For this assignment, I am asking you to write a proposal for your upcoming creative project (see the detailed instructions for that project below). Your proposal should explain what writing technique you will be working on, why you chose it, and what kind of story you plan to tell. Your proposal should also include a list of the steps you will have to take to finish the project. You should also consider if your project will require citations (if you are using other people’s intellectual property like images, music, or text) and how you will incorporate those citations into your project.

Length: 1 page double spaced. Proposal due: Thursday, 6/14.

Creative Project Assignment

In English classes we tend to focus on analysis and argumentation through papers and exams; however, there are many other ways a person can respond to and interpret a text. This creative project is your chance to explore a different mode of interpretation by imagining yourself as an author.

Your Creative Project assignment is to write a narrative related to the theme of growing up or developing personal identity using one of the techniques we've observed in our books this semester. Those include:

• A journey to significant places (including a map of the journey)
• Short but vivid descriptions of people and everyday events in a neighborhood
• A comic strip that combines images and text to tell a story
• Fantasy or supernatural elements combined with daily life
• Two main characters telling a story in alternating first-person voices
• Letters back and forth between two characters

Your creative project should be 3 pages long double spaced (or 3 pages of comic strip). It can be fiction or based on real life (yours or someone you know – with names changed if you want). You must also include a one paragraph reflection at the end that discusses which technique you picked from the list, why you picked it, and why you think it is or is not effective in telling a story now that you've tried it yourself.

due: Thursday, 6/21.