Genre #3 (Choose One)

Due Tuesday, May 27

Write a personal essay about an experience related to your topic. These will be evaluated for development (narration, description, reflection) and writing (style and use of standard English and personal essay conventions).
OR
Create and/or revise a Wikipedia page (or pages) related to your topic. Make a proposal and get approval from Mr. Cook first. Then using the Wikipedia conventions create and/or revise. These will be evaluated for information and use of conventions in comparison with model Wikipedia pages.
OR
Explicate a work of art (painting, poem, etc.) related to your topic. Explain what you notice, how it works, and what it seems to mean. You have done this sort of close reading of a passage before, most recently when studying the soliloquies in Hamlet. For guidance about explicating art check out Mr. Gallagher's step four here.
OR
Write a work of short fiction dramatizing some aspect of your topic. The short fiction will be evaluate for how well the narration, description (imagery), characterization, events (plot), and command of language add up to the development of insights (a theme or themes) related to your topic.