Task

=**Task**=

The task for you is to investigate the influence and development of the modernist movement by analysing various texts, films and/or other mediums, showcasing their progression in literary genres. In your investigation, you may also refer to other literary movements in comparison to modernism and develop your ideas by evaluating the similarities and differences. Ultimately, you must show how they complement each other in order to further your understanding of modernism. Other literary movements you may want to compare with include: Romanticism, Minimalism, Renaissance Literature and The Enlightenment. Alternatively, you may also want to develop your ideas through the course of the modernist movement itself and its evolution through Post-Modernism and Late Modernity.

Overall, through analysing these various movements in comparison to Modernism, you must make your own judgments on the level of influence and how its diversity of texts has impacted contemporary literature.

In this task you will be working in groups of three and each of you will need to analyse a various texts and do your own research in order to come to a collective conclusion. Each student must contribute to the group's findings. In class you will need to hand in a written component and present it in a nine minute presentation stating your arguments and supporting it with appropriate evidence including close readings of a range of texts in the modernist movement. We also encourage you, in your research, to use secondary sources to assist you with your ideas. This will also involve you to make sure you provide correct referencing and give credit where it is due. As a whole, you will be marked fifty percent as a group and fifty percent individually meaning that you all need to get involved especially in the presentation as each student should speak for three minutes minimum. In this presentation you will need to use prezi as a tool to aid you in providing the audience with a visual as well as oral interpretation of your information.

Remember to consider your audience (fellow students) when planning and presenting.

Written Component Due: 23rd May 2011 Presentations will occur throughout that week.

Written and Edited by: Ed Russell, Joseph Schwarzkopf and Kirc Planes