Mythology

Creative Project Guidelines

Your creative project can be anything which uses the material of this course in a creative way. It can be turned in at any point in the term, but must be to me by April 27. It can be oriented toward performance and presented in class, or written (drawn, whatever) and turned in to me. If you clear it with me several of you may work on a project together. This project is meant to be equivalent to the effort of a 3-5 page paper--you're just using a different part of your brain to do it.

You may ask for your creative project to be counted as half of your class participation grade. Whether or not you want it counted, you have to complete it to pass the course.

Some suggestions:

• Visual art, music, poetry, videos representing a scene/idea from mythology
• Stories / One act plays / Songs / etc. which are adaptations of myths or which carry out themes of myths
• A dream notebook which discusses your dreams and their mythic elements
• Anything else you can think of
• Mythological food for the presentation day (April 27).

Format

Include an explanation (1 paragraph to 1 page) of your project and its significance. For example, if you make a version of Thor's hammer, don't just hand it to me and say "This is Thor's hammer." Give me a description of what aspects of Thor's hammer you have tried to capture here, and why you made it as you did, etc. If the technique or research involved in making your project isn't immediately obvious from how good it looks, then let me know what went into it. For food-oriented projects, the explanation (an accompanying myth or discussion of food rituals etc.) is particularly important since I want to grade your mythological creativity, not just how good a cook you are.