Ad Parody Links

This is the remaining schedule for the semester. As of now, there are no changes.

Here is the rubric for the ad parody video.
Here is the rubric for the group presentation.

Group components - 15% of your final course grade

Individual components - 10% of your final course grade

You will collaborate in small groups of 4-5 to complete this project. You will work with other students who used the same critical lens (class, gender, or race). You will use your combined efforts to synthesize research you did independently and complete new research in order to explore one contemporary social problem regarding class, gender, or race (or another cultural lens). For this project, you will create a parody of an advertisement in video form. You will be advertising a fake product that you “created” as a parody. The goal of this assignment is to make a parody as a way of “talking back” to the companies you wrote your essays about, and other companies who advertise in similar ways. 

You will make a (0:30-1:00 minute) video and give a 5 minute presentation (1 minute minimum per member) explaining your product, what it is parodying, and why you made the rhetorical choices you did. The goal is to think critically about your lens (gender, race, or class) and make an observation about how advertising relates to that topic. You will also provide an annotated bibliography (see example here) - MLA formatted, 2 sources relevant to your topic, a paragraph of summary for each source with at least one complete sentence describing the relevance of that source to your group project as a whole or to your work on the project in particular.

The group component will be half based on the overall group grade for the project (see the video rubric) and half based on group evaluations (see guidelines here). 

The individual component will be half based on your 1 minute minimum of group presentation (see the presentation rubric) and half based on the quality of your annotated bibliography (due the day your group presents). 

Group Contracts - guidelines 

We will work on the contracts this Friday - your participation is mandatory and will be graded, finalized versions should be emailed by midnight!!!