A multigenre paper is a collection of different types of writing. Genre means a kind or type of something. Each group will write a multigenre paper about their book. Your report will consist of different types (genres) of writing about your selected based on information from your book, conclusions from your group discussions, and personal observations.
While you are reading, you will be recording information about your book and experimenting with genres in your discussion journal. While you are reading and discussing, as a group brainstorm your ideas using the Inspiration program or another graphic organizer. Your final paper will be a complete and thorough analysis of your book in multiple genres.
The possibilities for genres are endless. Most will be written, but some may be graphic. For example, setting could be covered with a travel brochure or magazine ad using pictures downloaded from the internet.
We will practice some genres in class at the beginning of some periods. In addition we will look at some student multigenre papers from Blending Genre, Altering Style by Tom Romano.
As you are discussing your books in Literature circles, also discuss ideas for genres. Once you have created an initial piece, see what ideas in it will lead to other types of writing that you can hyper-link to it and then to other pieces. Your final group paper will be published on a website with all of the pages of each section hyper-linked to each other. Your group paper must contain:
1. A default or index page with name of book and author, graphic depicting book, first names of all group members, and link to first page of your multigenre web.
2. An Introduction, Preface, or Forward, something that will introduce all sections of your novel
3. A Minimum of 4 genres from each group member – each group member should write one genre for each of the four sections. No genres should be repeated.