All Quiet on the Western Front
Rubric for a Video Essay
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The steps are listed below:
Scene One: Introduce All Quiet on the Western Front.
• Open with a scene from All Quiet on the Western Front with a 30 second narration of an excerpt from All Quiet on the Western Front. (30 seconds)
Scene Two: Summary of All Quiet on the Western Front.
• Narrate (or video) a brief summary of All Quiet on the Western Front. (1 minute: 200 words is about a minute)
Scene Three: Your Personal NarrativeEssay
• Tell your personal story about your experience studying "All Quiet on the Western Front" and discussing the novel in class. Be sure to touch on how your thoughts evolved and even perhaps changed as we dug deeper into the book and you thought “deeper” and more thoughtfully about the reality of war. This is a good place to steal some of your reading responses from All Quiet on the Western Front. (5-7 minutes or 500-700 words).
Scene Four: Analysis of All Quiet on the Western Front.
Scene Five: The Takeaways.
Scene Six: The Conclusion.
• Give your viewer some final thoughts to ponder—and maybe even end with an excerpt from All Quiet on the Western Front. (1 minute)
DUE: Wednesday, May 19th
- write the script and record each step in separate Garageband band recordings
- collect video clips and images to include in your video
- create the video
- share on your blog
Scene One: Introduce All Quiet on the Western Front.
• Open with a scene from All Quiet on the Western Front with a 30 second narration of an excerpt from All Quiet on the Western Front. (30 seconds)
Scene Two: Summary of All Quiet on the Western Front.
• Narrate (or video) a brief summary of All Quiet on the Western Front. (1 minute: 200 words is about a minute)
Scene Three: Your Personal NarrativeEssay
• Tell your personal story about your experience studying "All Quiet on the Western Front" and discussing the novel in class. Be sure to touch on how your thoughts evolved and even perhaps changed as we dug deeper into the book and you thought “deeper” and more thoughtfully about the reality of war. This is a good place to steal some of your reading responses from All Quiet on the Western Front. (5-7 minutes or 500-700 words).
Scene Four: Analysis of All Quiet on the Western Front.
- Weave in at least two analysis paragraphs (you may use analysis you have already written!), but rework them slightly to reflect your narrative voice: (3-5 minutes)
Scene Five: The Takeaways.
- How are Remarques’s ideas still valid today? What are the takeaways you got from this experience? (1-2 minutes)
Scene Six: The Conclusion.
• Give your viewer some final thoughts to ponder—and maybe even end with an excerpt from All Quiet on the Western Front. (1 minute)
DUE: Wednesday, May 19th
8th Grade Reflection
We read The Odyssey not because it is a good story, but because it shows that life is livable and that greatness is alway possible. Your 8th grade reflection wants to mirror the heroic journey of Telemachus and Odysseus who overcame the difficulties of life by accepting the challenges put to them, who found ways "through" the problems of life, and who were rewarded with a greater and more profound life. It is essentially a narrative essay (and we have rubrics for this) that attempts to follow the heroic cycle (and we have a rubric for that!) which all great stories tend to do by default.
DUE: Before the exam period!
DUE: Before the exam period!