Assignments
In this course, I have multiple assignments that are very important to my audience as well as myself. The three main assignments are: Twitterive, Oral History, and Collaborative Research Project (with Lia Dunn). The final assignment is my reflective letter describing my semester and how I handled each assignment.
Twitterive: The purpose of my narrative is to relive memories from my mom's best friend Carmen. My favorite memory was how she connected Christmas to my family and me. Carmen was a gift to us because she would always help with anything we needed. In this case, it was helping Christmas special every year. It would all start by Carmen calling me Christmas eve at midnight to tell me she's coming over to help me put the presents out under the tree while my siblings were asleep. We had to go into my closet where the presents were hidden. Even though my parents were home, it was our tradition. Then Christmas morning she would arrive at my house for about a half hour and enjoy her presence. She was a very big part of my family and like a second mother to me. Unfortunately, about two years ago, she passed away from brain cancer. I sometimes wish I could of had more time with her, but that's something you never get back. I might have known her for 20 years, but she will always be in my heart. By doing this twitterive, it helps me remember why she was so special in my life through a letter I wrote to her as well as photos and videos.
Oral History: The oral history project is much different than just writing a narrative. This assignment allows us to go out and interview someone who can help your group with a food related topic. In my case, it's how school lunches are compared to McDonald's. Within this assignment, I interviewed a close family friend of mine who has worked as a lunch lady at Osage Elementary. Through certain interview questions, she helped my group and me collect a great amount of data to understand more in depth about how healthy school lunches are.
Collaborative Research Project: This project will revert back to the Oral History assignment. The research question my group and I looked at was the health comparisons of school lunches to McDonalds. My group will use the Oral History interview as a source and find a total of ten sources to back it up with. The group we use We have attached an annotated bibliography for the project.
Twitterive: The purpose of my narrative is to relive memories from my mom's best friend Carmen. My favorite memory was how she connected Christmas to my family and me. Carmen was a gift to us because she would always help with anything we needed. In this case, it was helping Christmas special every year. It would all start by Carmen calling me Christmas eve at midnight to tell me she's coming over to help me put the presents out under the tree while my siblings were asleep. We had to go into my closet where the presents were hidden. Even though my parents were home, it was our tradition. Then Christmas morning she would arrive at my house for about a half hour and enjoy her presence. She was a very big part of my family and like a second mother to me. Unfortunately, about two years ago, she passed away from brain cancer. I sometimes wish I could of had more time with her, but that's something you never get back. I might have known her for 20 years, but she will always be in my heart. By doing this twitterive, it helps me remember why she was so special in my life through a letter I wrote to her as well as photos and videos.
Oral History: The oral history project is much different than just writing a narrative. This assignment allows us to go out and interview someone who can help your group with a food related topic. In my case, it's how school lunches are compared to McDonald's. Within this assignment, I interviewed a close family friend of mine who has worked as a lunch lady at Osage Elementary. Through certain interview questions, she helped my group and me collect a great amount of data to understand more in depth about how healthy school lunches are.
Collaborative Research Project: This project will revert back to the Oral History assignment. The research question my group and I looked at was the health comparisons of school lunches to McDonalds. My group will use the Oral History interview as a source and find a total of ten sources to back it up with. The group we use We have attached an annotated bibliography for the project.