POSTER SESSIONS ON APRIL 29 and MAY 1: THE REST OF THESE ARE SMALL PROJECTS THAT MUST BE DONE on or before the last day of classes (THIS IS SO THAT PROF. BAILLY HAS TIME TO FIGURE OUT WHAT GRADE YOU EARNED).

• HOW IT WORKS:
• There are 5 sorts of things in the list below. You must do 30 possible-points worth (30% of your grade). You may do as many of them as you like until you have done 35 possible-points worth: after you have done 35 possible-points, you can keep going just for the sheer joy of it.
  
• Doing 30 possible-points worth does not necessarily mean that you get 30 points: these will be graded for quality as described below.
  
• It is likely that there will not be enough class time to schedule all of these: they can be recorded and posted for the class and others to watch.
• Early bird incentive: skits, games, and presentations done in February will get 2 additional points added: those done in March will get 1 additional point.
• Yes, you may do more than one of the same assignment.
• Almost everyone does a poster.

• IMPORTANT ASSESSMENT CRITERIA THAT APPLY TO ALL OF THESE:
• Must be centered on some aspect of the Trojan War or the central reading assigned to this class (Homer, Tragedies about Trojan War material, or Aeneid).
• Must include critical interaction with that material.
• In other words, the assignment must present analysis that goes beyond description, plot summary, or re-presentation: it must be clear that you put critical thought into this and what that critical thought is. Think of it this way: this is not just show-and-tell. It should go beyond that to offer intelligent thoughtful opinions backed up by evidence. Your own thought should be front and center and it should be about important things.
  
• Must pay attention to details:
• details of the material presented (i.e. don't be vague: use specific and appropriate examples, words, images, etc. from your primary sources)
• detailed critical thought presented (again don't be vague: be as specific and careful as you can in your thoughts)
  
• detailed in presentation/style matters (cite sources precisely, be consistent, use language carefully and precisely)
  

• Posters: 15 points possible
  
• More information and suggestions for these posters will be given in classes before the poster sessions.
  
• The 'poster sessions' are on APRIL 29 and MAY 1 (up to 50 on each day: last names A-H (or so) on April 29, the rest on May 1
  
• You must get your poster to Bailly's office after class. They become way to heavy and awkward for Bailly to carry them all to his office.
  
• The major criteria for grading that are specific to posters (see above for more general assessment criteria):
• Does the poster work visually? This can be broken down into:
  
• is it visually interesting?
  
• does the visual presentation contribute to the class-related content?
  
• It needs to be more than text on a poster: the visual layout and nature of the project must contribute to the intellectual part of the project.
  
• Does the poster incorporate (a significant amount of) important and interesting material from the course material?
  
• Is there thought present in the poster: analysis, intellectual angles, etc.: in other words, is it 'academic' and did it take a lot of thought about our material and display that thought?
  
• Skits:
  
• 15 points for you if you solo write a skit (co-writers get a bit more than half that): writer(s) need not act in skit
  
• points for acting based on how many lines you have: minimum 3 points, maximum 8 points per actor is offered.
• SKIT SCRIPT AND PROGRAM:
  
• Skit team is responsible for giving Bailly a script with the author(s) names clearly given and also, on a separate sheet, a breakdown of 1) the cast, 2) how many lines each actor has, 3) a description of props (and who should get credit for them if they involved significant effort), 4) a description of costumes (and who should get credit for them if they involved significant effort)
• Skit members may choose to simply divide total points for the skit among the whole group.
  
• Skits must be 5 minutes long, give or take 30 seconds at most: rehearse it: minus 1 point per person for 15 seconds shorter than 4.5 min. or longer than 5.5 minutes
  
• Write your own
• There must be a plot and characters.
• No reality shows, no game shows: no bachelorette, no survivor, no jeopardy.
  
• Material may be borrowed directly from reading assignments but it may depart significantly from them as long as it is still clearly and centrally focused on Trojan War-related content.
• Plus approximately one point per actor for not having to hold a script in your hand.
• Yes, have costumes and props, but if they are good enough to be things worth evaluating in themselves, they can get extra points
  
• Maximum points for one person per skit: 20 points. Maximum total points offered per skit for all involved in that skit: 50.
  
• Skits are graded by a sort of overall impression method plus counting lines and actors, and the general assessment criteria above.
  
• Presentations:
  
• Presentations are 5 minutes: longer will have points subtracted (so rehearse it).
• Graded based on quality of content and planning/organization of presentation.
  
• If someone is already doing it, find another topic: first come first served
• Scholarly Articles or Chapters (15 pages or more from a peer-reviewed journal or book publisher: must be available to everyone via Howe library) centered on class material.
  
• 20 points possible
  
• Present a short summary of an article, book chapter, or set of articles to the class.
• There must be visual aids and notes that can be posted for the class to review (notes are required to be sufficient for someone who was not there to learn the material presented).
• Afterlife of the Trojan War in the arts
  
• 15 points possible
  
• Presentation is 5 minutes
  
• Find something from later times that is inspired by the legends and/or the reading material of this class, read/view/analyze/review it and present it to the class.
• Literature: novels, poems, etc.
  
• Entertainment: movies, series, etc.
• Art: paintings, sculpture, etc.
  
