Project 4
This is the number of minutes your presentation should last, approximately, including time for follow-up questions.
What is five minutes?
This sentence, usually at the end of the intro, states the main argument of your essay.
What is the thesis statement?
This is the writer-director of Lady Bird, and it was her solo directorial debut.
Who is Greta Gerwig?
This Pixar spoof character hides under a chef’s hat and controls him, Ratatouille-style.
Who is Raccacoonie?
This 2001 animated film was the first to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
What is Shrek?
Your main part of your project (not the reflection) should communicate this concept.
What is your Project 3's central argument?
This is the name of the activity where you get input from people before submitting your final draft.
What is peer review?
This is Lady Bird’s real first name.
What is Christine?
This is Evelyn’s judgmental, emotionally distant father.
Who is Gong Gong?
This 2016 film was accidentally announced as Best Picture before the real winner was revealed.
What is La La Land?
In this length of words, you must write a reflective essay, where you’ll examine your growth in research, writing, and critical thinking across the semester.
What is the 600–800 words?
When using a quote, you should include this to show where it came from.
What is an in-text citation?
Complete the quote: “Different things can be sad. It’s not all ___.”
What is war?
This legendary actress plays the tough IRS agent and Evelyn’s secret lover in one universe.
Who is Jamie Lee Curtis?
In this film, the sound of the alien creature’s scream was created by rubbing a metal trash can with dry ice.
What is The Thing?
In Project 4, this part requires you to give thoughtful responses to your classmates’ presentations.
What are the structured feedback worksheets?
These are the three essential parts of a body paragraph.
What are topic sentence, evidence, and analysis?
She’s Lady Bird’s tough, opinionated, endlessly loving mother.
Who is Marion McPherson?
Complete the quote: “I got bored one day, and I put everything on a bagel. Everything. All my hopes and dreams, my old report cards, every breed of dog…”
What is “...every last personal ad on Craigslist.”?
This sci-fi film, directed by Shane Carruth, was made for $7,000 and became infamous for its incredibly dense, nonlinear depiction of time travel.
What is Primer?
A comic strip, live performance, or puppet talking are all examples of this kind of presentation.
What is a multimodal presentation?
This logical flaw occurs when a conclusion doesn’t actually follow from the evidence.
What is a fallacy?
In 2017, Lady Bird briefly held the record for this on Rotten Tomatoes.
What is the most-reviewed film with a 100% score?
Everything Everywhere All At Once won this many Oscars in 2023.
What is seven?
This 1929 silent film, directed by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí, famously opens with a scene where a woman’s eye is sliced open.
What is Un Chien Andalou?