Project Ideas

Some students have jumped right into topics they've clearly been waiting to explore, while others are circling the water, poking their toes in and seeing how a particular topic feels to them. Still others are having a hard time getting started at all. Below is a list of some of the topics your classmates are considering. Maybe one of them will spark you to think about an issue or subject you've always wanted  to research more deeply:

Food and food cultures: Family and cultural histories of food, with a cookbook as a final project, are the topic for one pair of students, one from an Ashkenazi background and one from a Sephardi one.

The genre of the horror story: One student wants to read a collection of famous horror stories and then write in the style of each type of macabre tale. You'll be able to track his progress in this project on his blog.

Shark week: Get ready to be terrified by one student's
exploration of sharks and their habits, one of which includes feasting on humans.

Mythology: One student wants to set Torah values against pagan mythological ones, while another wants to explore the diversity of myth by comparing Norse, Egyptian, Greek and/or other myth systems.

Fashion: How did Paris get to be the fashion center of the world? A biography of Coco Chanel becomes the jumping off point into this student's exploration of the fashion industry and its epicenter, the capital of France.