Torrey Pines High SchoolMr. Martin's English 12 Romantic Literature Unit |
A Romantic Circles High School Curriculum Module |
In the Schoolhouse Library of the Villa Diodati you will find a link called Ozymandias, a MOO-based interpretation of Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem of the same name. For this unit's final project, you will work collaboratively with other students (including students from other classes) to produce a similar MOO-based interpretation of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere."
A Mariner room has been placed in your teacher's classroom in the MOO and in the Schoolhouse Library. This room contains a series of seven sub-rooms, each of which is devoted to one of the seven sections of Coleridge's poem. If you look at these rooms, you will find that each already contains two objects just like the ones found in the Ozymandias model: a Questions object and a link to the section of the poem that the room interprets.
In Assignment 4 of this unit you will be asked to pick the section of the poem on which you want to work and to generate three critical questions that are raised by that section. For example, the Ozymandias Questions address issues concerning the speaker of the poem, the importance of key symbols and spaces in the poem, the poem's political agenda, and the importance of the poem's form. Use these questions as a guide when formulating your own. Once you have formulated your questions, you will work in groups with other students both in-class and on-line in the Villa Diodati to pick the best student-generated questions about your section of the poem. These questions will be posted by your teacher to the Questions object of your section's room.
Once the critical questions for each room have been posted, it will be time for you to start imagining your own MOO objects that provide answers to the questions. Assignment 8 of the unit asks you to start doing so and to provide written descriptions of the objects that you imagine. After completing this assignment, you will be given several days of class time to work in the computer lab to turn what you have imagined into actual MOO objects and place them in the MOO.On the last day of this unit, you will participate in a Literature Fair, during which you will be required to login to the Villa Diodati and wait in your room along with the other students who constructed objects for that room. At this time students from several High Schools and universities along with several university professors, including the General Editors of Romantic Circles, will tour the rooms that you have constructed and ask you questions about them. You should be prepared to speak intelligently about the objects that you have built and to explain how they answer the room's Questions
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