What interests you personally about the item?

Final Project: What Matters? Down the Corner, Around the Block

ASSIGNMENT: Create
a guide to local arts venues, and/or
special events in the humanities.
“Local” you can drive to in one day and return. The guide MAY NOT include theme parks, tourist attractions on I-Drive,
tourist-like attractions, or popular music. The Wiz Khalifa-Snoop Dogg concert
won’t qualify for this assignment; neither will a Taylor Swift concert. Medieval Times and Epcot Wine and Food Festival are other examples of events, which
are unacceptable for this
assignment. If you have questions about this, just check with me. The point of the exercise is to raise
your awareness of opportunities in your “neighborhood,” beyond the usual suspects.
Your guide should have five (5) events or venues, including
one for the visual arts, and one for the performing arts (music, dance,
theater). Your guide may also include lectures related to the humanities,
historical presentations and sites, gardens, and special events, as for example
The Zora Neale Hurston Festival. The
Cultural Events Module in our course may be helpful with this.
You may take a thematic approach to the assignment. Maybe
you organize your guide around a specific location, or family-friendly venues, or
provide a “budget” friendly guide, or simply a guide for places you’d like to
visit. You may include pictures, drawings, and web links in your guide. Does it
cost money? Is parking a concern? Is the venue appropriate for all ages? Is
there a dress code? Have you been there yourself?
Requirements:
1. Produce a guide to not less than five local venues or
events for the humanities, including at least one visual and one performing
arts venue or event
2. Write an
introduction to your guide. Tell us how
you found these particular events and why you chose them. If you have
first-hand experience of the place, let your reader know that.
3. Describe each venue
or event in your own words. What interests you personally about the item? If you’ve never been to the place, try to find
reviews or talk to people who have, and include this in your description. Do not solely rely on the event or venue web
for information.
4. Give your guide a title.
5. Submit your guide by the due date as a single doc, docx,
pdf, or RTF. Your guide can take the form of a slide show, a hand-drawn
document, a word document, or any other format. Just make sure you save it as a
single document.
6. Participate in the peer review as assigned.
GRADING:
The guide is worth 100 points.
Requirements 80%
Student:
·
Accurately and coherently
addressed the requirements.
·
Meets minimum standards for
college-level written work.
·
Participated as directed in
peer review.
Quality 20%
Student work shows evidence of some or all of the following:
·
personal engagement or connection,
·
thoughtful organization and selection,
·
Description is informed
by knowledge and language appropriate to
the humanities,
·
Creativity

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