Investigating On The Beach by Nevil Shute

Ms. Peterson's ENGLISH IV HONORS SENIOR EXIT PROJECT

 
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    Your goal with this lesson is to read the book and understand the symbolism in the writing.  You will utilize your creative side and a variety of different ways to express it!  In order to successfully complete this lesson, some computer access will be needed.  If you don't have one at your home, you can always use your local library, a friend, or one of the computer labs at school.

Activities:

“The End Is Near” –

• Halfway through the reading, you will write a 2 page (if hand written) narrative on how you and your family (as well as others around you) would react if what happened in the book became real.
• Turn it into me either typed, or hand written neatly in blue or black ink.
• I will post the best papers up on the wall and the best one will receive extra credit and be submitted to the schools literary magazine!
• Must cite at least two internet sources.
  

Vocabulary Journal-

• For each section of reading you do, try and write down at least five words which appear new to you or that you do not understand. 
• Look up each word you write down and define them.
• At the end of the entire lesson, submit them to me on either a floppy disk, CD, or by e mail.

Class Discussions-

• Throughout the duration of this lesson, you will periodically engage in class-wide discussions of the novel’s themes, culture, and symbolism.  We will usually hold them toward the end of class or even after every chapter as needed.

There will be one big discussion on the 14^th day of this lesson.  This is where your class participation comes in; you are required to add to the conversation twice (for a total of 10 points)- this is part of your final project grade.  Each time thereafter, you earn an extra credit point to add to your exam average.

GROUP PROJECTS!-

• Students, it’s time to unleash your creativity!
• I will place you in groups of four to five (depending on the total number of students), and assign each group a section of the story.
• Your group will come up with the best way possible to teach rest of your class what happened in that part of the book.

-         Creativity and imagination is strongly encouraged!  I will have a few of the school’s camcorders in the room for you to use, if you chose to do a video production.

-         The best section will be picked to be taped (if it is not already) to be aired on the morning announcements, , put up somwhere on the school website, as well as suggested for submission into the literary magazine.

• For three full days, you will be able to work exclusively on this project.  Out of class time is not required, but it is possible.

 
The Final-

• This exam is worth 200 points.  It will consist of 75 multiple choice and true/false questions and two essay questions (which will collectively make up the other 25 missing questions).