Time for the Time Machine Projects

You should have 2 of the 3 required C Layer activities completed today. Each bullet counts as one activity. The list of C Layer Activities is listed after the jump.

Our reading of The Time Machine will continue today and next week, according to the calendar of activities. After you finish the activities for C Layer, be sure to begin working on B Layer and A Layer. A Layer will take you the longest of all the layers.

HONORS: Be sure to be working on your handouts outside of class. Topics and directions are found after the jump.

Perhaps an easier-to-navigate audiobook can be found at the following website: http://archive.org/details/time_machine_0805_librivox
This is the audiobook we will listen to for in-class readings.


C Layer Activities
Choose THREE activities.

Interpersonal

• Present the Time Traveller’s story as a CNN news item.
• Create an advertisement (flyer, commercial, newspaper ad, etc) for rides in the Time Machine.

Intrapersonal

• Create an emotion web for the Time Traveler.  Include at least six branches which are all supported with textual proof.

Verbal/Linguistic

• Create ten vocabulary flash cards using unfamiliar words from the text.  Include a written piece using each of the words in its correct context.
• Write a poem about Weena that makes use of strong imagery.

Musical/Rhythmic

• Choose excerpts of music to serve as a soundtrack to the film version.  Explain your choices.

Bodily/Kinesthetic

• Alone or with a partner, act out a scene from the book.  Be expressive.  Get teacher approval for your scene choice.   Include a written explanation of the scene you chose and what you were trying to express.

Logical/Mathematical

• Create one quiz with an answer key for one of the sets of chapters: Chapter 1-3, 4-6, 7-12. 

Visual/Spatial

• Recreate the cover of the book.  Submit a written explanation of your artwork.
• Be a costume designer and create an Eloi outfit. You may make the outfit out of cloth or create a paper doll with paper clothes.  Provide textual proof of your choices.

B Layer Activities

Choose ONE of the following activities FROM EACH CATEGORY to complete before moving on to Layer A.

B1 Respond to one of the following journal topics. Each response should be a full hand-written page. #s refer to chapter.

1.       Connection to personal experience. Think of a time when you had something very important to say or an interesting story to tell. Describe the event as if you are watching a soundless video of it. Narrate the video.

2.       Predicting as a reading strategy. What do you think will happen next? What clues in the story cause you to make these predictions?

3.       Making Inferences. Based on how the Time Traveller looked and acted in the previous chapter, where do you think he has been? What specific events could account for his current condition?

4.       Connecting to ideas in the novel. Describe your idea of Utopia. What would this world look like? Who would be there?

5.       Connecting to an experience. Describe the experience of returning home after being gone for a while. What would it be like to go far away and find you cannot return home? Why is returning home so important?

6.       Musical theme songs. What song reminds you of either a character or what a character is experiencing? Describe the song. Alternate topic: Write a theme song for one of the characters. Why does this song fit the character so well?

7.       Relating to the story. In the first five chapters, find a passage that you respond to emotionally. Copy a few sentences from the passage and then explain why it affected you strongly.

8.       Museum of the future. Pretend that it is 100 years from today and people are going through a museum to learn about our time in history. What will they find in the museum? What do these items say about us?

9.       Making predictions. What do you think will happen to the Time Traveller and Weena after they leave the palace? What clues in the story help you make this prediction?

10.   Connecting to self. Think of an experience you had encountering something for the first time. What were your first impressions? How did they change over time?

11.   Making predictions based on characterization. How do you think the Time Traveller’s guests will react to his story? Who, if anyone, will believe his tale? What will those who do not believe the Time Traveller think has happened?

B2 Complete one handout for a set of chapters. See Mrs. Heck for those worksheets!

A Layer Activities: Writing

Choose ONE of the following topics to create a grammatically correct, fully-developed piece of writing.

• ·         Come up with a race of people that you would discover in the future of Earth. Name them by combining two words. (Barf + Laugh = Blaurf)
• ·         Respond to the following with a logical, evidence-based essay: “Is democracy, as is so often assumed, really the best form of government?” 
• ·         Write a science fiction story.  Your story must involve research on a topic relevant to current issues.  Research inclusion could be about genetics, touchscreen technology, virtual payment, medicine, birth, growth, beauty products, time-savers, etc.

• Compose and perform a song about the Time Traveler and his society.  Listen to Elton John’s “Rocket Man” or David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” as modern-day examples. 

• Write a personal essay on The Time Machine. Figure out a topic based on theme, whether you agree or disagree with the Time Traveller, the author’s intent of literary devices, etc.  Create a strong thesis and develop your opinion with quotes and examples from the book. What you think about the novel is not as important as why you think it. A reader should reach the end of your essay and say, "I may not agree with this writer's conclusions, but I understand how she/he came to think this."
• Produce the screenplay to a short, modernized version of The Time Machine. Extra points will be awarded if you film and present to the class, who will evaluate your product.  You will require access to a camera and you will need to arrange to film your work outside of class time.   

Honors Assignment

Create a handout for one of the following research ideas related to The Time Machine. Each handout should include;

·         general definition of the subject

·         connections to The Time Machine

·         importance in the English Literary Discipline

·         significance in the world

·         at least one picture

1. The Life of H.G. Wells

2. The Science Fiction Genre

3. The Time Machine as a Dystopia

4.  Frame Narrative

5.  Diction

6.  Victorian England

7.  Women in Victorian Society

8.  Communism and Time Traveller’s first theory

9.  The Capitalist and the Labourer: Time Traveller’s ultimate theory

10.  Possible sources for the terms “Eloi” and “Morlock”

11.  Wells’ teacher, T.H. Huxley

12.  References from the novella (choose three):

Grant Allen, Charles Darwin, Carlyle, Nebuchadnezzar, Kodak, Carlovingian Kings

13.  Other (must be approved by teacher)