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Local Color Project
Project Overview: This is a cross-curricular project that involves art, technical writing, oral presentation, and business skills. Students will develop and create promotional and informational media for a fictional town. The local color of the town will be revealed through the descriptions, characterization, and history of the locale.
Project Description: Students will choose, develop, and create FIVE (or more, if desired) of the following media devices:
1) a visitor guide to the town
2) a detailed map (with a key and points of interest / historical sites identified)
3) a four or five paragraph description of the history of the town
4) a fictional interview with a local leader or longtime resident of the town
5) a record of the minutes from the last town meeting (as recorded by the town secretary -- a known gossiper)
6) a time-capsule, buried long ago (with specific descriptions and explanations of each item included in the capsule)
7) a four or five paragraph description of the specific events that led to the creation of the town
8) the front page of the local newspaper
9) before and after sketches showing the landscape prior to and after the development of prominent or historical places
10) a realistic account of a controversial contest or competition (see "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" (page 679)
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