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C2: Reinvests Understanding of Texts
Enriched English, Second Cycle, Year 1
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PROJECT DESCRIPTION
The story, ‘Nightmare in Yellow’ by Fredric Brown, that you have recently read is the basis of this project. Using the last two paragraphs of the story as a starter, you will write a short text to finish the story ‘Nightmare in Yellow’.
Second, you will create a visual representation of the ending/sequel to the story. To do this, you should consider the different characters and elements of the setting present in the story. Please remember that what you write should be a logical continuation to the story. This project will be done in pairs. For this project, you will use the following materials:
Story (Nightmare in Yellow)
Project Booklet
The Grammar Guide
The Longman Dictionary
Your peers
Instructions: STEP 1: READ THE STORY AGAIN Read the story again for it to be fresh in your memory. Feel free to take notes on your text about setting and characters in order for you to have all the elements you need for the task.
STEP 2: BRAINSTORMING With your partner, brainstorm on the ending that you would like to give to the story. Note down your ideas in the space provided on page 6. Remember, it needs to be based on the short story ‘Nightmare in Yellow’.
STEP 3: FIRST DRAFT Write the first draft of your paragraph(s) in the space provided on pages 7-8. Your text must satisfy the following requirements:
It must be about 200 words. It must include the following characters: the husband, the wife, and the party
guests. You can add characters if you like. It must include at least three elements of the setting of the story.
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STEP 4: PEER CORRECTION Ask one of your classmates (it must be someone from another team) to read your text. He/She
must tell you if it is logical: he/she must understand the story clearly.
This person needs to write few comments that will help you improve your text. He/She must then sign his/her name in the appropriate space on page 8.
STEP 5: CORRECTION Read your classmate’s comments and make any adjustments to your text. Those adjustments must be done in a colored pen (blue is preferred).
STEP 6: FINAL DRAFT Write your final draft in the space provided in the Final Project Booklet. Be sure to write clearly (choose the best writer between the two of you ). Also, be careful of transcription mistakes!!
STEP 7: BRAINSTORM THE FINAL SCENE With your peer, brainstorm on the scene that you want to draw in order to illustrate the story you wrote. Think about the different elements of the setting you want to emphasize in your text. Note down your ideas in the space provided on page 9.
STEP 8: FIRST DRAFT
Draw a first draft of the final scene in the space provided on page 10. It does not need to be extremely pretty or very artistic: it is just to give me an idea of what you would like your visual representation to look like.
STEP 9: FINAL DRAFT The final draft of your visual representation must be done in the Final Project Booklet. For this final draft, you can choose to do one of the following:
Draw a picture
Create a collage
Take a picture (that you take or that is taken off the Internet) HOWEVER, it must occupy the entire space in the rectangle.
Your project must be handed in to me on
NOVEMBER 14.
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Step 1: Read the Story Again
He awoke when the alarm clock rang, but lay in bed a while after he’d shut it off, going a final
time over the plans he’d made for embezzlement that day and for murder that evening.
Every little detail had been worked out, but this was the final check. Tonight at forty-six
minutes after eight he’d be free, in every way. He’d picked that moment because this was his fortieth
birthday and that was the exact time of day, of the evening rather, when he had been born. His
mother had been a bug on astrology, which was why the moment of this birth had been impressed on
him so exactly. He wasn’t superstitious himself, but it had struck his sense of humour to have his new
life begin at forty, to the minute.
Time was running out on him, in any case. As a lawyer who specialized in handling estates, a
lot of money passed through his hands – and some of it had passed into them. A year ago he’d
“borrowed” five thousand dollars to put into something that looked like a sure-fire way to double or
triple the money, but he’d lost it instead. Then he “borrowed” more to gamble with, in one way or
another, to try to recoup the first loss. Now he was behind to the tune of over thirty thousand; the
shortage couldn’t be hidden more than another few months and there wasn’t a hope that he could
replace the missing money by that time. So he had been raising all the cash he could without arousing
suspicion, by carefully liquidating assets, and by this afternoon he’d have running away money to the
tune of well over a hundred thousand dollars, enough to last him the rest of his life.
And they’d never catch him. He’d planned every detail of his trip, his destination, his new
identity, and it was fool proof. He’d been working on it for months.
His decision to kill his wife had been relatively an after thought. The motive was simple: he
hated her. But it was only after he’d come to the decision that he’d never go to jail, that he’d kill
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himself if he was ever apprehended, that it came to him that – since he’d die anyway if caught – he
had nothing to lose in leaving a dead wife behind him instead of a living one.
He’d hardly been able to keep from laughing at the appropriateness of the birthday present
she’d given him (yesterday, a day ahead of time); it had been a new suitcase. She’d also talked him
into celebrating his birthday by letting her meet him downtown for dinner at seven. Little did she
guess how the celebration would go after that. He planned to have her home by eight forty-six and
satisfy his sense of the fitness of things by making himself a widower at that exact moment. There
was a practical advantage, too, in leaving her dead. If he left her alive, but asleep, she’d guess what
had happened and call the police when she found him gone in the morning. If he left her dead, her
body would not be found that soon, possibly not for two days, and he’d have a much better start.
