Friday, October 11th

Independent project time! This weekend, read over the options listed below. Choose the 2 that you're most interested in and come with the titles on Tuesday. Choose projects that speak to your talents and interests.

I'll have more information and rubrics available for you on Tuesday. *If you don't come with your choices, I will assign you projects!

1. Everything Old is New Again

 -Choose a text that you read that has relevance to our current time period (current events, trends, society).

-Write a narrative filmscript using Monster as your model.

2. Everybody Talks, Everybody Talks

-Write a narrative text in the form of a children's book, using the same theme, central idea, or life story from a text you've read this year.

-Drive the action forward with well-written dialogue.

-Illustrate it yourself, with the help of another student, or with a computer application/program

3. Scene it, Did it

-Create a comic strip that depicts the most important scenes in a text you've read this year.

-Write an explanation why you chose those scenes and explain how they reveal aspects of the main character.

-Include information about how those scenes provoked (moved or made) the main character make decisions.

4. Plot it Out

-Create a poster-size or online version of a plot diagram for any text you've read this year.

-Be creative in how you illustrate your plot diagram (a mountain? A sound wave? Etc.)

5. If You Ask Me

-Write an opinion piece/editorial in response to a contemporary issue or problem in the voice of a character from a text you've read this year.

6. If You Can Speak, You Can Sing

-Choose an existing melody or compose your own to create a song, ballad, or rap dealing with a theme in a novel you've read this year.

-Include similes, metaphors, sensory details, rhythm, rhyme, etc.

7. If I Can Think it, I Can Blog it

-Write a narrative in the form of a blog from the perspective of a character in a novel you've read this year.

-Include the character's attitudes about key events in the novel, reactions to other characters, the character's opinions about contemporary issues, topics, etc.

8. My Best One-Liners

-Create a book of one-line (one sentence) summaries for a novel read this year.

-Only include elements of the plot: characters, rising and falling action, exposition, climax, setting, resolution, conflict.