American+Modernism+Project

toc Using the Literature Book and additional credible, authoritative sources (no dictionary, encyclopedia, wikipedia-type sites, or spark-note/e-note-type sites), define all Aspects of American Modernism. Everyone is required to post the Aspects of American Modernism page. Each student will sign up to analyze __one short story__ and __one poem__ and will choose __one additional work__ to analyze. Students will post their essay assignments and video assignments to the wiki page corresponding to the work of literature they are analyzing.
 * Project Expectations of American Modernism Project**

__All work on the wiki is due no later than 3:04 p.m. on May 3, 2010.__

Failure to use citations, using citations incorrectly, or claiming another’s work as one’s own is //plagiarism and will result in a zero grade//.

//Reports that are missing components or not formatted properly will not be scored.// Be sure to complete all components of the assignment. Late or incomplete reports will not be accepted. The project is worth 200 points in the Report category with the following breakdown:
 * Scoring**

Using Classroom time - up to 25 points (points will be logged each class period) Posting to the Aspects of American Modernism page - up to 25 points Essays: Each essay (3 essays) - up to 20 points (Rubric) = 60 possible Each video presentation (3 videos) - up to 20 points = 60 possible Post honest, helpful, and respectful criticisms on the Discussions Tab of each Modernism Works page - up to 30 points

The Following assignment will be on each page created for the work of literature:

Create a video presentation summarizing your report on each author and embed it into the page

//D////elete this text and replace it with your embed code for your video// //- be sure to use MLA parenthetical citations and place your Works Cited list at the bottom of the page//

Write an essay discussing the following points:
 * 1) Thoroughly show how the work of literature fits the definition of Modernism.
 * 2) Show how the writer’s life affected his/her work.
 * 3) Show how the work compares in style, character, theme, etc. to other works by the author __and__ to your other assigned work.

//D////elete this text and replace it with your answer// //- be sure to use MLA parenthetical citations and place your Works Cited list at the bottom of the page//

**Modernism Project**
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Amy Lowell
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Angelina Weld Grimke
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Arna Bontemps
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Carl Sandburg
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Claude McKay
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Countee Cullen
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Dorothy Parker
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e e cummings
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Ezra Pound
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H.D.
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Hart Crane
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Ishmael Reed
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James Weldon Johnson
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John Crowe Ransom
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Langston Hughes
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Louise Bogan
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Marianne Moore
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Mark Strand
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Randall Jarrell
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Robinson Jeffers
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T.S. Eliot
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Wallace Stevens
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William Carlos Williams
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Anzia Yezierska
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Bernard Malamud
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E.B. White
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Elie Wiesel
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Ernest Hemingway
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Eudora Welty
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Flannery O’Connor
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James Baldwin
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James Thurber
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John Hersey
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John Steinbeck
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Katherine Anne Porter
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Richard Wright
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Sherwood Anderson
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Thomas Wolfe
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William Faulkner
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Zora Neale Hurston
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