Things went smoothly at his office; by the time he went to meet his wife everything was ready.
But she dawdled over drinks and dinner and he began to worry whether he could get her home by
eight forty-six. It was ridiculous he knew but it had become important that his moment of freedom
should come then and not a minute earlier or a minute later. He watched his watch.
He would have missed it by half a minute if he’d waited ‘till they were inside the house. But
the dark of the porch of their house was perfectly safe, as safe as inside. He swung the crowbar
viciously once, as she stood at the front door, waiting for him to open it. He caught her before he got
the door open and then got it closed from the inside.
Then he flicked the switch and yellow light leaped to fill the room, and, before they could see
that his wife was dead and that he was holding her up, all the assembled birthday party guests
shouted “Surprise!!”
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Step 2: Brainstorming
In pairs, brainstorm on the ending that you would like to give to the story. Note down your ideas in
the space provided in the Project Booklet. Remember, it needs to be based on the two last
paragraphs of the short story ‘Nightmare in Yellow’.
He would have missed it by half a minute if he’d waited ‘till they were inside the house. But the dark of
the porch of their house was perfectly safe, as safe as inside. He swung the crowbar viciously once, as she stood
at the front door, waiting for him to open it. He caught her before he got the door open and then got it closed
from the inside.
Then he flicked the switch and yellow light leaped to fill the room, and, before they could see that his
wife was dead and that he was holding her up, all the assembled birthday party guests shouted “Surprise!!”
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Step 3: First Draft
Write the first draft of your paragraph(s). Your text must follow the following requirements: It must be long of about 200 words. It must minimally include the following characters: the husband, the wife, the
party guests. It must include at least three elements of the setting of the story. Both team mates must participate in the writing of the draft.
He would have missed it by half a minute if he’d waited ‘till they were inside the house. But the dark of
the porch of their house was perfectly safe, as safe as inside. He swung the crowbar viciously once, as she stood
at the front door, waiting for him to open it. He caught her before he got the door open and then got it closed
from the inside.
Then he flicked the switch and yellow light leaped to fill the room, and, before they could see that his
wife was dead and that he was holding her up, all the assembled birthday party guests shouted “Surprise!!”
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Step 4: Peer Comments
Ask one of your classmate (it must be one from another team than yours) to read your text.
He/She must tell you if it is logical: he/she must understand clearly the story.
This classmate needs to write few comments that will help you improve your text.
He/she must then sign his/her name in the appropriate space.
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Step 5: Correction
Read your classmate’s comments and make adjustment to your text. Those adjustments must be done in a colored pen (blue is preferred)
Step 6: Final Draft
Write your final draft in the space provided in the Final Project Booklet. Be sure to write clearly (choose the better writer of the two of you ). Also, be careful of transcription mistakes!!
Step 7: Brainstorm the Final Scene
With your partner, brainstorm about the scene that you want to draw in order to complement the story you wrote. Think about the different elements of the setting you want to emphasize in your text. Note down your ideas in the space provided in the Project Booklet.
Characters chosen Elements of setting chosen
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Step 8: First Draft
Step 9: Final Draft
Draw your final draft in the space provided in the Final Project Booklet. Be sure to add colors
as it is indicated in the Project Description.
Draw neatly and clearly
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Evaluation Grid
Criteria 5
Exceeds expectations
4 Meets
expectations
3 Meets
expectations but needs
improvement
2 Does not
meet expectations
1 Serious
difficulties / incomplete /
not done
EVIDENCE OF UNDERSTANDING THE TEXT
The facts/ideas in the story are true to the original story (i.e.
do not contradict
the facts/ideas
in the story)
All the facts/ideas are true to the original story and
add something very logical
to the sequel.
All the facts/ideas are true to the original
story and add something
logical to the sequel.
One fact/idea is not true to the original
story and/or are
somewhat logical in
regards to the sequel.
Two facts/ideas are not true
to the original story but are not
logical in regards to the sequel.
The ideas are not true to the original
story and are not logical in
regards to the sequel.
USE OF KNOWLEDGE OF THE TEXT IN A REINVESTMENT TASK
The story contains relevant
information pertaining
to the required
elements: -Husband -Wife -Party guests -Setting
The story contains
information relevant to
all four requirements
AND Contains
additional details from the original story that
help build/enrich the sequel. The story is
also very coherent.
The story contains
information relevant to all
four requirements.
The story is coherent.
The story contains
information relevant to three out of
the four requirements
and is still coherent.
Despite being
coherent, the story contains
very little of the required
elements.
The story does not
include any of the
required elements.