Multigenre Projects or …Ologies

Please check out http://www.ologyworld.com/

You will be amazed! This is a multigenre publication at its best!

Please check out Tom Romano’s site…the father of multigenre writing:

http://www.users.muohio.edu/romanots/index.html

• Multi-Genre Writing and Genre Descriptions
• http://www.pschulze.com/forms2003/fall_2002_multigenre_webs.htm (multigenre projects)

After reading the multigenre articles and Writing Without Boundaries chapter, you should begin formulating ideas and opinions of multigenre writing and possible projects. On your blogs, respond and think about the following:

What is a multigenre project? What are the ingredients? What is your recipe for HOW you might create a MG project? WHAT TOPICS ARE YOU CONSIDERING FOR a MG PROJECT? How might you begin in your classroom? Here are a few sites you may find helpful for engaging in research with your students as well as your own research:

http://www.ivyjoy.com/rayne/kidssearch.html

(The best link to child-friendly search engines and research information; please check this out! You will be impressed)

http://www.thinkquest.org/library/ (Children create these projects!)

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html (Amazing history connections!)

Review the lists of genres in the Moulton article (p. 531) as well as others and the links to a list of genres and  possible genres.pdf . What would you add to the list? Which genres have you already taught? Which might you choose to focus on in your classroom? Think about one genre in particular that you may introduce to your students. Can you find examples of the genre to bring in to our next class (brochures, letters, etc.)?

Please view these PowerPoint Presentations of previous MG Projects!

Please check out the MGPICS PowerPoint

Other sites you may find interesting:

http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=1013

(Zines for Kids)

http://www.readwritethink.org/student_mat/index.asp

(Interactive student materials)

http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=774

(Multigenre Snowflake Bentley)

http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=892

(Grapes of Wrath)

Citing Sources (Please see this page for APA style!)

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Teachers and Students Engage in MG Research!

Rachel Lamb, 4th-grade teacher, has completed MG Projects for the past 4 years! Check out her site:

Student Invitation and Assignment

Personal Project

Student Projects

Kelly Beckley-Former 1st-grade teacher created her MG Project on Community Helpers. She combined the “-ology” format and Amelia’s Notebook. Check out her Blog: http://kellybeckley.wordpress.com/multi-genre-assignment/

Kristen Wahl, a 3rd-grade teacher created her own MG Project on Walt Disney. In her own words:

“Following the completion of my multigenre project, I incorporated this idea into my own classroom.  My third grade students completed a research project on a famous American.   Each student designed a poster with different genres of writing including a biography, timeline, pictures and captions, and a graphic organizer that described his or her accomplishments.  My students enjoyed this research project and the freedom to research topics that they found interesting.  They gained a lot of knowledge from this project and became familiar with the different genres of writing that the world has to offer.”

Artifact_Five_Multigenre_Project_coverpage (Student Invitation and Rubric)

Multigenre Project Picture 1 (Kristen’s Project)

Multigenre Project Picture 2

Please view Cher Wheeler’s Classroom Web site where she created a Webquest for her students as they engaged in their MG project:

http://web2.burke.k12.nc.us/blogs/cwheeler/social-studies/civil-rights-webquest/

Maria Blevins Example-Multigenre Memoir