Me Project
The Me Project is a record of who you are. It is designed to help you celebrate your existence. The Me Project involves practicing various forms of writing. Through the use of color and artwork, you will organize each of your pages to represent your thoughts, feelings, and ideas.
ASSIGNMENTS:
1. Make a title page. Create a title page, which includes your name and tells something about you. Decorate your title page with a collage. Cut out words, pictures and captions that represent you and paste them on your page. Remember, you are unique and your page should reflect that.
2. Make an introduction page in the form of a Who Am I? In a complete paragraph, describe yourself including topics like physical characteristics, hobbies, interests, and goals for the future. The goal of a ‘Who Am I’ is to offer your reader enough information to guess who you are without making it too easy!
Complete your Who Am I on plain white paper with an illustration that reflects the content of your writing.
3. Write a letter to yourself. This letter must be at least one page in length and written on your own personally designed and colored letterhead. Include what would you like to remember when you are twice the age that you are now. Consider certain friends, funny incidents, the way you dressed, your dreams and desires, objects around you. Use detail and description in your letter to make your remembrances as clear as possible. Be sure to include a proper salutation and closing.
4. Who is the most interesting person you know? Yourself of course! Create a biographical poem to share what makes you so extraordinary. A biographical poem follows specific rules. Pay close attention when you are completing your poem to make sure you have included what is required for each line.
A biographical poem has 10 lines. The following is what you must have in each line.
- First name
- Four words describing you (these must be adjectives)
- Related to (son/daughter of… or brother /sister of…)
- Cares deeply about… (2 things)
- Who feels…(an emotion) when… (when you feel this emotion)
- Who needs…
- Who gives…
- Who fears…
- Who would like to see…
- Resident of…
Remember to complete a rough copy first and when you are satisfied that all your words are spelled correctly and your poem makes sense, copy it onto plain white paper. Draw a border around your poem and decorate it.
5. Complete the Getting to Know You Activity.
6. Long ago, before you or I were born, the epitaph was a very popular form of remembering a person on a tombstone. The epitaph summarized the person’s life or accomplishments. It was sometimes written by the person when he or she was still alive. Other times, it was written for the deceased by a friend. Example
Here lies Miss May O’Toole
Never mistaken for a fool
With wisdom, clarity and good intentions
She was the designer of many inventions
How would you like to be remembered? Do you have advice or a message for the world? Would you like others to remember your accomplishments, your personality, your wisdom, or perhaps your sense of humor? Create your own epitaph. Center it on your last page and draw your tombstone.
Now that you have completed all of your assignments, come up with a unique and creative way to organize them for passing in.