Welcome back from BREAK!

1. Highs and lows
2. Pass back some papers
3. Due tomorrow: 151-185 and worksheet (extra credit opportunity w/notes)
4. Multi-genre project introduction

Multi-Genre Paper

How do we overcome adversity?

Project: 100 points 

Common Core Standards:

2 - central idea/summary: Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.

4 - clarity/coherence. Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.

Directions:

1. Using a combination of reliable resources, personal experiences, interviews, and our class text Crossing the Wire, you will create a multi-genre paper which answers the question: How do we overcome adversity?
2. You must draw from each at least once:
1. Crossing the Wire 
2. Reliable sources 
3. Personal experience/Interviews 
3. Each item (or genre) must relate back to our question: How do we overcome adversity?

List of Possible Genres:

• Journal Entries
• Personal Letter
• Greeting Card
• Inner Monologue Representing Internal Conflicts
• Classified or Personal Ads
• Personal Essay or Philosophical Questions
• Top Ten List/Glossary or Dictionary
• Poetry (write your own)
• Song Lyrics (write your own)
• Autobiographical Essay
• Contest Entry Application
• Business Letter or Correspondence/Persuasive or Advocacy Letter
• Biographical Summary
• Critique of a Published Source
• Speech or Debate
• Historical Times Context Essay
• Textbook Article
• Science Article or Report/Business Article or Report
• Lesson Plan
• Encyclopedia Article
• Short Scene from a Play with Notes for Stage Directions
• Short Scene from a Movie with Notes for Camera Shots
• Dialogue of a Conversation among Two or More People
• Short Story
• Adventure Magazine Story
• Ghost Story
• Myth, Tall Tale, or Fairy Tale
• Talk Show Interview or Panel
• Classroom Discussion
• Character Analysis or Case Study
• Comedy Routine or Parody
• Picture book
• Chart or Diagram with Explanation and Analysis
• Brochure or Newsletter
• Time Line or Chain of Events
• Map with Explanation and Analysis
• Magazine or TV Advertisement or Infomercial
• Restaurant Description and Menu
• Travel Brochure Description
• How-To or Directions Booklet
• Receipts, Applications, Deeds, Budgets or Other Documents
• Wedding, Graduation or Special Event Invitation
• Birth Certificate
• Local News Report
• Review and Poster for a Movie, Book, or TV Program
• Board Game or Trivial Pursuit with Answers and Rules
• Comic Strip or Graphic Novel excerpt
• Future News Story
• Letter to the Editor
• Newspaper or Magazine Feature/Human Interest Story
• Obituary, Eulogy or Tribute
• News Program Story or Announcement
• Tabloid Article