Extra Assignments!

 Here is the list of extra assignments to choose from:

Assignments	Degree of Difficulty
1. Write about you! That's what blogs are for. Write about your 3 favourite memories.	Easy!
2. Upload your speech! A speech is kind of like a reflective essay, so you might as well share it after your teachers have corrected the grammar.	Easy!
3. Reviews! You are allowed to review anything you want – a book, movie, video, album, game, restaurant, hotel…. Just about anything. You should have personal experience with that thing, and supply factual data to dress up your writing (Rotten Tomatoes, Amazon, IMDB, and Metacritic etc). React to opposing or supporting reviews that might add to your response. You must include a rating system. Stars, thumbs, out of ten or our of five, A- or C+ etc.	A little bit of thinking will be needed... but it's fun!
4. Poetry! We will do Diamante poems in class, but you are welcome to write other poems as well. Any kind you want - limericks, couplets, haiku, free verse! It's always nice if you include a picture.	Easy? Maybe.
5. Review a TED video of your choice, and comment on why you find it interesting. What did you learn from it? You can find TED at www.ted.com. It stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design - and is basically YouTube for smart people!	A little challenging.
6. Reflective Essay about an experience you’ve had. You should weave in the theme of a “learning experience” and come to a resolution by the end. But really it is up to you what you do - tell us a story!	Easy!
7. Creative Essay about where you’ll be in life in either 10, 15, or 20 years from now. Must be written in First Person narrative as if you are experiencing a particular day at that time.	Challenging but fun!
8. Write about your typical day at GLPS in the "second person" narrative. Using "you," you will tell us what "you" feel and think as "you" ride the elevator to the 12th floor to eat breakfast as "you" almost revive and EOP etc.	Easy!
9. A letter to your younger self. Imagine if you could send a letter to the past and have your younger self gain some wisdom for your current self.	Easy!
10. “A Book I’d Write If I Had The Time.” Tell us the plot of a book you’d love to write if you had the time. Introduce us to the story, the characters, and then take us through what would happen. I think we all have a story we’d love to write. If only we had the time! Maybe you will find the time. Now is your chance to discuss it.	Easy! Not really. Difficult?
11. An Argumentative Essay about something you want to argue about! It could be a news story you are concerned about, or maybe you want to tell the world why Dokdo is Canada's. Did I say Canada? I meant Korea. : )