Once upon a meme - Assignment 2

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 2,3

Welcome you lovers of English! 

Why am I showing a meme? 

00:59

Who uploaded the video?

1. more than 800000 people
2. less than 8.000000 people
3. youtube
4. their father

02:09

Why did the father uploaded the video of the boys?

How would you feel? 

If your parents uploaded a video of you on youtube? 

Definition:

Definition of meme

1: an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture.

Memes (discrete units of knowledge, gossip, jokes and so on) are to culture what genes are to life. Just as biological evolution is driven by the survival of the fittest genes in the gene pool, cultural evolution may be driven by the most successful memes.

— Richard Dawkins

meme

Would Shakespeare have embraced meme's ?

Memes use vernacular (spoken by the ordinary people) English, phrases from specific English dialects, puns and punning riddles, jargon, slang, shortenings and neologisms as well as patterned way of incorrect spelling and multiple, intentional or unintentional grammar and syntax mistakes.  William Shakespeare played a major role in the transformation of the English language. Many words and phrases were first written down in his plays. He contributed 1,700 words to the English language because he was the first author to write them down. ...

Assignment 2 - Creating a meme (mandatory)

Value: 5 points

We have watched the film version and also read some of the original play text as well as the modern text. Now you are going to design a meme for a character, theme, or a specific scene in the play/film. There are tons of meme creator sites on the internet, but some of the best for their simplicity and selection: Canva/ www.memecreator.org, www.imgflip.com, and www.memegenerator.net. Here’s a meme created through www.imgflip.com inspired by Act I, scene 1 of Romeo & Juliet:

Criteria:

Design a meme for a character, theme, or a specific scene in the play/film.

Give details of the specific situation that your meme refers to, this could be the character or theme or of course the exact Act and Scene reference. 

Make sure the product looks like it could be shared on the internet by using a meme creator site. 

It must be your own work and not an existing meme.

Save it to Google Classroom

Mandatory Assignment 

How to make a meme

Open and download one of the aforementioned sites. 

Search for a template. Browse through the site's library of meme templates for every theme. ...

Most of these sites have a  library with millions of stock images, photos, icons, stickers, speech bubbles and other graphics. ...

Personalize your meme. ...

Save to Google Classroom