Topic Brainstorm

When I was thinking about which direction I wanted to go with this project, I honestly had a really hard time narrowing it down because so many different things came to mind. That being said, I decided to take advantage of this assignment opportunity to fully dive in to a couple of different things that are completely separate from each other, don't follow any type of theme, but interest me greatly.

The first thing I am interested in possibly doing for the project is something on the Canterbury Tales, potentially to be based on the storybook collection found within the Untextbook. Being an English education major and having always loved English growing up, the Canterbury Tales is a piece of literature that I have never really looked at. I think it would be so cool to get to read them and then retell them in my own unique way. As of now, I'm not completely sure of which direction I would take it but I think it could be cool to change the setting to a modern time as opposed to it's original one. The storybook collection I researched had it in modern prose but I might would even take it one step further to completely revamp the setting and maybe add a few more bells and whistles while I'm at it.

A page from George Chaucer's original

Canterbury Tales. Source: Wikimedia Commons

Another topic that I am interested in further exploring is that of The Gods and Goddesses of Olympus. I remember doing this unit a couple of times in high school and I was always so fascinated by it and would love to learn more about it. As far as a direction for the project, I think it would be cool to somehow explain or create some type of drama between them. I especially liked the way some of the examples were done in diary format and thought it might be cool to potentially turn it into a series of letters that the Gods and Goddesses write to each other, letting them know what is going on in their lives as if they had been separated.

Aurora, the goddess of the morning red, is just one of

many that could be included in such a project.

Source: Wikimedia Commons

Additionally, I am interested in potentially doing something with a biblical foundation such as the Biblical Love Stories project that was posted in the Untextbook or even something along the lines of a rendition of major Bible stories retold someway. This might be something cool to do in a letter or diary format where one character is present to tell what is going on in all stages. The idea is still a work in progress but my Christian faith is something that has always been super important to me so I would love to dive into it in this way and to get to incorporate it into such a big project. 

Noah's Ark, a story found in Genesis in the Bible,

is a story I could possibly add in this type

of project. Source: Wikimedia Commons

Last, but certainly not least, I was considering doing a project of some sort based on the Caribbean culture. This is definitely the subject area that I know the least about, meaning there is a ton that I could learn from it. I am interested in this route because my family and I have traveled to multiple parts of the Caribbean region and it is something that I absolutely love overtime. The people there are so kind and the islands themselves are amazing. For that reason, I think it would be amazing to dive into their culture and some of their literature and then have an opportunity to create some of my own. I was thinking it might be kind of cool to do some kind of Caribbean meets the rest of the world or Caribbean meets America type thing, but I am not entirely sure what that would look like yet. I also like the idea of turning these short poems from the link above into full prose for my rewriting.

The region from which such tales come from. 

Source: Wikimedia Commons