1. Plan to Change the World Choice Writing Pieces

2. Your Choices Community Service Project Newspaper Story
Poetry Collection
Narrative/
Conversation
All Choice Pieces are due next Thursday/ Friday!!

3. Community Service Project
You will Fill Out the Planning Pages for a Community Service Project.
Then You will Create a Poster and a Flyer/ Brochure for the project

4. What Goes on Flyers and Posters
Need to have the basic details.
A Name for your event
Where is the event?
When is the event?
Why is the event happening?
Who is the project for?
What is happening at the event?
How can they get involved and help.
Needs to get people’s attention!!
Needs to be Interesting
Needs to make them want to get involved.
Use Facts from Research to Get People’s Attention

5. News Paper Story
You are going to write a newspaper story about your problem to communicate what is going on with your problem to the rest of the world.

6. Story Requirements
The Newspaper it is going to run in (Denver Post, New York Times, USA Today, make one up if you wish)
A Headline about Your Problem
A Byline (After the headline, story is By the author)
A Dateline (Where the story takes place)
A Lead (opening your story with a couple of sentences that tell the main basic facts like Who, What, When, Where, Why, How)
At least 5 paragraphs talking about your story
A Quote from your research.
Organized in the Inverted Pyramid Fashion with your most important facts first.

7. A Sample Newspaper Story
The Fairy Tale Gazette
April 28, 2006
Bad Fall Injures Children
By M. Goose, Staff Writer
Rhymeville- It was reported by a reliable source last night that Jack and Jill Jones both fell down a slippery hill. The twelve year old twins were sent by their mother to get a bucket of water. In returning, Jack fell down, hit his head on a rock and received a slight concussion. Jill apparently tripped over Jack, and in falling down, received a skinned knee.
“I don’t know what happened,” Jill was reported as saying, “I was running home after getting the water and next thing I know, I’m flipping over Jack with water all over me hearing him say something about a broken crown.”
The two were taken to county hospital. Jill was treated and released. Jack remains in satisfactory condition and will probably be released tomorrow.

8. Poetry Collection Requirements: A Series of 3 Poems
All poems need at least 15 to 20 lines
No Haiku, Cinquain, or any other short form of poetry
Point of View: Your Poems Need to Be from the Points of View of
A Person (or Animal) who is a victim of the problem
A Person working for an organization or working on their own trying to stop the problem
Your Point of View Having Learned about the Problem
You Need at least 3 pieces of information from your research in each poem
Use Parts of Poetry like Images, Similies, Metaphors, Onomatopoeias
Try to create poems with both literal and symbolic meaning.
Again, it is a draft, but write in final copy format
Typed or with as few mistakes as possible.

9. Types of Poems You Can Use…
Free Verse
Rhyming Poetry
Ballad-
Like A Story/Song with a Repeating Chorus or Refrain
Extended Metaphors
Found Poems
Narrative Poems
Poems that tell a story…
Acrostic Poems-
Use Words that tell about your problem and each line starts with a letter to those words
Alphabet poems
Start Each line with the next letter of the alphabet.

10. Narrative/Story
You can also write a narrative/story about your problem or about a person dealing with or working on Your problem.
Your Narrative needs to include a conversation between at least two people

11. Narrative Requirements
No More than 3 Pages Long Typed
Point of View: Your Narrative Needs to Be from one of the following Points of View:
A Person (or Animal) who is a victim of the problem
A Person working for an organization or working on their own trying to stop the problem
Your Point of View Having Learned about the Problem and finding yourself in a place where that problem is happening
You Need at least 5 pieces of information from your research in your narrative
You need a clear introduction to set the stage for your narrative introducing the characters and setting you are writing about.

12. More Narrative Requirements
You Need to write a dialog or conversation into your narrative.
The Dialog needs at least two people talking to each other
Each Person needs to say at least 5 different things in the conversation?
The Conversation should include questions about the problem with answers coming from the research.
Conversation needs to use the rules of punctuation for conversations correctly.
You need a clear conclusion to your story wrapping up what happened in the story and its effect on you as though it really happened.
Again, it is a draft, but write in final copy format
Typed or with as few mistakes as possible.