CYOA story types

Political Cartoon

A political cartoon is, obviously, a cartoon drawn to communicate an idea about a political or social issue, to either make a particular point or make people think. For this assignment, you would make a point about some issue/idea relevant to teen life.

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Political-Cartoon

http://www.quora.com/What-are-good-ways-to-learn-drawing-political-cartoon

Of course, you can google "political cartoons" and see many examples. Make sure if you do this assignment your IDEAS and DRAWINGS are your own.


Photo Journal

A photo journal documents some aspect of a person, event, life, etc., through photography and descriptions/explanations for each image. For this assignment, you will follow and document an aspect of WHHS life. You must have 6-10 pictures and descriptions for this assignment.

http://www.ehow.com/how_2104842_keep-photo-journal.html


Written Interview

There are a lot of people to talk to on campus-- for a lot of reasons. This assignment is a Q&A (questions and answer) session with an individual involved with WHHS or of interest to the WHHS community. You must have 10 questions minimum for this assignment.

https://thewritepractice.com/six-ways-to-ask-better-questions-in-interviews/

http://www.wikihow.com/Write-Interview-Questions


Video Interview

It's similar to the written interview, but you record and edit it. There is online software for video editing provided by the district called WeVideo. You must have 10 questions minimum for this assignment.


Campus Poll/Survey

For this assignment, you can ask relevant questions to the student body and discuss the results. You can do a verbal or online poll/survey. You must have five questions minimum for this assignment and ask at least 25 students. The students you sample MUST make sense for your questions. Ask only sophomores, for example, or only AP students. Your discussion of the results must be at least 10 sentences.

https://www.mathsisfun.com/data/survey-conducting.html

https://www.surveymonkey.com/mp/writing-survey-questions/


Comic Strip

One option is to write an actual comic strip. Ideas and images need to be your own.

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Comic-Strip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHtVJdaqdqU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0abt8AYfr8


Visual/Performing Art Piece/Event Review

Many students are involved with visual or performing arts. You can choose to highlight a student's artwork, what a class is doing, a student art exhibit, play, band or dance performance, etc. This review must be at least three paragraphs long and reflect the ideas given in the links below.

For art:
http://www.artpromotivate.com/2012/02/how-to-write-critique-of-art-tips.html

For performing arts:
https://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/PlayReview.html


Sport/Game Review

Sports are an important part of many students' lives. You can attend a game or practice and write a follow-up piece to give an account of the event. This review must be at least three paragraphs long and reflect the ideas given in the links below.

http://www.ehow.com/how_4424027_write-sports-match-recap.html

http://www.ehow.com/how_2075195_write-sports-article.html

http://sportisourstory.tumblr.com/post/54856803482/writing-match-recaps-what-to-say


Story Training Reboot

As we do more story training assignments, you are welcome to do another version of that assignment for "CYOA." You need to follow the assignment parameters given in the original assignment.


Your Own Idea

Have an idea not on this list? Talk to Mr. Brent about it.