Creative Project Presentation List

The following list contains a few topic ideas that you can use for your creative project. If you do not like any of these options on the list, you can create your own with prior approval of me. Keep in mind that your project needs to be a minimum of three hours of work for an A as well as keeping a detailed work log. Your work should include the date and time that you worked on your project, and a good size paragraph explaining what you did during this time.

• Scene performance: select three scenes and record them using Youtube or create an I-Movie or use Windows Movie maker. I must see the video BEFORE you present to the class (See Digital Storytelling Rubric).
• Create your own puppet show (See Puppet Show Rubric).
  

• Research the author of the story. Did anything you learn about the author help you better understand the story? Does it parallel his/her life? (See Research Rubric).
  

• Make a new book cover for the story. You should include a summary of the story, at least five reviews from people who have read the story, and at least one colored illustration (See Book Jacket Rubric).
  

• Create a mural, collage or find clip art or images from Flickr or Creative Commons that represent characters, scenes, themes, symbols from the story and explain the importance of each (See Collage Rubric).
  

• Create a blog that talks about important scenes, characters, happenings within the book and share it with the class (See Web Design Rubric).
  

• Create your own podcast/radio show that deals with the story. Must view before presentation.
  

• Write an exchange of letters between a major character and one other in the story. Have them discuss a common topic. Remember: Each character must remain consistent with his/her established character (See Writing Letter Rubric).
  

• What if? Speculate what would happen if certain events discussed in the novel had happened differently. Rewrite the ending (See Research Writing Rubric).
  

• Create a sequel to the novel (See Research Rubric).
  

• Update. If the characters lived now, what would the character be doing? How would they survive, and how would their lives be similar or different? (See Research Rubric).
  

• Write the script for a 'Talk Show" and videotape it to show to the class. Must see prior to presentation. (See Talk Show Rubric).
  

• Write several diary entries reflecting a day in the life of a character from the story (See Letter Writing Rubric).
  

• Describe a character in the story by explaining how they would be or how they would be treated in modern day society (See Research Rubric).
  

• Write a local newspaper account of a certain episode (See Newspaper Rubric).
  

• Pick an episode from the story, making it into a graphic novel or comic strip with appropriate captions and bubbles of dialogue and thoughts (See Comic Strip Rubric).
  

• Choose your own topic with prior approval of me.