DADOES End of the Book Options

Post options -- Respond to one of the following questions:

1. Is Deckard an android?
2. Is Mercer real?
3. Do androids deserve rights on earth 2021?
4. Is the ending real?
5. What's up with the toad?
6. Or come up with your own question...
   

DADOES End of the Book Options:

• Critical essay, straight up*
• Allusion exploration: take any allusion in DADOES, and explore it more deeply by addressing the following questions: What is the original context of the allusion? How was it received by the public? What kind of themes arose? How does it inform DADOES?
  
• Create a new allusion: What else might have PKD included to inform his DADOES narrative? Where would it fit and how? What would it bring to the story?
• Create a sound-track for DADOES. Provide copious liner-notes.
• Redesign the book cover. Provide an explanation of your artistic choices.
• Write yourself into a scene in DADOES.
• Rewrite a chapter as a part of a screenplay. Provide stage directions.
• Choreograph an interpretive dance and perform it.
• Shoot a scene for DADOES the movie. Or create the trailer.
  
• Pitch me a new idea...

Due Friday 9/30.

*If you are gunning for an A in this class, you have to have a critical essay on file for the text of your choice by the end of the semester.

List of Stuff You Should Have

1. 1-3 Notes
2. 4-6 Notes
3. 1 Blog post
4. 7-10 Notes, post, email, or whatever
5. 11-13 Notes, post, etc.
6. Predictions post
   
7. 14-17 Notes, posts, etc.
   
8. 17 - end You know the drill

Last post/write-up:
Explore one theme in DADOES, and examine how it plays out. You should select at least 3 quotes from roughly the beginning, middle, and end of the novel.

All of the above will comprise the DADOES reading/critical thinking assessment.