Recording project. Literature & Language. Speech Presentation

- ONLY WRITING PART!
(Basic recording image borrowed from Clip Art)
Goal: to speak orally regarding the poems studied in class thus far; to replicate oral performance akin to what a student may do in the future as a teacher or creative artist
This project is connected to the poems read in the three weeks of class so far. Those poems are Thomas Nashe’s “A Litany in Time of The Plague” (16th-century), John Davies’ “The Triumph of Death” Stanza XXIX (17th-Century), Philip Freneau’s “Pestilence” (18th-century), and Christian Rossetti’s “The Plague” (19th-Century)
Length: 10 minutes or so, recorded
Directions: In a reflection, consider the interrelation between 3-4 of the poems listed above. Some of the connections may be on how the plague has spread, or perhaps the way that death is represented, the speaker’s resignation that she or he will die, the form of the poems and use of poetic devices, and more. You need not use the list in the previous sentence. Just try to find connections between the poems regarding the plague and sickness. Compare them in original ways, and quote from the poems while doing so.
Also, read at least 1-2 quoted lines from each poem while making your recording. Explain your logic, using some evidence, in other words.
Note: I want you to be in front of the camera for this project. For my courses, I always incorporate a speaking component. Many of you will be going into roles where speaking is paramount, from teaching to business and everything in between. I want you to begin feeling comfortable in front of the camera.
This speech should be informal and relaxed. I’m rooting for you to do well.
Note: For technology, I recommend using Quick Time Player on your computer. I use this application on my Mac for weekly recordings. You could also use the camera and recording feature on your phone. Upload your response by Sunday, 1 November at 11:59 p.m. CST onto the Moodle assignment feature. Any late assignment submission is deducted one-letter grade per 0-24 hours late.
This project is worth 12% of the course grade. I plan on evaluating the recording not on technical know-how but instead effort put forth, focus on the question, and quality of the response.
For this recording, no “Works Cited” page is needed, and no unapproved outside source should be used; but mention the line numbers for the quoted passages from each author.
Please let me know if a technology issue comes up. I very much recommend that you create a youtube log-in, if you haven’t done so already; then, upload your video there and provide the link on Moodle. Hopefully, any technological issue won’t come up. Quick Time Player used to take two attempts at uploading into Moodle for me but now uploads the first time.
I often use loose, hand-written notes when speaking and recording, and I recommend you do the same. Don’t read verbatim from something you’ve typed up. Everything you say should be in your own voice and from your own original ideas, of course.
(Renaissance painting. Bubonic plague. ca. 1600s. Borrowed from CVLT site).
(Unknown artist. plague painting. ca. 1349. Courtesy of Wiki Commons)
(Book cover. Defoe, Daniel. A Journal of the plague Year.)
(The Masque of Red Death movie poster. 1964. Courtesy of Avay UK.com)
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