Middle School Language Arts 2 Project (Grade 7)

You are a librarian for the Young Adult Department of your public library. You have been asked to develop a concept map for a novel that has also been adapted to other storytelling mediums, such as a movie or stage play. This concept map will be made available to middle school students as a study guide. It will address the story’s literary elements and the variety of mediums in which the story is told. You will also include information on comprehension tips and the best ways to express your ideas on the text’s meaning. You will create this concept map with a written summary that explains this knowledge.

You will choose your favorite story, which is also told in another storytelling medium, and use that as the basis for explaining literary elements, differences in mediums, comprehension strategies, and how to convey the meaning found in the story via a written summary.

You work as a freelance writer with a specialty in writing business plans. A client just hired you to write their business plan’s executive summary. The business plan will be based on a business idea of your choosing, and you will need to write an informative, research-based executive summary of the business.

You are a social media manager, and one of your clients is a superstar! A trendy teen magazine has asked you to write up a brief story about your client. The teen magazine wants you to write a story about something that happened in your superstar’s life that changed them. They will feature this story in an upcoming issue. They want the story to have a clear beginning, middle, and end. They also want you to incorporate descriptive details, sensory language, and dialogue to keep their readers interested.

You are a magazine editor for a prominent history magazine. The editor-in-chief has asked you to write a feature piece on a specific historical period. You will present an analysis of the historical time period and event and how it is represented in a variety of texts with different viewpoints. This feature story may include written aspects, imagery, maps, charts, etc.

Choose a historical period and locate two different types of sources related to the period and event. You will compare the two texts, discuss their use of evidence, find instances where somebody might have altered facts, and identify propaganda during the period and event.

You are the children’s museum Education Manager and have been asked to create a presentation that promotes Poetry Month. You will create a multimedia presentation based on a novel in verse or a narrative poem. This multimedia presentation will show how narrative poetry uses poetic devices and literary elements; the multimedia presentation will also include a brief review of the novel in verse.

You work as a talent agent for a celebrity (sports, music, actor, author, etc.) Several entities want your client’s business and several offers have been made. However, none of these offers are to your client’s expectations. Your client has asked you to write a general argumentative letter that can be handed out to any interested party that outlines what your client wants. You will provide factual supporting evidence that would help to justify his or her demands. You will also need to identify any counterclaims that will most likely be made by the interested parties, and have a solid rebuttal based on further evidence in support of your client’s demands.