Personal and Social Responsibility
Summary Explanation of Assignments
Here is a quick overview of the assignments for this unit. However, be sure you read over the specific assignment instructions that follow for each one. Review the marking rubrics for the assignments before you start.
ASSIGNMENT 1: Newspaper Layout
Develop your critical viewing and reading skills by understanding how a newspaper is laid out. This helps you easily locate the information you're looking for. Understanding the structure of news stories helps you quickly get the amount of information you need.
ASSIGNMENT 2: Website Writing
Writing for the web means being really concise and formatting correctly. People tend to skim rather than read word-for-word, so it is important that the information is formatted for reading ease. Using images and headings help enhance the meaning to your text.
ASSIGNMENT 3: Infographic
You've been reading and writing on different text formats so now it is time to evaluate and then create your own visual representation of information. Read about "infographics".
ASSIGNMENT 4: Ad Analysis
Choose an ad and analyze it based on its claim, support, images, words, and audience. You will need to submit a copy of your ad so be wise as to your choice.
ASSIGNMENT 5: Response FORUM
Go through the 3 Grammar Resources listed under Course Resources. These sites are from an online Grammar textbook called The Bare Essentials. There are examples, practice exercises, and practice tests.
Do the practice tests in Unit 1 (WORDS) and Unit 4 (PUNCTUATION). If you are not achieving 100% on these tests, review the lesson in the EXAMPLES and the do some practice EXERCISES to review.
In this forum, comment on which of the tests you found easiest. Which one was most difficult? Was there a concept in these practice tests that was unfamiliar to you? How might you begin to apply these learning lessons into your own writing? Can you see where you might use some of these conventions of language? Provide a discussion of your results and their applications into your creative writing.
ASSIGNMENT 6: PROJECT: E-Zine
Read some example E-Zines and then create your own on a social issue you would enjoy learning about and supporting.