Storytelling Beyond the Pen and Keyboard

What are some roadblocks, successes, or hurtles you’ve had this semester?  Did you learn anything from them?  Why do you think they happened the way they did?  If you could go back in time, what would change?  Use a blend of text, video, songs, memes, and gifs to complete this prompt!

What are you doing for Thanksgiving break?  Describe it using varies mediums such as video, song, memes, gifs, photos, and text!

Describe a particular movie or book that you were interested in see/reading, but decided not to see it based on what someone else said about it. What was the movie/book?  What did the person say? Why did it turn you off from reading/see it?  Use a mixture of text, song, memes, photos, and/or videos to complete this prompt.

What are some of the potential topics you’ve come with or are looking into for your Analyzing and Synthesizing Opposing Arguments essay?  Why do you think they are so important or worth knowing about?  Use memes, songs, videos, and pictures to emphasize why you think it’s a topic worth writing about.

Using songs, videos, memes, and hashtags, describe the word “Freedom”.  What does it mean to you, to others, and what does it look or sound like?

Describe an important memory or event that happened at school.  It can be primary, secondary, or even college!  You can only use hashtags,pictures, memes, and gifs to describe this event or memory to us.

Imagine that you have a cousin visiting you for Thanksgiving break.  This cousin isn’t from America, and asks you during Thanksgiving dinner what ‘Freedom” is.  How do you explain the concept of ‘Freedom’ to your cousin?  What examples from our culture and history do you use?  You cannot use a regular text blog post for this entry. Instead you are to use audio files (youtube, etc.), memes, pictures, videos, news or magazine articles (attach as a weblink) and hashtags to complete this prompt.

Comp Prompt #3 Example!!

You have just won free tickets to see your favorite band! Who are they? What do they sound like? What do they look like? Do they have a particular aesthetic?  Answer the prompt using photos, audio files (or you can upload a music video from YouTube), memes, and gifs,  Don’t forget to use the hashtag #multimodalcompositionprompt3 in your hashtags, as well as use other hashtags to describe your favorite band, and why they are so important to you.

Imagine that you are a famous news reporter and you have been given the opportunity to interview a famous or historically renown person from the past.  Who would you interview?  Why do you think this famous person is so interesting and important for you audience to know about?  What questions would you ask them?  Why? How would you conduct this interview? By a radio interview?  A podcast?  Television? Documentary?  Why do you think the particular medium of interview you chose works or is effective?

Also make sure to include the hashtag #multimodalcompositionprompt1 to indicate which prompt and what class your prompt belongs to.