Projects:
Project 1
Pick six places you will visit for your walking tour. You should visit those places you do not remember well or you should
visit places in general in order to stir up your memories.
For this project, you will identify six places and write about your relationship to those places.
Places may include:
Streets
Stadiums
Parks
Abandoned buildings
Shops
Schools
Places of worship
Your writing will reflect your relationship to each place. Ways to write about a place include:
1. Anecdotes (what happened to you there, or a story you remember about this place even if you never were there)
2. Family history
3. A feeling or emotional bond
4. An accidental encounter
5. Ownership
6. Loss
7. Proximity to your residence
8. Important passage/rite occurred there
9. Other
Divide your project into headed entries. You do not need transition from entry to entry, but you can work to create transitions. They will be helpful to you for the next two projects.
Your project consists of six seperate entries on six seperate places.
You may include images as well.
Length: 1,500 words
Project 2
Now that you have established your personal relationship to these places, research the
Cultural
Social
Historical
Political
And other non-personal relationships that exist. Your research will come from:
1.The library: (books, magazines, newspapers, archives)
2.Online: (websites, portals)
3.Interviews: (optional, but you can also interview people who live at or near these places, who work in them, who are associated with them).
4. Media: Advertisements, brochures, catalogs, flyers, newsletters, commercials, videos, films, songs.
Your research cannot only be online. You must have a balance of sources. You must use the library.
Put your work on the Web using text and images. Make the first page of your work index.html.
Length 2,000 words
Project 3
Combine the work you’ve done in the first two projects in order to produce a narrative
of you walking the city. For the final project, you will use work you’ve already done and in addition you will:
1. Synthesize this work into a walking narrative
2. Incorporate your research and personal experience into the narrative
3. Visit the sites you have written about
4. Take photographs of the sites
5. Present your work in a 2500 word document posted on the Web. Use images and text; hyperlinks should connect your pages.
