52 Mondays Assignment

Your first assignment this fall is to use argumentation to help us get to know you a bit.  Yesterday I showed you the 52 Mondays book and had you journal about things you wish people would (or wouldn't) do.  Today, I want you to turn one of those ideas into a visual and text argument like the ones in the book.

Objectives:

• Introduce your personality, interests, and opinion to the class
• Use visual aspects to make your argument eye-catching
• Find and incorporate research that supports your argument
• Cite your sources using MLA style

Directions:

1.  Use either Power Point or Google Presentations to create two slides.  The first should be your visual argument and should include:

• an image
• a headline--what you want people to do or  not do in a quick catchy phrase)
• "The Facts"--the research behind the problem
• "Take Action Today"--what people can do to make the change
• "You Matter"--the difference one person can make

2.  The second slide should be a works cited page that lists the sources you used including your image.  If you need help citing, use the Purdue OWL to help you.

3.  Submit your slides to Turnitin.com by Friday at 8 a.m.  If you use Power Point, you can just upload like you would a Word document.  If you use Google Presentations, you'll want to go under File, Download as..., and choose PDF. Save the file somewhere you can access.  Then upload that file to Turnitin.

Click here to see what mine looks like.  Now go do your own!