Great Works - FINAL EXAM EXTRA CREDIT James Madison University

[If you would like to earn 5 points extra credit on the final, here are the options. The minimum length requirements for each option are based on typed, doublespaced, Times New Roman 12-point font. If your work is submitted in some other format (eg., not typed), you should adjust accordingly. You may turn in your extra credit any time up to the time of your final exam. REMEMBER: You only get credit for one extra credit assignment on the final, so don't bother doing more unless it's for fun. :) Assignments that are not adequately completed may get only partial credit.]

1. If The Kin of Ata are Waiting for You didn't represent your idea of a utopic society, you can chose to write a two page discussion of your own idea of a utopia.




2. OR Read or re-read an original Grimm Brothers' fairytale (in translation, of course). Using at least three of the characteristics of fairytales developed in class and at least one definition of "fairytale" that you find yourself, write a one and a half to two page discussion (typed) of the extent to which the story you read qualifies as a fairytale. Make sure to discuss specific elements in the story and to include a citation for the "fairytale" definition you find.




3. OR Watch the full online version of the 1995 Showtime movie Harrison Bergeron at this website: movie link. Then, write a one to two page response paper (typed) discussing the ways in which the society in the film is and is not like the dystopia in Kurt Vonnegut's original story by that name.