Expressive/Cultural/Cross Curricular Pedagogy- (Journaling)

World Literature: Spring 2013 Expressive/Cultural/Cross Curricular Pedagogy- (Journaling)

Miss Denay

Your assignment for this week is to complete a one-page blog/journal entry about either your favorite literary character or author throughout history. You must discuss the best pieces of advice/ life lessons that they have given you throughout your time together. You may choose to either discuss 3 life lessons that they have given you or delve deeper into one major life lesson. If you choose to focus on one, you will have to elaborate and explain it in much more detail.

You may complete this assignment in one of two ways. You can either:  write a blog entry about your favorite character/author, or..  write a blog entry as the person you’ve chosen. If you choose to write a blog as though you were this other person, you must still find a way to include the life lessons and advice that you’ve received from them. (Hint: One way to do this could be to write an advice column in a newspaper) I will be looking for voice that is similar to the character/author you choose.

The purpose of this assignment is to have fun and to show me how well you’ve been able to engage with a text. Show off your creative and persuasive writing skills, and tell me what you’ve learned from your favorite book! Excellent Competent Emerging Clarity Conveys well your Conveys adequately your Inadequately conveys thinking, argument, thinking, argument, and your thinking, and rationale about rationale, but questions argument, and rationale. what you’ve learned. remain about what you’ve learned. Scope Either 3 Less than 3 are I am unable to lessons/pieces of discussed or the one you distinguish any advice are discussed, focused on is not advice or lessons at or 1 is discussed in discussed in enough all from your writing. great detail. detail. You mention what you’ve learned without delving deeper. Voice Your creative voice Voice is present but not The assignment doesn’t is full present and fully developed. Contains contain any distinct well developed. If traces throughout but isn’t sense of voice. Cannot you’ve chosen a consistent. detect personality. Flat character/author, affect. their voice is completely developed and clearly present in the essay. Creativity and The essay contains The essay contains traces The essay contains an Originality an admirable amount of creativity and inadequate amount of of creativity and originality, but there is creativity and originality. room for improvement. originality.

*DAPS = Deliverables, Audience, Purpose, Situation