Week #4 MP4--Work-in-Progress MultiGenre Project

AGENDA:

Work-in-progress-- MultiGenre Projects
I hope you are doing well. I have not heard from many of you, and you need to try to make contact so that I know you are okay (even if you are having difficulty getting work done)! I miss you and care about you. I keep checking your grades to see if you are at least getting work done for other classes.

1. This is the second week of working on your project at home by doing the writing , drawing, collecting images, creating documents, and/or taking photographs, etc. You can be so creative with this and show off all your writing abilities in different genres.

Next week (Week 5) , May 18-22, will involve presentations on Zoom.
FINAL PORTFOLIOS will be due June 8 (instructions to come)
Send Senior Coffeehouse videos to Linden Burack by May 15.

2. Please UPLOAD at least 4 items for your multigenre project by this Friday, May 15, in Google Classroom for grading this week.
I will also post a "checking in" assignment for classroom credit.
You also receive credit for attending Zoom Office Hours--Thursday, 11 am.

3. Feel free to email me with questions and concerns.
It looks like grades for this marking period will be: PD (Pass w/ Distinction, 85-100), P (65-84), INC (has not met the standards for this course). If this is a semester course for you, you may not receive 1/2 credit for it and cannot redo it in the summer.

Stay well and safe!

Week 3 MP4--Assignment #3--WORK ON PROJECT/REPETEND

AGENDA:
Work on your projects at home.  Upload text, images, "artifacts" and other elements of your work to show your progress to Google Classroom for FRIDAY, May 8.

FIND A REPETEND FOR YOUR PROJECT:

What is a Repetend?

Because multi-genre projects are unique and non-linear, they require a lot of work from a reader.  You, as a conscientious writer, do not want to let your reader get confused as they move from genre to genre. If you provide your reader with reoccurring images or phrases, or a running commentary or even a narrative or story, you will create unity that will help your reader better understand your central theme. This can be much like making sure to weave your thesis throughout a traditional essay paper. We will use a repetend to provide that link among the elements of your project.

A repetend is a repeated phrase and/or image that is used in every genre of your multigenre project.  Repetends help to connect all of the pieces and are sometimes used to convey the message of the paper.  

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Ways to incorporate repetend in your multi-genre project:

• include the same phrase, sentence, or passage on each genre page as a heading or somewhere else in the text
• include a description or design in each piece (written or graphic), placed strategically for easy recognition

• create a character and follow his/her reactions to pieces

• create a character involved somehow in each piece of writing--an ongoing little story
• create a cartoon strip at the top or bottom of each genre page that comments on the ideas presented

Repetend Used: "And the beat goes on"  "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."  Tree, extended metaphor (seed, roots, branches)  Visual: Baby footprint  "The Land of Opportunity"  "Shattering Love or Seeking Justice"

Paper Topic: Woodstock  Neil Armstrong  Alvin Ailey  Abortion  Family History Project  Capital Punishment

http://shepardacademyjuniorblockspring.weebly.com/creating-a-repetend.html

More resources:
https://www.mshogue.com/ce9/multi_genre/multigenre.htm