Great Works - FINAL EXAM EXTRA CREDIT James Madison University

[If you would like to earn 5 points extra credit on the final, here are some additional alternatives beyond the previously announced guest lecture by an Octavia Butler Scholar. The minimum length requirements for each option below 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 no later than with your final exam. REMEMBER: You only get credit for at most 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. Read or re-read an addtional original Grimm Brothers' fairytale or a Hans Christian Anderson fairytale (in translation, of course, but not a Disney-like retelling). Using at least three of the characteristics that seem to you to recur in fairytales and at least one definition of "fairytale" that you find yourself, write a discussion of at least one and a half pages (typed) on 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.




2. OR Watch either the The Postman , based on a science fiction novel with a post-apocalyptic setting by David Brin, the disturbingly dystopic The Handmaid's Tale based on Margaret Atwood's novel of the same name, or the rather unusual cult-classic film The Road. Then write at least a one-page response paper on the film you chose to watch, discussing post-apocalyptic details or dystopic details as they are created in film. (For The Road you could also draw comparisons/contrasts with the book.) All three films will be available on reserve in Carrier Library media resources.




3. OR do an illustration based on one of the three stories we are discussing on the last day of class and write at least a 100-word explanation of the kind of information/interpretation your illustration provides.