Herodotus paper – SUPER DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS COMING AT YOU
Herodotus paper – SUPER DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS COMING AT YOU
For this assignment, you will be exercising the parts of your brain that access and create visual imagery. You are asked to take a blank piece of standard 8 ½ x 11-inch piece of unlined paper and make an image or series of images that reacts to Histories excerpt and to produce a short piece of writing that illuminates and explains your work.
- Review the excerpt of the text in full and find a visual image or series of images that really grabs you. Choosing the imagery is a creative act in itself and is a crucial part of your project.
a. Consider choosing a single physical object that plays a crucial role in a passage. What does it reveal about Herodotus and/or the people he is describing?
b. Or maybe you’d like to focus on a piece of poetic imagery or description from the text.
c. Another idea is to pick a theme for your Image sheet, like Animals Mentioned in the Histories, or Oracles and other Magic Stuff,
- Think about and plan how to respond to this imagery with visual content of your own design.
a. Will you make a drawing? Will you seek to illustrate the image in a literal sense, or maybe respond to it in an abstract way?
b. Will your image sheet even contain what we think of as a “drawing,” or will it be something that resembles a diagram? Remember that charts, diagrams, graphs, collages, and other types of infographics are fair game for this. NOTE: Drafting/drawing/illustration ability has nothing to do with a student’s successful completion of this assignment.
- Make multiple versions and drafts of your image/images on different sheets of paper. Set aside real time for this, and spend real time on this. Work and re-work the image in successive drafts until you are really pleased with your Image Sheet.
- Write a two-paragraph Artist’s Statement that explains the connection between your image and the text. Again: take great care in revision and editing, both for content and for errors. Be sure discuss and blend both literary/analytical elements AND your own artistic process.
- Scan or photograph your Image and save the file, usually a JPG, PDF, or PNG.
- Upload your Image and paste in your Artist’s Statement into a discussion post on the Herodotus folder on Canvas.
GRADING CHECKLIST: 5 points each
The student:
- Has successfully uploaded the post on time, and it contains both the scanned-in Image Sheet, and the 2-paragraph Artist’s Statement.
- Gave the post an original title, not just “Herodotus Post” or the student’s name.
- Embedded a viewable Image Sheet and artist’s statement WITHIN the post, rather than attaching the image as a file that can’t be seen.
- Created an Artist’s Statement consisting of two paragraphs that is a sharp, analytical, moderately formal piece of error-free writing that aptly explains the connections between the Herodotus text and the Image Sheet. It blends academic discussion of the text with discussion of artistic process.
- Made sure that the Artist’s Statement text is not part of the Image, and must not obscure the image or be super-imposed over the image in any way.
- Incorporates COLOR as a significant element in the Image.
- Has taken the photography/scanning process seriously for the Image, and has avoided uploading a dim, poorly-framed, badly cropped, or otherwise unattractive digital representation of the Image.
- Clearly spent an impressive, prodigious amount of time on this project.
- Uses the Image, not just the Artist’s Statement, to demonstrate a knowledge of the text that is truly comprehensive and specific, almost but not quite to the point of being obsessive.
- Is innocent of intellectual laziness and has proven this by avoiding the most obvious, typical, and shallow choices a student might make. There is a clear effort to push past the obvious into something that is deeper and a great deal more fun than the kind of student work that’s easily predictable.
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