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This semester we will be reading French literature from the 16th century to the present day. With each century, new authors are born who bring forth innovative ideas, stories, and narrative novelties never seen before. However, narrative texts are not just stories created by an artist’s imagination. Stories can be influenced by history, art, culture, gastronomy, war, philosophies, revolution and evolution. Through our various books and selected films, we will discover what French literature is all about.
We will be working collaboratively on a project as a class via internet. This is a tool that allows us to create a sort of portfolio not only about the books we will be reading but also a way for us to weave French literature together with the history of the country.
In each wiki entry, you must have (at the very least):
- a bibliography of the author
- a short historical background situating the text
Extra features can include you tube clips, pictures, articles, links to official sites, etc…be creative! The more creative we get, the cooler our wiki will look! However, we need to reference our findings correctly which we will learn together. And we must use copyright free sources such as: stock.xchng , creative commons and Zoomr. For pictures, Andrew Ferguson’s blog post: How To Find Great Photos for Your Blog is great!
How will you be graded? I’m looking at the overall organization, clarity, effectiveness, and presentation of your wiki. This includes spelling and grammar. The great thing about wikis is that as registers users, we can log-in, work together, add/change/correct each other anytime!
Your wiki work counts for 10% of your final grade.
