Literature project

文章大意

两名学生Joey和Olivia讨论文学课的名著项目作业，涉及选择作家（如卡洛斯·卡斯塔尼达、艾米莉·勃朗特）、阅读至少250页的传记、选择长篇小说或诗集、以及制作作者和书籍的短视频等要求。

题目与答案

1. choose a writer from a list provided
   • must do it
   • may do it if possible
   • must not do it

   答案：must do it

   原文定位：Have you checked he's on the list that Dr. Castle gave us? We can't just choose anyone

2. get biographical information from the Internet
   • must do it
   • may do it if possible
   • must not do it

   答案：must not do it

   原文定位：I guess it's okay if we just look up information about him on the Internet;No, it's got to be a full-length book. I think the minimum length is two hundred and fifty pages

3. study a collection of poems
   • must do it
   • may do it if possible
   • must not do it

   答案：may do it if possible

   原文定位：But I guess a collection of short stories would be okay;Yes, or even a collection of poems, they said

4. make a one-hour video
   • must do it
   • may do it if possible
   • must not do it

   答案：must do it

   原文定位：And then the video. We have to make a short video about our author and about the book. How long has it got to be;A minute

5. refer to key facts in the writer's life
   • must do it
   • may do it if possible
   • must not do it

   答案：may do it if possible

   原文定位：So we can back this up with reference to important events in the writer's life if they're relevant. But it's up to us, really

   同义替换：「refer to key facts in the writer's life」↔「reference to important events in the writer's life」

6. Requirements for the project

   Extract chosen from the author's work must reflect the 26_____ and style of the author.

   答案：interests

   原文定位：The handout said after we'd read the biography, we had to read the work we'd chosen by our author and choose a passage that's typical in some way. It typifies the author's interests and style

   同义替换：「extract chosen from the author's work」↔「choose a passage that's typical」

7. Students must find sound effects and 27_____ they choose to match the texts.

   答案：visuals

   原文定位：I think it's more how we can use things like sound effects to create the atmosphere, the feeling we want. And presumably visuals as well? Yeah, of course

8. Students must use a 28_____ of computer software programs to make the video.

   答案：range

   原文定位：Sure. And it's important that we use a range, not just one software program. That's actually one of the things we're assessed on

9. Students must include information about the 29_____ of all material.

   答案：source

   原文定位：So our video has to list all the material used with details of the source in a bibliography at the end

10. Criteria for assessment

    completion of all components - 25 percent

    30_____ (must represent essence of author's work) - 50 percent

    artistic and technical design of video - 25 percent

    答案：content

    原文定位：Then the second part is actually how successful we are at getting the essence of the work. They call that content, and that counts for fifty percent