THE PROJECT

Assignment: Your small group will act as the ruling Party of your own society. You will create and present your Party & Society in a mutlimedia group presentation. You will build an informative, dynamic blog site about your society . You will be graded daily for your work-ethic and progress, and graded for your blog-based presentation. Your blog must include: 1) all writing requirements; 2) an abundance of accompanying relevant images; 3) links to relevant  web sites (videos, music, informative, social).

Create: Writing Requirements include: 
1- A Party Manifesto  
2- Party Slogans
3- Party Department Responsibilities (“Ministries”)

4- A description of your Social Hierarchy
5- a)  Party flag & Artist's Statement; b) Party Uniform & Symbolic Significance; c) Insignia & Explanation of History & Symbolism; d) Loyalty Oath,  and e) Musical Anthem.
6- A description of key Social Institutions including education, law & order, government, religion, media & entertainment, family, military, etc.
 

Present: a 30 minute multi-media indoctrination. Your Party will teach our class about your Party’s principles & practices and your Society's culture & institutions.

Project Prep: 3 Essential Questions

-Your small group is an elite, select group of thinkers and leaders who will shape the society of your collaborative vision! Such an endeavor must begin with existentially provocative questions such as:

           1.What is human nature?

              People are naturally…….

 

 

           2.What is the purpose of society?

              Societies must be formed in order to….

               3.What guiding Principles should a society be built 
            around?

             Our society will be based on the principles of.....



-First, draft and submit a collaborative full response to each prompt! One paragraph per essential question minimum.

-Next, design a website that's better than  the INGBIGS model below.

-Finally, create your own utopia!



INGBIGS: A Literary Dictatorship!

BIGSBANIA

 

LAND OF INGBIGS

National Anthem


"We Will Rock You"  by Queen
This classic track was selected for its lyrical demonstration of characterization, conflict, and theme. 

INGBIGS will drag humanity out of the mud of illiteracy and rule the world with poetic justice. 

Booknerds will rock you!

INGBIGS Party Pledge:

I am
a reader and a writer
I am
an artist and a philosopher

I am the
poet warrior
the image and the word

I am
my character
I am 
my conflict

Our theme is
INGBIGS

INGBIGS forever,
Forever we are.

PARTY MINISTRIES:

Ministry of Literature & Composition: The totalatarian MLC organizes all literary studies, as well as analytical, critical, and creative writing. This Ministry essentially coordinates all aspects of education, entertainment, family-life, government, and religion. It is the most powerful branch of INGBIGS and is staffed by an elite command known as the Literati.



Ministry of Poetry: The Ministry of Poetry is in charge of law & order and the military. The primary instrument of  law enforcement is the infamous Library Police. The "Militerary" is staffed by compulsory service and funded by library late fees. The Ministry, MP, is housed in a facility dubbed the HHQ, or Haiku Headquarters,  an underground compound located beneath the Capital Library.


Ministry of Words: The MW oversees the economy of Bigsbania. All literary pursuits within Bigsbania are government funded; upper-class citizens earn government salaries based on their reading and writing aptitude and achievement; the middle-class earns state-funded salaries and extra-credit for voracious reading and writing; the lower classes are paid a living-wage for performing their technical services and can earn a personal pizza for every book they finish. Government funds are fueled by INGBIGS international bookstores and cafes.The open market in Bigsbania, where all nonliterary goods are produced and consumed,  is generally governed by capitalistic principles, though strong, charitably-funded social services exist for the bookless, the vision-imapired, and all those hungry for the nourishment of literature.

INGBIGS SLOGANS

Big(sby) Brother is Watching You!

Education is Enlightenment.

Reading is Power.

Study Guides are Purity.

Homework is Happiness.

Journaling is Victory.

Literature is Life.

Read or Die.