Now you are ready to choose genre types of your own.  Genre 3 was a research paper on your author, including an analysis of one of the author's works. After you select an author and work for the paper, choose three more creative genre to present more information on the decade, on the author, on his/her writing, or on a combination of these. 

For example, if you choose Hemingway as the author for your paper, you might want to do one genre on the Italian front in WWI, which is the setting for his novel, A Farewell to Arms, and which is also where Hemingway himself worked as an ambulance driver and was wounded. To do so, you might draw a map of the place where Hemingway was wounded and where he was hospitalized. In a similar vein, you might pretend you are Hemingway and write a letter home.

Here is a list of genres that you might choose (you are not limited to these ideas):

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	Autobiography
	Banner
	Biographical sketch
	Birth announcement
	Blueprints
	Board game
	Book cover
	Brochure
	Button
	Carving
	CD cover
	Chart
	Children's story or fairy tale
	Choral reading
	Coat of Arms
	Collage
	Collection
	Comic strip
	Commemorative stamp (use color)
	Computer game
	Costume design
	Dance
	Diagram
	Drama
	Dramatic reading
	Essay
	Etching
	Experiment
	Eyewitness report
	Fable
	Family tree
	Flags (sewn)
	Floor plan
	Flowchart
	Formal invitation to an important event
	Graph
	Greeting card
	Humorous story (oral or written)
	Illustrations
	Journal or diary
	Last will and testament
	Letters (real or imaginary)
	Logo
	Lyrics
	Machine (designed by you)
	Magazine article
	Map (draw and use color)
	Mock trial
	Model
	Mural
	Needlework
	Newsletter (created by you)
	Newspaper article or editorial (written by you)
	News report on video (use props and act like a real reporter)
	Obituary
	Painting
	Pamphlet
	Passport
	Performance
	Photo essay
	Picture story
	Poems (written by you in author's style or about author or period)
	Pop-up book
	Portrait
	Poster
	Power-Point presentation
	Press conference (you'll have to get others to help you)
	Puppet show
	Radio play (you can get others to help you act it out)
	Rap
	Recipe book
	Resume
	Road map
	Schedule
	Scrapbook
	Script
	Sculpture
	Sermon
	Short story
	Signs
	Slideshow
	Speech (given to class or recorded)
	Sports story with pictures
	Songs written by you (and performed by you, if possible)
	Tall tale
	Tape essay or documentary
	Three-sided display
	Timeline
	Toy (made by you)
	Travelogue
	Treasure box
	Video
	Web page

If you want, you may incorporate several genres into one. For example, if you want to do a map, a poem, and a timeline within a PowerPoint presentation, you may do so. Just make sure they require the time that three genre would typically require. If you are unsure, ask your teacher. You final grade will reflect the time you spent creating the different genre.

After you select the genre for your author project and three more, you will be asked to present your research and genres to the class in an oral presentation. 

Use your creativity and have fun.