English 3906
Presentation Project
Tropes in The Scarlet Letter and The Waste Land
| Sign up for a time to present | 5-minute oral presentation |
| Presentation week is the last week of class Individually or as part of a group | |
Objective
To identify an important trope in either Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter or T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land and explain where it occurs and how it works.
Procedure
Choose one identifiable trope that is in your chosen work.
Take notes on where the trope occurs, how it occurs, how it changes over the course of the work (if it does). Identify the trope in terms of what it is and what it represents. Feel free to use secondary sources. You may build this presentation out of ideas that you discussed in your paper. Students may use visual aids if they wish.
Sign up for a presentation slot some time before Monday, December 5th, 2011.
Grading Standards
Presentations will receive A-F grades based on the following criteria:
Adherence to topic guidelines.
Clarity of the argument about the trope's meaning.
Effective use of examples from the text.
Creativity in interpreting lines from the poem.
2 December 2011