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Students will create a commercial to air during the Superbowl to target a specific audience and will incorporate figurative language, imagery, and persuasive language.

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Students create digital stories about a defining moment, a message, or a lesson learned from their own lives or the life of someone they know.

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High school students publish a collection of nonfiction writing that tells family stories of growing up and coming of age.

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The students will explore the legal history of censorship as well as the current censorship laws that govern us today. They will then choose a novel from a list of banned books, a website blocked at school, a book they feel should be banned, a website they feel should be blocked, etc. and will develop an argumentative speech to either ban or not ban their chosen topic.

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Students investigate community or cultural stories and create a photo, audio, or video journal of the story that is publication quality.

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Students will be focusing on examining bias in literature and advertisements. Students will select a media/print source to research for evidence of bias and other elements of persuasive writing.  Students will create a presentation showing how bias is present in their particular media source and warning others about bias in the media.

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After studying the question, “What is a hero in today’s society?,” students created a textual and visual representation of a hero in their life. Students utilized literary devices, sensory details, and the narrative form to create a written character sketch of their hero in a heroic moment, and then represented that moment through photography.

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Students create an editorial for a famous magazine that  focuses on current world conflicts that could potentially turn into the next major war.  They will use previous history and literature as evidence to support their answer.

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Students will explore the relationships in Fitzgerald's famous novel to discover what defines each character and how the characters are similar to people today with their personalities, motivations, values, and conflicts. The students will use social media as a platform for re-creating and exploring the characters. The students will also prepare a "Lessons Learned" type of website to post on the school website that shares videos, images, thoughts inspired by Gatsby to address social issues that they have seen in their school/community.

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Students will explore their family’s history within the framework of biography and autobiography genres, creating a compiled storybook of personal narratives and a media presentation synthesizing common themes in the stories.