer that you do your best to present and not
read the project. I know that some of you will have to read the quotes and passages, but try to present the explanation.
(perhaps anecdotal examples from your life)
Your project grade will be a reflection of how closely you followed the project directions. Any form of creativity you think
would make your project standout, please add. I reward highly for imagination and insightful thinking. Please take note
that the scoring guide includes a category for integrating technology into this project. We will discuss various types of
technology that you may choose to use. I have only listed a few of the ways to be creative. Plan and organize a way for us
to get to know you. The grade you help will be your own.
You will have no class time to work on this project. Everything will be done outside of class. Do not put this project off until the night
before it's due. START NOW!
This project is worth 100 points. Those of you who struggle on exams, this is your chance to give yourself some cushion.
Project #1 is due at the beginning the week of September 7th whenever our class meets. Absent students will present next class
meeting or lose 100 points.
Students will be randomly chosen to present their projects. It may take more than one day to present all projects. Everyone should
be ready to go on the due date. No excuses. If you aren’t ready you score a zero, period.
Project Scoring Guide:
Each presentation will be graded on the following 10 areas. Each category is worth a maximum of 10 points. 100 points total.
Creativity
4-A great deal of creativity and original thinking was used. Music, videos, and pictures were included on the slide.
3-Some original thinking and creativity was used. Pictures were included on the slide
2-Very little creativity or original thinking was used. No music or pictures were included.
1-No originality or creativity was used.
Project Organization
4-The project was organized and functioned smoothly.
3-The project had very few problems with organization or functioning.
2-The project had occasional errors in functioning with technology and audio.
1-The project did not function in a smooth manner
Even Interjection of Information With Transitions
4-The presentation's information was wonderfully balanced and flowed in an exceptionally smooth manner while the
presenter related the quote to an anecdote explaining why it specifically was selected.
3-The presentation's information was balanced but the presenter used the same explanation as to why the quote was selected.
2-The presentation's information was a bit unbalanced and some explanations as to why the quote was selected did not relate
to the presenter.
1-The presentation's information was unclear and unbalanced.
Time Requirements
4-The project met the 3-5 time requirement and used the class time in a most effective manner and wasted no time flowing
from one slide to the next with logical transitions.
3-The project met the 3-5 minute time requirement but no effort at transitions were made from one quote to the next.
2-The project was too short. The project was too long.
1-The project was under half the required length.
Classroom Interaction
4-The presentation clearly interacted with the class.
3-The presentation vaguely interacted the class.
2-Some attempt at classroom interaction was made.
1-No attempt at classroom interaction was made.
Use of Quotes/Works
6
4321-
10-12 quotes and other topic examples were incorporated into the presentation.
7-9 quotes and other topic examples were blended into the presentation.
4-6 quotes and other topic example was used.
1-3 quotes and no outside topic examples were used.
Research
4-The research was flawless and thoroughly supported the project and documented MLA Style on the pre-plan and on the
slides using primary sources of the works themselves and their respective authors.
Go to the <owlpurdue.com> link on my websites to see how to cite quotes from books, poems, novels, and how to cite
pictures, videos, music from websites.
3-The project's research was accurate and on topic and documented MLA Style on only the pre-plan but not the slides.
2-The project contained some information that was inaccurate or inappropriate and documented incorrectly.
1-The project contained many pieces of inaccurate or inappropriate information and was not documented.
Technology
4-The presentation integrated various components of technology to enhance and shape the overall design of the project in a
most effective manner.
3-The presentation used various forms of technology.
2-The presentation used a single piece of technology.
1-The presentation did not use any form of technology other than the PowerPoint format.
Presentation
4-The presentation was organized and incorporated good project knowledge and the presenter is expressive, loud, and clear
using the microphone.
3-The project was fairly organized with fair good knowledge and the presenter was not using a monotone and used the
microphone.
2-The project could not be heard or the project was only read not presented.
1-The entire project was read to the class. The project could not be heard by all.
Visuals
4-The presentation used many artistically creative or computer generated visuals in a project-inspiring manner on each slide.
The fonts were bold and clear and the pictures or videos and music related to the quote.
3-The presentation used a few visuals but no videos to enhance the project and the sont was too small or too light.
2-Visuals were weakly designed or too few visuals were used.
1-No visuals were used.
Point Values for scoring
4 =10 points
3 = 8 points
2 = 6 points
1 = 5 points