In Class Assignment:
A Society Machine Stops:
A Mash Up by Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster
What Would This Look Like?
First, the students wrote for three to five minutes addressing the following questions:
What machines are in “A Society”?
What societies are in “The Machine Stops”?
After we discussed the ways that the stories engage similar ideas in different ways, the students worked in small groups to consider the elements of video, audio, text, and graphics they would include in a three minute video mash up of Woolf's "A Society" (1921) and Forster's "The Machine Stops" (1909). For 25-30 minutes, the students drafted rough versions of their mash ups to share with and explain to the class. In their short presentations, the students addressed the arguments that their mash ups assert and how they analyze both texts.
A Society Machine Stops:
A Mash Up by Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster
What Would This Look Like?
First, the students wrote for three to five minutes addressing the following questions:
What machines are in “A Society”?
What societies are in “The Machine Stops”?
After we discussed the ways that the stories engage similar ideas in different ways, the students worked in small groups to consider the elements of video, audio, text, and graphics they would include in a three minute video mash up of Woolf's "A Society" (1921) and Forster's "The Machine Stops" (1909). For 25-30 minutes, the students drafted rough versions of their mash ups to share with and explain to the class. In their short presentations, the students addressed the arguments that their mash ups assert and how they analyze both texts.