Your Voice Project
This document provides an overview of the tasks and time line for completing this assignment.
Assignment Instructions
In this unit, you will learn about some of the different American experiences of individuals, families, and groups orcommunities in the second half of the twentieth century.
As you work through the lessons in this unit, you will examine your own American experience. You will complete awriting assignment that expresses or explains what being an American means to you and how America and its core values have influenced your life. You may write about your individual American experience, the experience of your family, or the experience of the group from which you derive your cultural heritage and identity. You may choose to write a poem, a short story, an article, or a memoir.
Process
You should always use a process for your writing that includes planning and drafting. To complete thisassignment, you will do the following:
- Review the assignment instructions and grading criteria thoroughly. The writing assignment you complete in this unit will be graded against a rubric that assesses the product in five categories. These categories address the purpose; ideas and content; structure and organization; language, word choice and style; and sentences and mechanics of your project.
- Read the rubric on the last page of this document. Keep the criteria listed on the rubric in mind as you complete the writing assignment.
- Define what being an American means to you and how its core values have influenced your life.
- Decide on a subject for your writing that reflects your beliefs about being an American. You may wish to focus on yourself, your family, or the group from which you derive your cultural heritage and identity.
- Identify the best format for your writing.
- Develop a plan for gathering information and organizing your opinions in the most effective way possible.
- Gather research and conduct interviews as necessary.
- Create an outline for your writing.
- Begin drafting your project, using your outline as a guide.
- Review and revise your first draft. You should try to have another person read your work and give you feedback as part of your revision process.
- Write the final draft of your project. Follow these requirements and recommendations when completing your draft
Time Line
You will complete this project over the course of this unit.
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Task
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Start
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Complete
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Print and review assignment instructions. (Lesson 1)
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Day 161
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Day 161
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Decide on a subject. (Lesson 2)
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Day 162
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Day 162
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Decide on a format and purpose for your assignment.
(Lesson 3)
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Day 163
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Day 163
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Gather research and conduct interviews as necessary.
(Lesson 4)
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Day 164
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Day 166
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Create an outline for your assignment. (Lesson 7)
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Day 167
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Day 167
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Write a first draft of your assignment. (Lesson 8)
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Day 168
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Day 168
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Complete writing and begin revisions. (Lesson 10)
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Day 170
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Day 170
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Submit your final draft for a grade. (Lesson 12)
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Day 172
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Day 172
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