FINAL SUMMER POST--YOUR SUMMER READING PROJECTS

Hello! Weeks 9 & 10 were taken up by your responses to the poetry of Langston Hughes. Be ready, as the summer reading guidelines warned, to be read to present your summer reading projects due THE FIRST DAY OF THE SECOND WEEK OF CLASS, OR SEPT. 10.

Here is the assignment again, just in case:
Finally, you will be doing a hands-on project to complement either Touching Spirit Bear, Huckleberry Finn or the poems of Langston Hughes. I WANT TO LEAVE THIS PROJECT OPEN TO YOU. THE GRADING CRITERIA WILL SIMPLY BE WHETHER YOU DID IT, WHETHER YOU CAN EXPLAIN HOW IT TIES TO THE SUMMER READING AND WHETHER OR NOT THE PROJECT SHOWS EFFORT AND INGENUITY. You may wish to make a totem pole for yourself after Touching Spirit Bear. You might want to build a little model of a raft like the one in Huckleberry Finn. You might want to bring traditional African American food to school after reading Langston Hughes. You could also write an essay about the themes in Touching Spirit Bear, or you could make a little scrapbook of the symbols favored by Langston Hughes. You could make a map of the trip that Huck makes with Jim. The way you approach this project will be completely up to you; your own strengths, the reading that most piques your interest, and your own level of creativity will guide your choice. Your projects will be due on the first day of the second week of class, but I STRONGLY suggest that you complete them (unless it’s food;) before that time! You can turn them into me at any time (again, unless it’s food) before that. If you complete them early and want to post a picture, you can do that on the blog or you can send the picture or file to me and I’ll post them for you!