This Multigenre Research Paper has been a breath of fresh air in the stingy environment of law papers and drab articles. I love being encouraged to write things with true expression. I loved exploring my topic through different genres. I loved being cut loose from the chains that usually hold us down as writers in college.
For my genres I wrote an "I am from..." poem from the perspective of a child that is denied access to an education. I created an obituary for a child's dream of going to school. I wrote a letter from a child that had been sponsored to go to school to her sponsor. I also made a Venn diagram comparing and contrasting my life to the life of a child who does not have the opportunity to go to school. My last genre was more interactive. It's somewhat hard to describe, so I thought I would just post it up here:
Only 84% of children that are primary school age actually attend primary school. This means that approximately 1 in 7 children do not attend primary school. Often times, it is factors that are outside of the children’s control that keep them from attending school. Pick a letter, A, B, C, D, E, F, or G then go to the next page to see if you would get to go to school or not. (NO PEEKING!)
Read the life scenario that corresponds to the letter you chose. Just like you had very little control over which life you received in this activity, many children have no control over whether or not they have the opportunity to attend school. People are born into a variety of positions in life. It is often where we are born that determines what kinds of opportunities will be available to us. People do not have to live the lives they were born into, but it is much harder to break the cycle without an education.
A. You are 5 years old and you were born in Oregon, United States. You have 3 older brothers who you like to play soccer with after school. You just started kindergarten this fall and you love learning to read. When you grow up, you want to go to Oregon State University and play for their soccer team.
B. You are 8 years old and you were born in Stockholm, Sweden. You are an only child. You are in the third grade and your favorite subject in school is art. You love going to the art galleries and your dream is to one day go to Paris to study art.
C. You are 7 years old and you were born in Pakistan to a wealthy family. You have one older brother. After school your older brother helps you with your homework. Your family just got a new computer that you love playing on. You study very hard so that when you grow up you can become a computer scientist.
D. You are 9 years old and you were born in Seoul, South Korea. When your father comes home from work at night you love sharing with him everything that you learned in school that day. He is very proud of you. You want to study very hard so that when you grow up, you can be a lawyer just like him.
E. You are 10 years old and you were born in New Delhi, India. Everyday you watch the other kids in their uniforms off to school wishing you could join them. You don’t get to go because your parents keep you home to work on the small family farm. You have dreamed of becoming a doctor, but you know that your dream will never come true and you will always work your family’s farm.
F. You are 6 years old and you were born in Freiburg, Germany. You love spending time after school at the park with your friends. You are so excited because you have just started reading your first chapter book! When you grow up, you want to be an author.
G. You are 10 years old and you were born in San Miguel, Ecuador. You just started going to school when a new school was built by an organization called Free The Children. Before, your parents couldn’t afford to send you to school and your mother needed your help at home. However, after Free The Children built a new school your parents realized the importance of education. You want to go to school so you can be a teacher when you grow up.
I am excited for our experience tomorrow at Templeton. I think it will be great to have this interaction with real students. They can learn from us, and we can learn a lot from them!
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