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.
