English 12: Stoll
Fall 2017 
Unit I Project

The Da Vincipocalypse

Driving Questions:

- How does someone living in an environment of extreme climate shift redefine or change their value systems in making life or death decisions?
- What would it look like to design, build, and live in a shelter meant to help a group of people survive in an extreme climate?

Industry Connection:
Habitat for Humanity

Project Overview:
            Students will create a crisis scenario in which an extreme climate shift has occurred and has drastically affected the landscape and the society of where they live. They will research potential climate shifts as a group and decide what climate shift they will focus on. Each group will create a survival guide and a 10 minute presentation for an audience of “survivors” that have just been thrown into this climate shift. The group presenting will also share a shelter prototype that would help its inhabitants in surviving.
 	After these presentations, students will then create actual, full-scale model shelters based off of their prototypes. Students will have the opportunity to sleep in each other’s model shelters, and then provide feedback to one another on the experience. Students will also use this experience as inspiration for their survival diaries. Each individual student will create a survival diary about living in this environment, written from the point of view of a character living amidst this crisis.

Deliverables and Due Dates
PHASE 1: How to Survive an Apocalypse
Group: Due Sept. 18th (P5/7 & P9/11); Due Sept. 19th (P2/4 & P10/12)	Individual:
	- Presentation to Survivors						- Survival Guide Chapter
	- Shelter Prototype							Due Sept. 1st (P5/7 & P9/11)
	- Survival Guide							Due Sept. 1st (P2/4 & P10/12)

PHASE 2: Experiencing the Da Vincipocalypse
Group: All Periods due Sept. 28th			Individual: TBD
	- Full Scale Model Shelter			- Survivor’s Diary

Survival Presentation Requirements
As a group, students will do a 10 minute presentation for “new survivors” that includes:
 	- A breakdown of facts about how this climate shift has affected the earth
 	 	ex: temperatures, statistics, causation
 	- A survival guide/pamphlet that includes advice about how to procure food, water, shelter, etc.
 	- A prototype shelter that suits the needs of a group of survivors
- A prototype description of the Model Shelter (explaining the significance behind its shape/layout, materials used, and why/how it benefits its inhabitants)
- [Optional] A first-person account of what it is like living in the new environment described by the group (ie: an entry from a survival diary)

Project Group Roles:

Survival Guide Designer
Suggested Skills: Good with Photoshop / Illustrator / Publisher
Deliverables: 	1) Compiling info from survival chapters into a pamphlet (ie: guide)
2) Printing four copies of guide for group presentation
Presentation Coordinator
Suggested Skills: Good with PowerPoint / Prezi / Keynote
Deliverables:	1) Compiling info from survival chapters into slideshow
2) Emailing slideshow to Stoll on day of presentation

Shelter Architect
Suggested Skills: Good with construction / building
Deliverables:	1) Meeting with Stoll @ “Habitat for
Humanity ReStore” on 9/23
2) Directing the building of the shelter and use of materials
3) Providing a shelter description that will accompany the model
Prototype Builder
Suggested Skills: Good with models / crafting
Deliverables:	1) Meeting with Stoll @ “Habitat for
Humanity ReStore” on 9/23
2) Finalizing the small-scale model for the group presentation
3) Presenting on the process and final

*Student’s will be assessed for how well they fulfilled these roles at the end of  the project, and will receive a “Habits of  Mind” grade for their collaboration*

Shelter Prototype Requirements

As a group, students will conceptualize a simple shelter prototype in response to the struggles of a group living amidst their given global crisis. Thought should be given to the design of the shelter and what additional features it provides; think about how this shelter gives protection from the particular element the group has chosen. During the presentation of the prototype, students will justify choices of structure, materials, and special features.

After the group has received feedback on their prototype (Phase 1), they will then use this feedback to build a full scale model shelter (Phase 2). The model shelter should reflect any changes that need to be made based on the critique received from the class.

On Sept. 28th, the senior class will hold an exhibition on the DVDesign campus that will display all of the finished model shelters. The event will end in an all night camp-out, where students will sleep for one night in the model shelters they have built. Students will provide feedback to the builders, and will use this night as inspiration for the Survival Diary.