Assignment #1 - The Archaeologist in Fiction
First you should pick a piece of fiction to analyze. It can be a movie, comic book, novel, short story, TV program or play. Whatever you pick it should be something you have read or seen within the last month.
You will write a short (2-3) page, double spaced, typed essay describing what you read or saw. In this essay be sure to answer the following questions:
1. Describe the archaeologist(s). What did he/she (they) look like? How did she/he (they) dress and speak? (3 points)
2. Were there women in the story? If so, what roles did they have? (3 points)
3. What were the archaeologist(s) looking for, where, and why? (3 points)
4. Who opposed them and what kind of dangers did they face? (3 points)
5. How did they fare in the end? (3 points)
6. Why was it important to the story that the character be an
archaeologist?
Could some other type of occupation be appropriate? If so, which
(or
what) occupation(s)? Why? (3 points)
7. Quality of writing (2 point)
Artificial Intellegence: Students may use artificial intelligence tools, including generative AI, on this course as learning aids or to help produce assignments and tests. Please realize that AI is far from perfect. AI often produces errors of fact, irrelevant text and may plagerize the work of others. Students are ultimately accountable for the work they submit including work generated by AI. If a student uses AI, they must submit both the original AI document with the original prompts and their revision of the AI document. Students who use AI and fail to submit both required documents will recieve a 0 for the work.
Your assignment (and the AI generated document if applicable) will be due in double spaced hard copy by the next discussion session
meeting. You will also submit your assignment (or the revision of the AI document) via Turnitin in the lecture section of Brightspace by 6:00PM of the day of discussion meeting. Late assignments will be docked one point per
class-day for each day late.
The assignment is worth 20 points.
. 
MOVIES
A Month in the Country 1111 |
March or Die |
SHORT STORIES/BOOKS
| Murder in Mesopotamia- A. Christie The New Catacomb- Arthur Conan Doyle Lot No. 249- Artur Conan Doyle The Curse of the Kings- Dorothy Eden Dance Hall of the Dead- Tony Hillerman Thief of Time- Tony Hillerman The Crate- S. King Continued on the Next Rock -R.A. Lafferty Haunted Mesa- L. L'Amore Horror from the Hills- F.B. Long Motel of the Mysteries- David Macaulay |
Night Boat- Robert McCammon The Source- James Michener The Canyons of Grace- Levi S. Peterson Across a Billion Years- R. Silverburg Journey to the Center of the Earth- J.Verne The Greek Treasure The Sphinx The Roman Kid Inca Gold - Clive Cussler Mummy's Curse - Elizabeth Peters Realms of Gold - Margaret Dabble Timeline - Michael Crighton Amelia Peabody series - Elizabeth Peters |
COMICS
It is important that you use only strips or
stories from these comics that have an archaeologist in them.
| Aztec Ace Calvin and Hobbes Doctor Fate The Far Side Flash Gordon |
Golem Mummy Comics Super Boy Tin Tin https://www.cnn.com/2011/10/28/world/europe/tintin-archaeological-escapades/index.html |
TELEVISION
It is important that you use only an episode of
these
programs that had an archaeologist in it.
Isis |
Relic Hunter You Cannot Use Ancient Apocalypse |
VIDEO GAMES
It is important that you use only archaeologist not other kinds of adventurers.
Lucy's Expeditions Professor Layton Skyrim Barrow Hill: Curse of the ancient circle |
Buried in Time Any Lara Croft Game Samantha SwiftUncharted |
Archaeology and Lego 
LEGO Indiana Jones and the Mystical Gemstone