In this class, we’ve grappled with the possibilities of public writing to transform the world. We’ve examined a history of public writing as activism and its contemporary work. This final project invites you to practice dreaming toward the worlds that public writers and activists have been advocating for centuries.
This assignment asks you to time travel. You will take the position of yourself in the future. You will write a letter– or some other genre– to yourself and explore what has changed in the world and how it came to be. This assignment asks you to practice writing as a personal reflective practice and imagination as a way to engage public writing. Your assignment can either be text-based or multimodal (podcast, website, or another medium of your choice).
Purpose:
For this project, you will compose a creative piece (no more than 500 words) that dreams toward a perfect world. In your piece, you should consider:
Imagine the world you want to see in the world, describing how it came to be, and your role in it
Reflect on your own journey of learning, what did you learn, how did it change how you see and engage with the world
What advice would you give to your past self about this life?
What do you think the role of public writing will be in making this better world?
You can use these questions as a springboard, and you can challenge yourself to use images, audio, and other multimedia in this reflection/letter. You will find the readings from Gumbs and Lyiscott helpful as examples of the kinds of thinking this piece invites you to do.
Nuts and Bolts:
Your letter is due on April 28 on Google Classroom. Your composition should be at least 1-page single spaced or multimodal equivalent (podcast, website, etc.).
Grading:
Evidence For
Some Evidence For
No Evidence for
Project imagines a future and uses creative and research elements to do so
Reflective Google Form is completed
