EXTRA CREDIT PROJECTS
Extra credit can be a great way to enhance your knowledge about specific areas of interest for students. Students can investigate authors, ideas, themes and more. This can be especially valuable if they can share their expanded knowledge with the class at large.
Key principles to remember . . .
1. Extra credit assignments cannot be used to make up for required class work.
2. Extra credit will be graded on the long-standing value it provides for the teacher/class.
3. All extra credit projects become the property of the teacher.
4. All extra credit projects MUST be approved beforehand by the teacher.
A Selection of Extra Credit Project Suggestions
1. Do additional reading. Check out my list of favorite reads on my Personal Writing Page of this website. You are welcome to read any of the books on that list. To receive full credit, you must do a brief written assessment and an oral interview with your teacher. (Again, remember to get books approved ahead of time.)
2. Do additional writing. All published pieces of writing are eligible for extra credit. Students are encouraged to submit their creative work to contests and publications outside the school. Student writing that is published as a result of submission to reputable publications or contests will be considered for extra credit. In addition, pieces that are used in FVL school publications are given double credit.
2. Obtain a copy of Shakespeare and Macbeth: The Story Behind Behind the Play (author - Stewart Ross, publisher - Viking Press) and use this book to create a Powerpoint presentation to the class on the background of this important Shakespearean play.
3. Take one of the "age period" filmstrips and create your own accompanying cassette commentary with words and music which will "reach" today's students. A variation on this project would be to change one of these filmstrips into a Powerpoint presentation for class use.
4. Design a "Literary Pictionary" game. Use items from the entire course. (Check out Vocabulary & Terms web page.) Prepare cards with clues. Write a detailed instruction sheet and be prepared to test your game on the class.
5. Set Kipling hymn on page 544 to music and sing/play for class.
6. Build a model of an Elizabethan theatre. Provide bibliography in correct form. See Ashley Thorndike's book in the Media Center reference section. (Keep maximum dimensions under 19 inches so it will fit in display case.)
7. Write a contemporary Lutheran version of Everyman with a modern setting and temptations. Consider videotaping it or having your friends act it out in class.
8. Make a Jeopardy board large enough to use in class. Conduct your game as a review activity near the end of the semester or school year. Use questions and categories from the entire grading period. Avoid including obscure information that is not part of a useful class review. Your grade will be determined on conducting the show as well as making the board and preparing the questions. (This may be a group project.)
9. Write an extended parody of high school life or of one of the works we have studied in class. This must be done with a clear Christian perspective so that this work can be shared with the class.
10. Check out this WORD SEARCH on Norse Mythology. Do the word search and on a separate sheet of paper, define each of the terms on the word list. Hand them in together. Click on Norse Mythology to get to the word search puzzle.