8th Grade: Tonight, you should make sure that your journal entries for each chapter (or your recycles for the previous chapters) are completed. Make sure you turn your journals in next class so that you can get a grade for your work! Also, the final assignment for The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is posted below this. The assignment is due next Tuesday and will most likely be on the second quarter's grades.
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Choose one
assignment from Column A and one from Column B
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Create
a “found poem” using lines and phrases from the novel that resonate about its
ideas and themes. First, go through
the novel and make note of words, phrases, and sentences that might work with
your poem. Then, arrange those lines
into a free verse poem. Write a final
copy of the poem and make it pretty!
Don’t forget a title! Your poem
must be at least a page long (if you mostly use single words), or ¾ a page
(if you use longer lines).
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Write
an essay that answers the question, “are all people both good and evil?” You might say that everyone is a little of
both, everyone is both but one is stronger, everyone is all good, or everyone
is all bad. Use the novel as evidence
for either side, making sure to explain your thoughts completely.
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Draw
a portrait of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde that shows how they are the same
person. Your portrait should be drawn
on white paper and then either colored or shaded to show features. You are not drawing two different faces,
but two merged together into one person.
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Write
an essay on the topic of scientific advancements. This may require some outside
research. What is “too far” when it
comes to science? Think about modern
advancements, such as cloning and genetic manipulation, artificial
intelligence, organ transplants, and cryogenics. Use the novel as potential evidence for
your viewpoints.
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Develop
a conversation (a dialogue) that might take place between Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde, if they were two separate people.
What would each ask the other and how would each respond? Think about the two different viewpoints
and their personalities.
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Write
an essay that celebrates or criticizes the novella. What are its strengths and weaknesses? Where does the novella succeed? Where is there something left to be
desired? Think about the presentations
of themes, characters, symbols, setting, plot construction, and point of
view.
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Develop
an original piece of art that showcases the novella. In other words, how might the themes, plot,
setting, etc. be shown in an artistic way?
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Write
an essay about the point of view of this novel. Most of the novel is told from a third
person limited point of view – we follow Mr. Utterson, but we don’t see his
thoughts. What is the effect on the
reader of not knowing what is going on from Dr. Jekyll’s point of view (and
never really from Mr. Hyde’s) until the end of the novel?
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