ENG3UE Project Proposal Name:____________________________

Unit 1: Modes and Forms of Writing

For your first unit, Im going to give you a choice of a few different types of projects.
For the next two units, you will have to come up with them on your own.

Project Options:
1) Create a digital or paper text book with questions and answer keys for an
audience of your peers that teaches them how to meet the success criteria for this
unit
2) Create a magazine or website from the point of view of your favourite fictional
character or real person on his or her/favourite topic that demonstrates the success
criteria for this unit.
3) Create a variety of different types of material (posters, pamphlets, stickers,
internet memes, blog posts, letters) for a social activist campaign on an issue that
matters to you. Include pieces of writing that meet the success criteria for this unit.

In order to meet the learning goals and success criteria for this unit I would like to:

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I will demonstrate that I can. By.
identify the following literary devices and
explain how they create meaning in
poetry and prose:
Personification
Hyperbole
Onomatopoeia
Oxymoron
Paradox
Assonance

Consonance
Euphony
Alliteration
Simile
Metaphor



identify the following stylistic elements
and explain how they create meaning in
poetry and prose:
Parallel structure
Climactic order
Polysyndetic construction
Asyndetic construction
Chiasmus
Rhetorical question

identify the following rhetorical
strategies and use them to develop an
argument:
Logos
Pathos
Ethos


use the following pieces of punctuation
correctly to create emphasis:
Colon Semi-colon
Dash Ellipsis
Parenthesis


use keyhole structure
use active voice
eliminate weak verbs
use proofreading and editing
strategies to eliminate errors in
spelling, grammar, and
punctuation



Check ins:

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