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ENG3U Culminating Assignment

This document outlines the steps for a grade 11 culminating assignment on investigating a current event relating to justice. Students must choose a current issue, research it through reading various sources, narrow their focus to a specific topic and thesis statement, collect relevant texts in different media formats to reflect their theme, create an annotated bibliography for five sources, and develop a multimedia essay presenting their thesis using text and multimedia elements.

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ENG3U Culminating Assignment

This document outlines the steps for a grade 11 culminating assignment on investigating a current event relating to justice. Students must choose a current issue, research it through reading various sources, narrow their focus to a specific topic and thesis statement, collect relevant texts in different media formats to reflect their theme, create an annotated bibliography for five sources, and develop a multimedia essay presenting their thesis using text and multimedia elements.

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Grade 11 University Level English Culminating Assignment:

“All the Power to All the People”: A Multimedia Essay

For the Independent Study Unit (ISU) in this course, you will be required to investigate a current
event of your choice within the broader topic of justice as it develops over the span of the
course. You will engage critically with the topic(s) and prepare a portfolio that demonstrates
your understanding and evaluation of the issue(s) and your ability to apply skills to new contexts
and communicate ideas effectively.

Step 1: Choose a current event or issue that relates to justice

Un/fortunately so much has happened in the past few months that choosing an issue that
interests you shouldn’t be difficult: COVID-19, police brutality, climate change, mental health,
the American election, detention of immigrants, LGBTQ+ rights, geopolitical relations, and
education in Ontario, to name a few. Choose one that is near and dear to your heart, and get
ready to really delve in!

Step 2: Read about it

This step is more informal but essential. You should read as many articles as you can from
different sources in order to get a broader and deeper understanding of your issue. This will also
help you to narrow your focus; once you know more about your issue, you’ll want to find a “topic
within a topic” to focus on. For example, you might want to look at the impact of COVID-19 on
BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour), or defunding the police, or the NBA and
BLM, or equity issues in education, or wildfires, and so on.

Please keep a record of the articles you read, videos you watch, etc. You won’t have to submit
this list, but you will need to remember where you found certain information and perspectives as
you move forward.

Step 3: Narrow your focus

i) Find THREE long-form articles about your issue

Long-form journalism is a branch of journalism dedicated to longer articles with larger amounts
of content (typically 1,000-20,000 words). Some sites that are good for these types of articles
include the New York Times, The Walrus, The Atlantic, Esquire, The New Yorker, and
Maclean’s. Occasionally a daily newspaper like The Toronto Star will have longer pieces that
would be appropriate. A long-form article will both inform you of developments (like a standard
news article) and also provide commentary from multiple sources and perspectives (like an
editorial). Remember to cite these sources as you will have to submit them with your package.

ii) Narrow down your topic(s) further into a thesis statement

Now that you know a lot about your topic develop a clear and sophisticated opinion about it that
is communicated concisely in 1-2 sentences.

Example: “Given the historical and systemic oppression in policing, our over-reliance on law
enforcement, and current evidence that mere reform is not working, police departments must be
defunded and resources redistributed to other social services that help people stay safe and
protected.”

Step 4: Collect texts that reflect your theme(s)

You are required to find the following items, which will eventually be on display in your final
product:

• 1 poem or song
• 1 short story/children’s story/graphic text
• 2 films (1 fiction, 1 non-fiction (documentary))
• 1 personal essay/memoir/op-ed
• 3 graphics (1 photo, 1 political cartoon, 1 other)
• 3 long-form articles (you found these already in Step 3)

Step 5: Annotated Bibliography

Develop an Annotated Bibliography for FIVE of the resources found in Step 4, which will
encourage you to think about and articulate your reasoning for choosing them. We will go over
what exactly to do here.

Step 6: Create the Multimedia Essay

A multimedia essay combines textual content and multimedia elements to create a unique and
inventive version of an essay to share with others. You will use textual material from Steps 1-5
and multimedia elements such as sound, layout, video, images, web-quests, etc., to create a
unique version of an essay to share with your classmates. In essence, you will be presenting
and developing your thesis statement (from Step 3.2) in multimedia form.

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