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“In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death.” Anne Frank

Anne Frank, as we have recently learned, was a remarkable young woman who faced inconceivable suffering, but somehow through it all managed to maintain a positive outlook on human nature. She was a beautiful, mature, powerful force in the world and her memory should live on for years to come. Despite all the anguish and misery we face in the world Anne still gives us hope.

Your assignment is to share her message of hope with as many people as possible in one of the following two ways:

Design and create a memorial to Anne Frank and the victims of the Holocaust

A memorial is something designed to preserve the memory of a person, or event. You will design and create either a model or blueprint/layout of a monument. This memorial can use multi-media. If you want to have flat screens projecting a movie, or speakers playing a song, you can. You simply must explain these features in your design plan, and insert them into your model or blueprint.

Design and create a commercial or short film spreading Anne’s hopeful message of peace.

This must be done on iMovie or a Mac friendly platform. I will not accept this excuse, “I did this at home and it won’t play on a Mac. Either create it on iMovie or talk with Ms. C or myself about how to make sure that a Windows Media Player application can be converter to play on a Mac.

No matter which project you choose, you must turn in a write up describing various aspects of your project along with the actual product. Remember that the process is just as important if not more so than the product.

For either project you must answer the following questions:

• How are symbols, images, and sounds and other conventions used in visual media?
• What are the ways in which image-makers carefully construct meaning?
• How are techniques used in visual media to influence or appeal to a particular audience?

The project must include a write-up that includes a description and reasons for why you used the symbols, images, and sounds, which you used. You must acknowledge the following concerns in your write-up:

• Knowledge-Describe the symbols, images, and sounds you used to complete your project
• Comprehension- Discuss how these symbols, images, and sounds carefully construct meaning
• Application- Explain how these symbols, images, and sounds will influence or appeal to your audience.Illustrate the symbols, images, and sounds (This will be done when you actually do the project)
• Analysis- compare the symbols, images, and sounds you chose. Which are the most powerful? Why?
• Synthesis- Create or design a memorial to Anne Frank and the victims of the Holocaust, or Design and create a commercial or short film spreading Anne’s hopeful message of peace. (Doing the project will accomplish this aspect of Bloom’s Taxonomy)
• Evaluation- Summarize and grade the final product and the process to accomplish this task

Completing this task will involve the use of many ESLRs. You thought I forget about them didn’t you. Well, I didn’t! Your write up should also include a paragraph or two about how your group used the ESLRs. I was going to list all the ESLRs that you might come acrosse, but the list was too long. You could conceivably use every single one. So I will leave it up to you to identify which ones you used and give examples. I will give you some advice; if you want to be successful in this project please pay close attention to the Effective Communicator ESLR and these bullet points:

• Demonstrate their creative talents to convey ideas
• Incorporate/Utilize technology as a tool for communication
• Listen respectfully and ask questions to facilitate understanding and achieve insight
• Demonstrate the skills of effective collaboration
• Collaborate with others in appropriate learning situations to achieve group goals
• Understand and convey written, oral and visual information using appropriate media
• Demonstrate awareness of the role of audience

The key to this project is collaboration. So please also include a paragraph or two about who did what, and how effectively they were at ompleting their assigned tasks.

You will grade yourself on this project, and if you are honest with your evaluation, I will give you the grade you give yourself. However, if you are being to harsh or too easy, I will alter the grade.Click on this checklist to see the things you must do, and here is the rubric. Please print these forms and bring them to the next class for further clarification. They will help you organize each member’s responsibilties and understand the things you all must do.

Good luck! I hope to display these projects somewhere on campus, and we will work on posting the commercials onto our blogs, so do not take pictures or video of yourself. If you are creating the memorial you must also bring in pictures of the final product. I will explain this assignment further in class, so please wait to ask questions until then!

Due dates:

Block H – December 18th
Block C and D- December 19th

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