Multigenre Project

For Nancy Mack's Writing Workshop class, I was assigned a folklore multigenre project. I had to do interviews and research on the stories of others and write different genre pieces, such as a journal entry, a newspaper article, a poem, a short story, etc., to compose one whole project. This type of project is a wonderful alternative to the boring, dry, painful research paper. Instead of forcing students to write about boring topics they don't care about, with the multigenre project students can choose topics that are meaningful and relevant to their lives. It also makes writing the research paper more interesting and creative with the different genres included. Students are still doing what they would be doing with a regular research paper (researching, interviewing, citing, taking notes, checking for grammar, punctuation etc.), but are able to approach it in a more interesting way.

I decided to write about the stories of my dear friend Michael Klenk, who passed away in December of 2008. I worked on this project starting in January, right after he passed away. It was hard to do, but fun at the same time. Learning more about his life by interviewing his mom and dad was so inspiring. I miss Michael so much. He was an amazing friend and person. I thought I would share some of the pieces I wrote for the project in the notes section on my profile.