Author Study Project

Presented by Seniors in The Great Books (ADV English) class at Cary Academy. Click on the Author's Portrait to view a one-minute streaming video designed to portray the essence of an author's life and work.
To prepare for this project students read a biography of a favorite writer, choosing from a master List and a major work by that writer. (Read the Project Description.) Students chose a key passage from the work that typifies the writer's interests and style, and also found or wrote themselves a short passage that helps to explain the author's passion. They viewed a Demo video prepared by our Media Technology teacher, Mr. Hamilton, to get video design ideas. Then they incorporated their ideas and passages into a one-minute video using a variety of state-of-the-art computer technologies, including digital image processing (using Adobe Photoshop), sound effects and music (using Acid Music), voiceover recording (using Sound Forge), and video image processing (using Adobe Premiere). The projects were graded on how well the short videos communicate the essence of the author the student studied.
Go to Class of 2005 Student Videos
Go to Alpha List of Authors
Go to pictures and student comments about the project

Class of 2004 Student Videos

Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse Five	James Thurber The Thurber Carnival	Isabel Allende House of Spirits	J. R. R. Tolkien The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	James Joyce Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Tim O'Brien Going after Cacciato
Edgar Alan Poe The Complete Stories	George Orwell 1 Animal Farm	Sylvia Plath The Bell Jar	C. S. Lewis The Screwtape Letters	John Steinbeck East of Eden	George Orwell 2 1984
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest	Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude	Ernest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises 1	Joyce Carol Oates Rape: A Love Story	Franz Kafka The Metamorphosis and Other Stories	Robert Frost Poems
Ernest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises 2	Maya Angelou 1 I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings	Ken Kesey One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Steven King Carrie	T. S. Eliot The Waste Land and Other Poems	J. M. Coetzee Disgrace
Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club	Maya Angelou 2 I Wouldn't Take Nothing For My Journey Now	J. R. R. Tolkien The Lost Lore of Middle Earth	Jane Austen 1 Northhanger Abbey	Jane Austen 2 Pride and Prejudice