Person of the Year: Writing a Journalistic Profile Project Using Mentor Texts
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If you’re interested in having students doing some more personal writing, but not always the same personal narrative or memoir, profiling a person that they care about or admire is a great way to switch the task up and give them another angle. This writing assignment can be categorized as narrative, but also as expository, informational, or argument. And, best of all, the assignment incorporates student choice while still giving you structure and space for writing instruction.
Students will have the opportunity in this assignment to:
- Argue whether or not the person that TIME Magazine selected truly deserves "Person of the Year", and to potentially propose a counter-selection.
- Define and describe their own, personal Person of the Year
- Learn how to write a profile essay
- Access social media in a productive way by learning about an unlikely rising star in the beauty world from Mexico
WHAT DOES THIS ASSIGNMENT INCLUDE?
- A student prompt sheet: this describes what a profile is and the kind of person they can select
- A suggested outline
- A suggested rubric
- A brainstorm day slide deck for writing sprints
- A mentor text slide deck demonstrating examples from a profile published in The New York Times on a TikTok star from Mexico.
- A template for students to use and design their own magazine covers (optional) that can be used for classroom decor
- A teacher's guide including day-by-day lesson suggestions and additional resources
WHEN CAN THIS ASSIGNMENT BE USED?
This assignment is great at the end of December or at the start of the New Year. It's also wonderful to use within a fiction unit and applied to one of the characters in a story (either with true admiration or playful sarcasm!). This could also be used at the end of the school year as a way to wrap up your time together. Of course, it can be used any time of year, but those are the favorite seasonal ways of using the assignment.
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