### Here are some assignments you could give yourself for a sojourn into the [[world of publishing]]: 1. [[Start a blog]] or a personal website of some kind (or continue one, if you’ve already started one). <br> 2. eAchieve students can [submit your writing to Phoenix Review](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P98lWkSvwRKk7x2v-ou_dndG7zqnwVc2vZgiv7NtPFc/edit?usp=sharing). *That document is probably outdated, but ask me and I can find out about the current guidelines and deadlines.* <br> 3. [Apply for the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards](https://www.artandwriting.org/awards/). YOU CAN GET SCHOLARSHIPS with this, too! <br> 4. [[Enter a contest]](s), or submit work to a magazine, web publication, or scholarship, and report back on the experience. <br> 5. MAKE AN ANTHOLOGY — If anyone wants to take responsibility for gathering contributions from other people in this class and editing them together into some kind of collection (whether it be a print-on-demand book, website, or something else), let me know. I can help but you would be ultimately in charge of seeing it through. This could be a group project. <br> 6. Or make your own individual printed book, using any of a number of [print-on-demand services](https://duckduckgo.com/?q=print+on+demand+books). (Whether you wish to “self-publish” in the sense of offering your book for sale, on Amazon for example, is up to you.) <br> 7. Produce a [play](https://workshop.oddletters.xyz/assignments%20for%20drama.html) (recruit friends/family as actors, videographers, etc) and share in person or online. <br> 8. Make some other kind of video or audio of your work and share it. <br> 9. Contribute to a back-and-forth poem cycle for an agreed upon week (or weeks) of the semester for anyone who wants to join. The poem grows as it passes from person to person. You have to take your turn within a certain period of time or it passes to the next person (no hard feelings). *Contact me if you want help getting this going!* <br> 10. Have a “type-in” day where participants commit to typing (or writing) all day, and as the day progresses, everyone uploads their pages or fragments to a Padlet or shared doc of some kind. *If interested, let me know and I can help organize!* <br> 11. If you’re always tinkering and fiddling away but never sharing anything, maybe you just need to [[finish something]] first! <br> ---- Associated Standards: SL.11-12.1: Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on topics, texts, and issues, listening attentively, and building on others' ideas and expressing one's thinking clearly. SL.11-12.4:Present information, findings, and supporting evidence, conveying perspective, such that listeners can follow the reasoning, alternate or opposing perspectives addressed, and the organization. Intentionally utilize development, substance, and style appropriate to purpose, audience, and situation. SL.11-12.5: Make strategic use of digital media (e.g., textual, graphical, audio, visual, and interactive elements) in presentations that enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence to add interest. For a detailed rubric, look under the "Speaking & Listening" learning target in [this list of standards and rubrics](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w6D0pv6YMJc80uQGk8KxyOx3HPJxAVhsHR2PpQ4qIkg/edit#bookmark=kix.gnnrp9io9z2k).