Hound of the Baskervilles
Final Projects

Below is a list of projects from which you can choose.
You only have to do one but are more than welcome to do a couple, if the spirit moves you.
The due date is your choice
– December 20th, if you want it to count towards your 2nd Quarter Grade
– Or January 9th, if you want it to count towards your 3rd Quarter Grade

  1. Conduct research on a famous myth and write an essay that compares and contrasts the myth of the hound with the myth you research.
  2. Essay should have four parts
  3. Introduction that defines myth and discusses the importance and power of societal myths
  4. A summary of the myth you researched
  5. Similarities and Differences between the hound and your myth
  6. Your opinion of myths that answers these questions
  7. Are they important?
  8. Are they dangerous?
  9. Why do humans choose to believe or not believe myths?
  10. Length requirement is “however many pages it takes you to adequately address the four parts.
  11. All sources must be parenthetically cited
  12. Adapt a scene, sequence, or chapter into a screenplay, act it out, and film it.
  13. Adapt a part of the novel into a screenplay
  14. Film a professional scene
  15. Attempt some costumes
  16. Choose your shooting locations to be as close to Middle Earth as possible
  17. Make the camera work dynamic – no static shots
  18. Edit the scene together
  19. Put opening titles, end credits, and some music over the film
  20. Post it (privately) to YouTube or Vimeo
  21. Screen it for the class.
  22. Paint, sketch, draw, sculpt or otherwise create a piece of art that pertains to HotB.
  23. It can be of a landscape or specific place in London, Devonshire, or the moor
  24. It can be of a particular scene
  25. Paintings, sketches, drawings, etc., should be sizable. Larger than 11 x 13.
  26. Sculptures should be large enough to take up the better part of a school desk.
  27. Adapt a sequence from the novel into a graphic novel.
  28. Choose a sequence from the book you’d like to illustrate
  29. Separate the sequence into 8-10 panels (comic boxes)
  30. Include artwork, speech bubbles, thought bubbles, onamonapia (Sound words like BANG, CRASH, ZING)
  31. Ink (trace all edges with a fine-tipped sharpie) the panels and illustrations
  32. Color your illustrations.
  33. Mount them on a piece of posterboard OR bind them together
  34. Research historic people whom inspired fictional characters
  35. Research Joseph Bell, the inspiration for Sherlock
  36. Give a short biography
  37. Compare and contrast Bell and Holmes
  38. Choose another fictional character inspired by an actual living person and research that person (it should be a character with which you are familiar)
  39. Give a short biography
  40. Compare and contrast the character and the person
  41. Choose a person in your life who would make a fantastic character in a novel
  42. Describe the real person
  43. Invent a character inspired by the real person
  44. Create a character sketch of them
  45. Write a short bio of the character you create