Projects

Special thanks to the students of 11B and 11C for their stellar contributions to the Utopian Project. The above works are plays: Blade of Apollo (composed by Anas Emad, Mohannad Abbas, Salman Saleh, Abdulla Taha, and Mahmoud Hassan of 11B) and Dora Mission of Peace (composed by Jaber Ibrahim, Abdullah Ali, Ahmed Sulaiman, Khalid Eissa, and Baraa Ibrahim of 11C).

The Utopian Project:

1. Students will read and discuss The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin documenting the key events and concepts through Cornell Notes.

2. The Main Principle (e.g., capitalism, utopia, or altruism) is identified and developed into a thesis via a PNNU chart.

3. The class will perform readings and analytical discussions of a few, select short plays with specific attention to format, exegesis, and allegory. 

4. Next, in groups, the students will utilize the theses and Cornell Notes to compose original plays that thematically conceptualize the identified principles. The plays will use fantastical elements, metaphors, and other literary devices to symbolize true geopolitical representations of these principles.

5. Finally, after readings and discussions of the finished plays, each group will be randomly assigned a thematic principle from one play to later defend in an organized debate addressing the real geopolitical framework of the literature.

The above video was masterfully produced and directed by Mostafa Alfatih, Jamal Abdulsalam, Hamza Khalid, Abdulrahman Omar, and Ahmed Duraid Alshareefi of 11F for the Persuasive Language Project. Thank you, gentlemen, for your hard work and dedication!

The Persuasive Language Project:

1. Students will read, discuss, and identify key forms of nonfictional prose (expository, persuasive, and imperative) with primary focus on audience and point of view, i.e., first person, second person, and third person.

2. They will then assemble into groups and create their own renditions of each rhetorical form.

3. Finally, each group must select one of their written pieces to develop into an alternative form of media for presentation.