Romanticism...a learning project
Your mission should you accept it (oops...not an option...). Your mission and you have no choice but to accept it: Together, as a learning community, you are going to learn about Romanticism in Latin America and Spain. (Oh... I forgot the carrot to entice you with...). If you all do a super wonderful (more than adequate) job of this assignment, we will reconsider the final project (scope, weight in your final grade...or maybe even doing it at all)...so hop to, put your thinking caps on, and have fun.
Timeline for completion:
- You have from the end of class, Monday, March 10 until the beginning of class, Wednesday, March 26 to prepare.
- You do not have class either Friday, March 14 or Monday March 24. Obviously you can use that time to work on this project. You may require additional time to complete the task.
Detailed instructions:
- On Wednesday, March 26, you will teach your jetlagged profe about the Romantic period in Spain and Latin America. You may do this in whatever format you wish (bulletin board presentation, talks, video, combination). This cannot last any more than the class time (50 minutes). Reminder, even if you do a bulletin board presentation, I will certainly have questions and you will certainly have to be able to talk about it.
- You must do this in Spanish.
- If you use paper products (ie., posterboard, etc, please keep receipts for reimbursement).
- Everyone must contribute. In your poetry portfolio, you need to write a paragraph about the experience of doing this presentation, your contribution, and how the process went and how you could have helped it to go better.
- These are the things I want to
know about:
- Some basic socio-historical information about the Romantic period in Spain and Latin America.
- What were the main characteristics of the poetry of the Romantic period (how would you be able to distinguish it from poetry of other eras?)
- Who would you put on the "biggie" list of Romantic poets?
- Take 4 poets (I would suggest José de Espronceda, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Rosalia de Castro and Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda but you can make your own minds up), find poems that seem thematically relevant to our class (writing bodies, portrayals of women, view of gender, objectification and reclaiming voice) and comment upon them (you could compare them to each other, you could compare them to poetry of other aesthetic movements, you could put the poetry to music (ah...there are some pretty big Romantic composers), you might look at the Spanish/Hispanic versions of Romanticism related to Romanticism world-wide.