• Music: opera, etc.
• Not art, but allowable: Games: re-enactment games, etc.
• Most of you have read Percy Jackson: there is no need to present it and it is barely up to the level of literature desired.
• We want serious literature, attempts at serious art.
  
• You must get Prof. Bailly or Ms. Podgorski's approval.
  
• How to determine if it's appropriate:
  
• Is it 'self-published'? If so, there's a 99% chance it will not be allowed.
• Is it found only on 'social media'? If so, there's a 99% chance it will not be allowed.
  
• Does it demonstrate good knowledge of some part of the Trojan War material from our class and interact with it? If yes, that's a good sign.
  
• Is it lengthy and weighty enough (a one minute video is not, for instance). If yes, that's a good sign.
  
• Is it by a well-known artist/maker? If yes, that's a good sign.
  
• Does it have reviews in mainstream media? If yes, that's a good sign.
  
• Other presentations
• 15 points possible
  
• Any academically-inspired topic relevant to this class is appropriate for a presentation
• A few ideas to get you started:
  
• Archaeology
• Weapons
• Textiles
• Oral epics in other cultures
• Again, you must get Prof. Bailly's or Ms. Podgorski's approval.
• Games:
  
• Make a game that centrally involves material from this class and give a presentation about it to the class.
• original game: 15 points possible
• fully re-writing an existing game to center it on Trojan war (from lore to mechanics to pieces to characters, etc.): 12 points possible
• team efforts: more than a total of 15 points for the team is possible, but not a simple multiple of the number on team: negotiate with Bailly.
• Games will be graded on an overall impression of how relevant to the course, quality, thoughtfulness, in-game world creation, game mechanics explanation/choice, and the overall concept.
• Criteria used to assess presentations (see also the general assessment criteria above)
  
• Required elements: 5-minute presentation, notes in a format that can be linked to the course website (bullet-pointed lists preferred: pdf is a good format).
• Organization: is the material organized in a way that clearly reveals what the main points are, what the evidence for them is, and what the minor points are. Another way to think of this is to ask yourself whether the structure of the presentation and the notes makes really good sense.
• 5 minutes: use all 5 minutes, but no more: this takes rehearsal.
• The notes need to be good enough for people who missed the presentation to understand and learn the material provided in the presentation: are they sufficient for 'stand-alone' readers?
  
• Whatever else you want to do: 15 points possible
  
• This is here for out-of-the-box thinkers
  
• Surprise us
  
• Impress us
  
• Must be obviously and significantly relevant to the course material
• Bailly must approve at least a week before
• Homer-a-thon
• An outdoor all-day event reading Homer aloud to the world.
• 2 points for reading for at least 5 minutes.
• Details TBA.

• QUIZZES: 2 kinds: no makeups ever for any reason (but it is highly unlikely that that will hurt you)
  
• "beginning of class quizzes":
  
• worth 8% of grade: do 2/3 of them for full credit
• NOTE: this means that you can miss every third beginning-of-class quiz, about 5 weeks worth, and still get full credit.
  
• You can drop a proposed quiz question off at the front of class before class begins.
• A group of you will then go outside the classroom and pick about 3 of those questions.
• Those questions plus an 'interesting question' from you will be the quiz.
• an 'interesting question' is one about class material that cannot be answered with just a fact: it requires some explanation, thought, analysis, background knowledge, research, etc.
  
• you will put these on your quiz.
  
• The quizzes will not be graded for correctness: they will be graded for being done. There may be an opportunity to talk to each other and assess and change your answers.
  
• Hand it in, fully done, and you get full credit.
• Hand in a proposed question before class and you get more credit: 0.125%/question: at most 2% extra credit is possible here.
  
• The question must be suitable and appropriate and doable as a quiz question (i.e. answerable in at most a few words, often just a name or two: not too too obvious, not too too obscure, important, and a good thing to know/remember) do this in the right spirit and you get the credit.
  
• "after-each-class quizzes"
• worth 12% of grade: 3 will be dropped
  
• These quizzes will be available on Brightspace soon after class.
• These quizzes must be done by the next class day.
  
• You can retake these quizzes again and again: top grade counts.
  
• Suggestion: do it soon after class until you get 100%.
• Quizzes will be on what was discussed in the class that day: class notes will be posted online that have the answers in them.
  
• There will not actually be one after every class: after classes in which new material was not presented (exams, etc.), there is no point in such a quiz. On some other days, there may not be one.
• MIDTERM: 25% of the grade
  
• Partially made up of 'After-each-class quizzes' material.
• plus:
  
• Factual questions
• Short ID's
• Passage identification
• FINAL: 25% of the grade
  
• SAME AS MIDTERM
• Concentrates on second half of course, but does not ignore the first half.
  

II.

III. EXTRA CREDIT

• Extra Credit: Attend an academic guest lecture in any subject that is not part of a regular course or assigned for a regular course, write up a one-page summary of it, and hand it in to Bailly. +1% on final grade for each of these you do, up to 4%.
• To give you an idea of what qualifies:
  
• The idea here is to attend lectures by scholars who have been invited to UVM to talk about their research.
  
• What might not qualify? An alumni career event or a talk about practicalities of personal finance or student study abroad experience in Italy or how to make a backyard pottery kiln are great, truly, but they are not so much the idea here.