PERSEPOLIS PROJECT DUE ON TUESDAY!!
As a reminder, here's the project sheet for Persepolis.
Name__________________________________________________________________________________________
Graphic Novels & Anime
Persepolis Project
Options for Persepolis Project
This is worth a TEST grade. Select one of the following project options. This will be due on Friday, May 20th in class. If you have any questions, email me at [email protected].
1. Being Marjane Satrapi: Write your own graphic novel! This is the one that I hope a lot of you are brave enough to do! Marjane Satrapi wrote a graphic novel about her childhood. It is humorous, dramatic, and imaginative, and divided into short 8-10 page chapters (with titles). Your job is to write your own graphic novel chapter about your own childhood. You may imitate Satrapi’s style or create your own. Artistic talent does not count, but I do not want stick figures. Caption quality does count. You will include a title for your chapter, and use elements of the graphic novel that we have studied. Lastly, you must include a brief ‘Statement of Intent’ that explains the choices you made while creating your graphic novel – use graphic novel vocabulary. This should be 5-7 pages long.
Storybird.com www.pixton.com 2. Rewriting Persepolis For this assignment, you will take a chapter of Persepolis and re-write it in ‘regular’, non-graphic prose. Remember, you cannot just write what everyone says, but also describe everything in the pictures. It might take several pages to capture all the meaning! Afterwards, write a few paragraphs about what you noticed while re-writing Persepolis – what were the advantages and disadvantages of writing it out versus viewing the pictures as well as the words? This should be at least 3 typed pages long. 3. Persepolis graphic analysis Choose five pages of Persepolis from which to analyze all the choices Satrapi makes in those pages. Using graphic novel vocabulary, analyze each of the panels within your chosen pages for the meanings and themes that Satrapi is attempting to express. This project should be at least 3 typed pages of analysis, with copies of the pages you analyze attached and text-marked.
4. Persepolis film analysis Choose five scenes of Persepolis from which to analyze all the choices the filmmaker makes in those pages. Analyze each of the scenes for the meanings and themes that both the filmmakers and Satrapi is attempting to express. This project should be at least 3 typed pages of analysis, with summaries of each of the scenes you are discussing.