Paired Sophomore Project: Students will choose an artistic selection to present to the class. You may choose from those listed below or you may find your own. Selections may come from the school library or the public library or other sources, but should be cleared through Mr. Shaw and/or Ms. Effinger. Students should conduct their own research, rehearsals, and arrange for any props needed in the presentation (overhead projector, transparencies, cassette tape and player, etc.)

Fiction (Specific Readings): F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby, beginning of Chapter 3; Ernest Hemingway - "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," first few pages; John Dos Passos - The Big Money, Newsreel LIV; William Faulkner - As I Lay Dying, the first three pages of the chapter titled "Mosely"; Sinclair Lewis - Babbitt, Chapter 6, Part III.

Fiction (Unassigned Readings): Rudolph Fisher, Zora Neale Hurston, James Weldon Johnson, Jean Toomer, Claude McKay, Arna Bontemps.

Poetry: Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, e e cummings, T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Archibald MacLeish.

Art: Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keeffe, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Aaron Douglas.

Photography: Edward Steichen or Ansel Adams.

Music: Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, George Gershwin, Jelly Roll Morton, Fats Waller, Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, Paul Robeson, Ethel Waters, Roland Hayes.

Performance: Florence Mills or Josephine Baker.

1. Each project will include at least a two-page written report of the presentation and a bibliography with at least three sources.
   
2. Presentations should be limited to a few incredibly organized and well-rehearsed minutes.
   
3. Each presentation should include a brief biographical sketch.
   
4. Each presentation must explain how the times (the 1920s and/or the 1930s) are reflected/expressed in the work.
   

In FICTION, do not spend all of your time reading to the class. You should select quotes that will relate how the artist reflected a feeling of alienation from American society of the 1920s and/or the 1930s.

In POETRY, if the work is not too long, it should be read to the class.

In ART and PHOTOGRAPHY, your presention must include a copy of the work to be discussed. This copy must be of a size that all students can view it at one time, or it may be on an overhead sheet.

In MUSIC, listening is a must. A tape, CD, or a "soundie" music video should be part of the presentation.

In PERFORMANCE, some vivid description or visual example should be provided.