This final performance task comprises 15% of your final grade in the course; ensure that you have earned it!

Select one of the texts studied in class this year (To Kill A Mockingbird, Twelfth Night, or your Book Club novel) that you wish to use for the basis of this final performance task. Your final performance task will consist of ALL of the following components:

3-4 minute presentation, memorized (stay within this specified time allotment)

A written script of exactly what you plan to say in your presentation

1 media product

Select ONE of the following options for the final performance task:

  • A Dragons’ Den Pitch: Imagine that you are a contestant on the newest season of Dragons’ Den Canada, and deliver your prepared information in-role as a producer or director.Keep in mind that you are trying to sell your idea of turning your chosen text into a movie. Your presentation is your actual pitch to the ‘dragons’, therefore your required media product should be something to promote your movie – i.e. a film trailer, a movie poster, a storyboard for a teaser scene from the new films, etc. In your presentation you should discuss the following information: why a film version of this text should be made?, the target audience (why certain people would want to see this film?), the proposed budget, the media/advertising campaign, casting (actors involved), ideas surrounding special effects, setting (locations for filming), and costuming, and any proposed changes between the original text and the new film version (why should these changes be made?).
  • A Poem/Song Pitch:Choose a poem or a song that makes a strong connection to one of the texts you read this year, and convince the class of this connection in a formal presentation. Create a media product that illustrates the connection between the poem/song and your chosen text – i.e. a visual representation of a thematic connection such as a painting, an abstract drawing, a sculpture, a diorama, a slideshow of relevant images to the song, etc. In your presentation you should discuss the following information: explain the deeper meaning behind your chosen poem/song, explain the interesting thematic connection between your poem/song and your chosen course text, pull direct lines from the poem/song and thoughtfully compare them to direct quotations from your chosen course text, and pull out relevant images/pieces of figurative language from your chosen poem/song that you feel appropriately connect to the course text.
  • A Literary Magazine Pitch: Imagine that you are a literary magazine editor working during the time that your chosen text was published, and deliver your prepared information in-role as this magazine editor from this time. In your presentation, convince your boss (your audience) to publish your proposed articles for the magazine. Based on your chosen text, you will write and presenttwo written pieces for the magazine that connect to the plot, characters, setting, etc. – i.e. a news report based on an event from your book, a gossip column based on character relationships, an interview with a specific character, etc. Tip: imagine that the events in your text are real-life events that actually happened in the time period. In your presentation you should discuss the following information: share your two proposed articles, identify your target audience, anddiscuss why readers would be interested in this news. For this option, yourmedia product is a magazine cover or magazine mock-up.
  • A Book Proposal Pitch:Imagine that you are an author proposing an idea for a new bookto a major book publisher (you are proposing either a prequel or a sequel to your selected course text), and you are expected to deliver your prepared information in-role. In your presentation you should discuss the following information: your vision for how this new book will answer/follow-up the ideas from the original book, why this book will be a success, who the target audience will be, share a sample of writing from the new book (an excerpt), and address why this new book deserves the publisher’s financial investment. For this option, your media product is a book cover.