WARNING: THESE FINAL PROJECT PAGES CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION.
Do not skim. Read carefully. Maybe even print them out and mark them up.
Ignoring instructions or examples will cause you to waste time and become frustrated.
"and in the end"
The Beatles
the Final Project
The Final Project will be the sequel itself. It will be about eight pages and is also worth up to 100 points.
As I noted on the Sequel Project page, "sequal" seems like a very hefty task. You are not expected to write several hundred pages (thank goodness), but how can you deliver an entire sequal to a novel in just eight pages.
Well, you can't.
About the most you can hope to do is a solid, interesting, dramatic chapter that gives a sense of one pivotal scene from your sequel. There can be a conflict (how do my three characters cross a flooded river? or will my one character leave the safety of a fallout shelter when his food is running out or when he is going stir crazy?). You will want to set the scene with lots of descriptive details (what IS that fallout shelter like? It's probably a bit different from the video game Fallout. Your research will have helped you with those details).
With two or more characters you will certainly want some dialogue (can you recall a lot of novels without dialogue?).
And even though you want to tie up all of the loose ends and tell the reader who dies and who lives happily ever after, RESIST THAT URGE!
I recommend you end with some sort of cliffhanger, you get your character(s)into a situation, incorporate some problem, leave the reader guessing what will happen (sort of like every dramatic television show or movie you've ever seen; sort of like Master Chef which cuts to a commercial before letting you know which contestant will be eliminated). Yes, it's maddening, but it's effective.
So if your characters have created a rope bridge to cross that raging river, put one character half way across, and have the branch on the far side of the river start to creak and snap. Stop there. End with a scouting party getting captured by townspeople, or have a scientist discover a cure but have no clear way of getting the cure TO anyone--something like that.
Be creative. Write like a novelist (show, do not explain). Have fun!
It is possible to turn this in by putting it on a blogsite (sort of like an e-publication), in which case you would send me the link, but it also makes sense to submit this as an MLA-format (.doc, .docx, .pdf or .rtf) document that you attach to an e-mail and send me. The choice is yours :)
remember that Acknowledgements page?
You will not inclulde the formal Works Cited page after your scene, but it would be nice to have a separate page where you acknowledge those sources for helping you gather information to put the novel (or this part of it) together.
the comic book; you know the drill by now
If you chose the graphic novel format for the sequel or for telling the Dr. Eleven comic book story from the novel, you still have your eight pages. The key difference is that you are submitting this in paper format (probably saved. as a .pdf) or as a series of slides via PowerPoint or even Prezi or as a series of images on a website or blogsite. If it is a manuscript or a PowerPoint, just attach the file to an e-mail and send it (some PowerPoint files are huge, so you may have to send it as Part 1 and Part 2 in separate e-mails). If it is web-based, then send me an e-mail with the link.
You would also do well to start in the middle of action (adrenaline rush!) and end with some sort of cliffhanger, but since a lot of the information will be visual, you can actually get a lot more story into eight pages of a comic book than you can in a novel, where all of those visuals require descriptive writing and detailed narrative.
Comic books generally do not have Afterwords or Acknowledgement pages, so don't include that if you are doing the comic.
That's it :)
you are not alone
You can view Final Project samples in the Files section of Canvas