Task: You are an advocacy group whose job it is to promote a certain use or treatment of one or more animals. You will do this through the creation of a multi-genre wall display that contains a certain number of elements of differing genres. It will reflect your role, your point of view, and your intended audience. It will also reflect a specific tone about your topic. It may either state the purpose of the overall display, or require the viewers to infer that purpose from your consistent point of view and the content you display.

Requirements: You are required to have:

  • a title that helps your viewer understand the point of view(implied or stated), and your role.
  • four graphical elements consisting of both photography and graphics. The graphics might be charts, graphs, or advocacy cartoons. All graphical elements, including the photographs must be sourced. In other words, you have to get it from somewhere credible and give credit to the originator of that material.
  • four textual pieces consisting of both literature and non-fiction.
  • one or more literary elements such as a poem, anecdote, fable, fictional letter, or idiom that reflects your tone and point of view. All literary elements must be sourced. In other words, you are not being asked to write your own poem, etc., but rather find one that reflects your tone and point of view.
  • At least two non-fiction pieces such as a newspaper article, real letter, quote, or summary of magazine article. All non-fiction elements must be sourced.
  • attractiveness as a graded element. You display should be eye-catching, neat, and nearly error-free. Elements can only be hand-written or drawn if you are capable of calligraphy. In other words, if you hand-write something, sloppiness, errors, and heavy erasures can all count against you. You graphic elements cannot be hand-drawn at all.
  • In-text style sourcing included with each piece. Your teacher will explain to you what information about your source should be included within the parenthesis, and what information should be included on small forms attached to the back of your display.

Grading: The point to this project is to reflect your comprehension of various sources, and your ability to integrate more than one source into one cohesive point of view. You will also be demonstrating your ability to keep track of various sources, and give proper credit to each of them. This should also reflect on your ability to collaborate with your team members in coming up with a single persuasive message, and supporting that message in differing ways through various genres and methods. Your teacher may come up with a chart to capture each of these ideas in the form of a rubric.

Intended Role and Audience brain-storming sheet

Directions: As a class we will brainstorm a list of potential roles. For example you might suggest an organization of research scientists or farmers. We can then brainstorm a list of intended audiences or viewers such as lawmakers, investors, or the general public. We can also brainstorm a variety of persuasive messages such as allowing the year-round elimination of animals that plague your farm or the preservation of a species with no apparent value. Finally, we can brainstorm a variety of tones to choose from when developing our piece, such as anger, hopeful, sad, sarcastic, humorous, etc.

Possible Role / Intended Audience / Purpose/Persuasive Message / Tone