English 10: Fourth Quarter Extra Credit Opportunity

ALL SUBMISSIONS DUE AT THE BEGINNING OF YOUR CLASS PERIOD MONDAY, 6/3

OPTION ONE (Max 3 points, 4 people eligible): FILM

Instructions: Creatively depict the scene as accurately as possible on film for a potential three points on your final grade.

Rules:

  1. Only four people may earn credit for each individual video.
  2. Only those who appear on film will earn credit.
  3. All dialogue and action must be exact. Avoid obvious script use.
  4. Any disrespectful, inappropriate, or disruptive submissions will be immediately thrown-out (i.e. use your brain and don’t be stupid).
  5. Videos may be submitted via YouTube, DVD, or memory stick.

Scenes:

  1. Read and create a film of the entirety of Saki’s short story “The Open Door.” You’ll find it in the textbook. All dialogue must be present. How much narration is used should be up to you.
  2. Film a trailer (preview) for a Hound of the Baskervilles movie. You know what movie trailers are like—typically about a minute to two minutes long, lots of dramatic music, a guy doing a very serious voiceover, etc. Extra good job if you can shift the novel’s genre to something it is not (e.g. family comedy, romantic drama, etc.).

OPTION TWO (Max 3 points, 2 people eligible): ART

Instructions: Create a fake Facebook page for one of the characters from The Hound of the Baskervilles. It should look like a profile page, complete with image of the person (drawn, printed, whatever), likes, dislikes, hobbies, age, etc.

There is a template for what I’m looking for at It has all the formats you could want (Word, PDF, etc.).

The catch is I want yours to be LARGE (like, no smaller than half a sheet of poster or foam board). Do NOT hand me a print-out or a sheet of paper. It must be large enough to read on a wall and the lettering must look typed. A good rule of thumb is that it should look like what it would appear as on a computer screen.

OPTION THREE (Max 4 points, 1 people eligible): RECITATION

Instructions: Memorize and recite “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death” by Yeats and “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” by Thomas. Minus one point for each mistake (I’ll give you the first one free) until down to zero points (at which point you are stopped and receive nothing). Lack of emotion, feeling, and understanding will also hurt score.