"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.

NOTE: Do not put actual documented quotations from your research paper into your sequel.

You use that information to give you ideas and details which you put into your own words and shape/change so that they fit your story.

Many novelists do include an Acknowledgements page at the end, giving credit to the people who inspired thier works or sources that helped them with subjects they didn't know a lot about.

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 :)

you are not alone

You can view a Final Project sample for the Sequel on Etudes > Resources > Essays > Station Eleven folder.