The Frisch LEADS project is worth 30% of your annual grade.
You have to meet with your teacher-mentor at least three times over the course of the semester to make sure the project is running smoothly and appropriately. You are responsible to make the appointments.
You may not come to class unprepared to work. What does that mean?
The following are acceptable activities for Frisch LEADS:
* Reading texts and other media that are part of the research for your project.
* Blogging on the progress of your and other classmates' projects.
* Meeting with your teacher-mentor to decide on the course of your project and how it's being implemented.
Expectations:
You must write a 20 page paper that: reflects research of at least 15 printed sources (non-electronic), 2 interviews, 3 audio/visual sources and 5 printed/electronic sources, all conforming to MLA guidelines.
The paper is driven by an underlying question, challenge, or investigative impetus; it serves to draw together a topic or idea which stems from literature or the literary and which crosses over into the real world. It is not simply a review, but an attempt to challenge a long-held view and reimagine a concept in a new light.
Sample project ideas:
* Legal insanity defense and Hamlet or another character
* Spousal abuse/women's shelter chesed, especially in light of the societal norms in literature (A Doll House, A Streetcar Named Desire)
* The ethical dilemma of governmental spending on the space flights (science fiction)
* A defense of apartheid through literature
* A literary cookbook -- recipes (and what makes them reflection of their times/places) derived from literary references to food
* Physical disabilities and equality and the roles the disabled have played in literature over time
* Use of conflicting lenses such as Marxism, feminism, psychoanalysis, multiculturalism to analyze a work of literature and how we can create more equality or better mental and physical health as a result of our knowledge of past injustices
* Understanding of leisure time in the past and in literature and how our society's physical and mental health measures up against past societies'
* Time and how different societies view it and how to use it
* Spousal abuse/women's shelter chesed, especially in light of the societal norms in literature (A Doll House, A Streetcar Named Desire)
* The ethical dilemma of governmental spending on the space flights (science fiction)
* A defense of apartheid through literature
* A literary cookbook -- recipes (and what makes them reflection of their times/places) derived from literary references to food
* Physical disabilities and equality and the roles the disabled have played in literature over time
* Use of conflicting lenses such as Marxism, feminism, psychoanalysis, multiculturalism to analyze a work of literature and how we can create more equality or better mental and physical health as a result of our knowledge of past injustices
* Understanding of leisure time in the past and in literature and how our society's physical and mental health measures up against past societies'
* Time and how different societies view it and how to use it
