Turning visible the invisibleWeb Quest

8th grade2nd term

The Victoria School

Key Concepts

Tragic

Characteristic or suggestive of tragedy. Extremely mournful, melancholy, or pathetic. Dreadful, calamitous, disastrous, or fatal.

Tragedy

Is a form of drama based on human suffering that invokes in its audience an accompanying catharsis or pleasure in the viewing.

Key Concepts

Symbolism

“In this art, scenes from nature, human activities, and all other real world phenomena will not be described for their own sake; here, they are perceptible surfaces created to represent their esoteric affinities with the primordial Ideals”.

Symbolist Manifesto, Jean Moréas, Le Figaro 1886.

The symbolist painters used mythological and dream imagery. The symbols used by symbolism are not the familiar emblems of mainstream iconography but intensely personal, private, obscure and ambiguous references.

Key Concepts

Edgar Allan Poe

American author, poet, editor,and literary critic, consideredpart of the American RomanticMovement. His works were asignificant influence for thesymbolism and the source ofmany stock tropes and images.Best known for his tales ofmystery and the macabre, Poewas one of the earliest Americanpractitioners of the short story.

Before starting…

Read one of this two Poe’s stories:• The Tell-Tale Heart

http://poestories.com/read/telltaleheart

• The Black Cat

http://poestories.com/read/blackcat

Exercise

Choose an unfortunate event that took place this year and write a short story about it as a big tragedy (200 words). It can be written in third person.

Illustrate your feelings related to that specific moment using two techniques of those seen in class (pen, collage, watercolor or ink).

Accompany the text also with your picture in a dramatic position (like the symbolist artists portraits).

Deadline: March 6th, 8am.

Evaluation

The composition and harmony between the text, your picture and the illustration.

Everything must be placed in the same double page or A3 format (28 cm x 43 cm).

The text must be in English and done on computer, while the illustration must be the original.

The work must be explained in class, the same day of the deadline.

Good use of techniques (at least two of those seen in class)

Punctuality and clarity of the ideas.

Good luck…