MySpace+Literature+Circle+and+Author+Scrapbook

Melodi Belei

I created my own templates for this assignment because the others did not seem to allow enough space for high school English students. I wanted to give them freedom because they also know much, much more about what actually belongs on a MySpace account than I. They are MySpace natives; I am not.

At the end of the English 10 Literature Circle Units my students usually make a scrapbook for their main character. Most of the girls enjoy the assignment and some of the boys too, but most of them think it is silly and can't relate to it. I think by changing the whole premise to a MySpace type assignment, they will be more open to the idea and not feel as though they are doing something that "real men" would not necessarily do. The testosterone levels are intense!

As someone evaluating their work, I will be able to see how much they know about the characters and plot elements from the novel by the details in their assignments.

I then created the same type of assignment for an author. Students again are required to put themselves in the place of the author and to think about what they wrote, when they wrote it, and why they wrote it. I may even create a wikispace and have them post their MySpace projects to share. It's not MySpace, but it isn't a scrapbook either.

MySpace Main Character Template Rules of the Road PowerPoint MySpace Author Template