Task One
Your first step in this process is to figure out what kind of curation you’d like to do.
There are thousands of options, so decide what works best for you.
You can curate your year in many ways. You could create a Top 10 list of your year. You could choose a theme that encompasses your year and choose content to develop the theme. You could make a “Best Of” curation. You could make a “Recommended for You” curation that helped you through this year.
Task Two
Once you’ve decided on your focus, you will move on to finding your content. Your content can include:
You’re required to find a minimum of five pieces for your project, but you may include more.
Your own work (your art, your writing, your photos) can often make for some of the best content, but depending on how you organize your project, that may not make sense. Everyone’s project is unique.
Task Three
Write about your content. For each piece of content, write a minimum of one page discussing your choice, how it fits with your project, why it was picked as part of your curation, and any other information that shares insights about your choice.
Task Four
Find links! For each artifact, you must have an online link. You can link to videos, websites, articles, or other web sources I haven’t thought of. Your links should continue the conversation about your artifact!
Task Five
Post your content to an online source. You may create an Elink (https://elink.io) or create a Weebly (https://www.weebly.com/) or create a Wix (https://www.wix.com/). There are other curation sites you could try as well, but if you are using a different option, please show me what you’re considering before building it.
Task Six
Submit a letter to me that introduces and gives an overview of your Extended Task. It’s similar to the “Dear Reader” letter you wrote for your poetry anthology. Most students include this letter as part of their online curation so anyone that visits can understand what they’re seeing.
Questions you might consider for your letter include:
Your first step in this process is to figure out what kind of curation you’d like to do.
There are thousands of options, so decide what works best for you.
You can curate your year in many ways. You could create a Top 10 list of your year. You could choose a theme that encompasses your year and choose content to develop the theme. You could make a “Best Of” curation. You could make a “Recommended for You” curation that helped you through this year.
Task Two
Once you’ve decided on your focus, you will move on to finding your content. Your content can include:
- Images, songs, articles, poems, videos, charts, web sites, excerpts from books, audio recordings, photographs, and other ideas I have failed to include in this list!
You’re required to find a minimum of five pieces for your project, but you may include more.
Your own work (your art, your writing, your photos) can often make for some of the best content, but depending on how you organize your project, that may not make sense. Everyone’s project is unique.
Task Three
Write about your content. For each piece of content, write a minimum of one page discussing your choice, how it fits with your project, why it was picked as part of your curation, and any other information that shares insights about your choice.
Task Four
Find links! For each artifact, you must have an online link. You can link to videos, websites, articles, or other web sources I haven’t thought of. Your links should continue the conversation about your artifact!
Task Five
Post your content to an online source. You may create an Elink (https://elink.io) or create a Weebly (https://www.weebly.com/) or create a Wix (https://www.wix.com/). There are other curation sites you could try as well, but if you are using a different option, please show me what you’re considering before building it.
Task Six
Submit a letter to me that introduces and gives an overview of your Extended Task. It’s similar to the “Dear Reader” letter you wrote for your poetry anthology. Most students include this letter as part of their online curation so anyone that visits can understand what they’re seeing.
Questions you might consider for your letter include:
- What, overall, do you want to say about the year?
- What kind of curation did you decide on? Why?
- How did you go about choosing content? What was the process like?
- How did the project evolve?
- What did you find challenging?
- What did you enjoy?
- How did it all come together?
- Are you satisfied with the result?
- What was it like to reflect on your year?
- What would you have done differently?
- What would you change about the project?
- Was freshman year what you expected? What surprised you?
- Was English this year what you expected? What surprised you?
- What else do you want to say?