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Imagine crafting powerful stories while collaborating with a published author! Or picture yourself analyzing literature alongside an editor or journalist. If you’re excited about using your reading and writing skills in real-world careers, our VLACS Projects are the perfect fit for you!
This engaging learning pathway allows students to explore various career fields while mastering key concepts and skills. For each competency, you can choose to complete a pre-designed project that simulates real-life career tasks or create your own unique learning experience. Regardless of your choice, you’ll engage in thorough research and apply what you learn to authentic career scenarios.
With the pre-designed projects, you’ll tackle real-world tasks that align with each competency. If you decide to design your own experience, you’ll collaborate with your instructor and a mentor to design and complete meaningful career tasks that demonstrate your understanding. We have partnered with hundreds of mentors you can work with if you choose to design your own experience. Check out our Career Mentor Catalog here.
Take a look at the competency statements and pre-designed options below. We’re excited to support you on this exciting and open-ended learning adventure!
Note: This is a project-based course. If you’re looking for a traditional format, please return to the learning catalog and select the course.
Projects
Literary Agent
Competency: Fundamentals of Fiction
You are a literary agent who is dedicated to discovering and supporting authors while helping to shape compelling narratives that captivate readers. Your role involves understanding the fundamentals of fiction to evaluate manuscripts, provide editorial feedback, and pitch stories to publishers, which will require an understanding of the fundamentals of fiction.
You will create a manuscript evaluation guide that will explain figurative language, describe expressive poetry, and explain storytelling techniques.
Philosophical Counselor
Competency: Coming-of-Age Literature
You are a philosophical counselor who guides individuals through personal growth and self-discovery by exploring literature and philosophy. Your role involves analyzing narratives that reflect human development and transformation, which will require an understanding of coming-of-age.
You will create a reflective counseling resource that will summarize universal themes, explain parallel structure, and create a multimedia presentation.
Communications Manager
Competency: Writing with Purpose
You are a communications manager who is responsible for crafting clear and compelling messages that inform and engage diverse audiences. Your role involves developing impactful content and ensuring accuracy in information dissemination, which will require an understanding of writing with purpose.
You will create a professional communication strategy guide that will summarize nonfiction elements, describe nonfiction writing, explain research in nonfiction, and create an expository essay.
Conservation Advocate
Competency: The Argument
You are a conservation advocate who is dedicated to promoting environmental awareness and influencing policy through persuasive communication. Your role involves crafting compelling messages to support conservation efforts, which will require an understanding of the argument.
You will create a persuasive advocacy campaign that will explain rhetoric, summarize argumentative structure, and create an argument.
Book Publicist
Competency: Elements of Literature
You are a book publicist who is responsible for promoting literature and engaging audiences by highlighting key elements of storytelling. Your role involves crafting compelling narratives to market books effectively, which will require an understanding of elements of literature.
You will create a promotional book campaign that will explain literary devices, describe language choice, and summarize Shakespearean literature.
Scriptwriter
Competency: The Narrative
You are a scriptwriter who is responsible for crafting compelling stories that engage audiences through dialogue, structure, and character development. Your role involves developing scripts that bring narratives to life, which will require an understanding of the narrative.
You will create a script draft that will describe narrative elements, summarize a narrative plot, and create a narrative story.
Competencies
Coming of Age Literature
Students will demonstrate an understanding of coming of age literature by summarizing universal themes, explaining parallel structure, and creating a multimedia presentation.
Fundamentals of Fiction
Students will demonstrate an understanding of the fundamentals of fiction by explaining figurative language, describing expressive poetry, and explaining storytelling techniques.
Writing with Purpose
Students will demonstrate an understanding of writing with purpose by summarizing nonfiction elements, describing nonfiction writing, explaining research in nonfiction, and creating an expository essay.
Elements of Literature
Students will demonstrate an understanding of the elements of literature by explaining literary devices, describing language choice, and summarizing Shakespearean literature.
The Argument
Students will demonstrate an understanding of the argument by explaining rhetoric, summarizing argumentative structure, and creating an argument.
The Narrative
Students will demonstrate an understanding of the narrative by describing narrative elements, summarizing a narrative plot, and creating a narrative story.