Some suggestions for creative presentations on May 10 and 12, groups 11-20

1. Dramatic or film enactments of scenes using sections of dialogue in works we’ve been reading, or rewritings of scenes as scripts, e.g. The Kreutzer Sonata, pages 118-120, The Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass pages 18-20, Colonel Chabert pages 62-67, The Metamorphosis, pages 14-24.

2. A large-size collage of images illustrating the content and structure of one of the works read or a section of one of them.

3. A musical setting of a scene from one of the works read.

4. A newspaper or TV news report of an incident related in one of these narratives.

5. The composition of an alternative ending to Kreutzer Sonata, Colonel Chabert, or The Metamorphosis.

6. A multimedia presentation of images or film clips reflecting the Contrary States of Beethoven’s Kreutzer Sonata.

7. A performance and discussion of the background and feelings of a work by Beethoven.

8. A poem, ballad, or rap retelling one of the stories read.

9. A dramatized conversation people among people of different social standings about one of the stories or events in one of the stories reflecting divergent points of view.

10. Retelling of one of the stories from the point of view of a different character in the same story, e.g. Gregor's sister, Pozdnychev's wife, Madame Ferraud, Mr. Covey.

11. A comic strip version of part or all of one of the narratives.

12. An imagined trial scene--e.g. cross examination of Pozdnischeff or Chabert or closing arguments.

13. A conversation about women between Pozdnischeff and Chabert; a conversation about men between

Pozdnischeff's (never named) wife and the Countess Ferraud.