Group 1: Multi-genre

I loved doing the actual mini-project on multi genre. It was fun to actually want to research something. There is a difference between an assigned topic and a topic of your choice. I can't wait until I get the opportunity to try this out with my own students. I hope that they can see the importance of expressing themselves in different way (other than essays). I know we kind of debated about this kind of assignment and giving the students so much freedom, but I think teachers don't give them enough freedom to think for themselves.

I often heard freshman from most of my professors that they were going help us mold our own way of thinking as appose to the way we were taught and expected to think. I think that this kind of exercise is important to help students to understnad they do have a mind of their own and that they do have a choice. I would caution doing this kind of asssignment with freshmens in high schools though becuase their minds are too fresh possibly, to stay on track. I would still consider letting them do the assignment but it would be in a little more guarded way with something that we have studied to guide their topics.