the feats

FEATS OF WISDOM!®

1. Buy a ticket to "The Hobbit" (or any other movie that's likely to draw a large, young, rowdy audience. An empty theater, however, will get you nowhere).  Before the lights dim and the trailers begin, walk to the screen, turn to the audience, and in a loud, clear voice, recite the "To be, or not to be..." soliloquy from Hamlet (don't worry if you make a couple mistakes, just be sure you make it all the way to, "Be all my sins remembered.").  Capture the event on video & post it to your blog.
2. Go to a restaurant and order a hamburger in Old English.  Make yourself understood and obtain your hamburger without translating your order into modern English.  [5PH1NX will not settle for talk that sounds like a commercial for "Medieval Times."  This has to beauthentic Old English-- you may use a translator if necessary.]  You may use hand signals, but only in the most general way-- this is not charades-- and only in Old English.  You may also substitute an item that is less likely to contain pink slime.  Capture the event on video & post to your blog.
3. Stand in the lobby of a public library and politely convince a stranger to read a novel from the AP list.  Use literary elements to make your case.  Post video or stills with narrative to your blog.
4. Write a 2-4 pp. character study that includes zero direct characterization.  Post to your blog.
5. Write a song about the AP literary terms (must include >20).  Bonus if you perform it in a public space.  (May be done as a solo, duet, group, or choir with full orchestra.)  Post song and performance video (if applicable) to blog.
6. Amass a list of Shakespeare references in modern media and post to your blog.  (Embed as much as you can.)
7. Submit a Yelp post in iambic pentameter. Take a screen shot and post to your blog.
8. Remix your favorite movie scene by scripting/acting in iambic pentameter OR in the styles of Dickens, Montaigne, Plato, Bukowski, or any other prominent literary figure you've studied.  Post video to your blog.
9. Visit a retirement home or a hospital.  Read or recite poetry to the residents/patients and answer questions about the work.  Post video, pictures, and/or a narrative of the experience to your blog. 
10. Write and produce rap battles between any/all of the following pairs: Romeo v. Juliet, Hamlet v. Macbeth, Caesar v. Brutus, Lady Macbeth v. Ophelia.  Post to your blog.
11. Create a graphic "Periodic Table of the (Literary) Elements" and post to your blog.
12. Think for yourself.  Create a mission/task/quest that: a)incorporates something from the course worth knowing; b)prepares you for something in your near future; and c)is an insanely good time that helps people by giving them a positive memory.  Determine how to tell the story and... yes: post to your blog.