English I (Pre-AP): Lightning Thief Facebook Project

To complete this project you must create a fake Facebook page (poster) for one of the Greek gods in The Lightning Thief. Please lay out your page—(I will provide 11"x17" paper; you may also use your own paper that size or larger)—to include the following:

• A large picture of your god/goddess. It can be a hand-drawn picture of a person or a symbol/icon representing that character.
  
  
• Background information about that character:
  
  
• Gender
• Hobbies/Interests (what they’re the god/goddess of)
• Who they’re married to (if appropriate)
• Relationship status (probably “It’s complicated” but others may apply)
• Etc.
  
  
• At least five Facebook “friends.” Each friend needs to be another god, goddess, or other named mythological character from the book with a picture/symbol/icon representing him/her.
  
  
• At least three status updates based on events in the book. You may also draw a picture as if the character had uploaded a view of something that happened in the story (no pictures taken from the movie). Please try to speak in the same voice as the character. It is doubtful that Zeus would post “Yo, dawg. S’up?” (Classroom appropriate internet acronyms—lol, ftw, etc.—are fine OMG would probable by OM, Oh Myself, since they're already Gods.)
  
  
• You should have likes/comments for your posts. At least one post must have a comment thread with five or more entries. The comments should be accompanied by the picture/symbol/icon for that character.
  
  
• You may add ads, tickers, “you may also know”s, etc., for additional credit (the more it looks like a real Facebook page, the better).

More mythological information than you probably need can be found at the Theoi Project.

Deadline: Friday, January 11, 2013.