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Independent Reading Project Creating a Museum of accompaniment Literature1. Problem Statement In preparation for the Advanced organisation Literature and Composition exam, high school students must strike many another(prenominal) kinds of literature during the year-long course to familiarize themselves with different time periods, movements, philosophies, and genres. Advanced lieu students must learn to think critically, and be ready to find, analyze, and express literary connections through written analysis. The biggest challenge of teaching and learning Advanced stead English is the difficulty covering the entire scope of literature in two semesters. Twentieth century literature often gets neglected. The pace of the class can also limit the creativity of lesson planning and evaluation. Many teachers confide heavily on lecture, discussion, and a traditional analysis paper. To add more or less variety to traditional teaching and learning strategies, a teacher superpowe r design an independent fuddle where students work in teams and focus collaboratively on a single novel from the twentieth century. Each team would read a selected book and work together to create artifacts that would be shargond out with the other teams. Through collaborative work and sharing, students would be able to stove the concepts and connections of several works of literature. The project outlined in section 5 will target area twentieth century literature. 2. Target Audience The target audience is two sections of the Advanced Placement English Class. There are approximately 24 students in each class. These students are in their final examination year of high school at St. Pius X Catholic gritty School. The classes are coed, ranging in ages between 17-18 years old. The... ...to create.7. Works CitedBlumenfeld, P. C., Solloway, E., Marx, R. W., Krajcik, J. S., Guzdial, M., & Palincsar, A. (1991). Motivating projectbased learning Sustaining the doing, supporting t he learning. Educational Psychologist, 26(3 & 4), 369398. Available October 17, 2002, from overlord evolution Collection database http//search.epnet.comTurner, J., & Paris, S. G. (1995). How literacy tasks influence childrens motivation for literacy. The Reading Teacher, 48(8), 662673. Available October 17, 2002, from Professional Database Collection database http//search.epnet.com/Wang, S.K., & Han, S. (2001). Six cs of motivation. In M. Orey (Ed.), Learning, teaching, & technology. Retrieved September 15, 2002, from University of Georgia, Dept. of instructional Technology Web site http//itstudio.coe.uga.edu/ebook/6csmotivation.htm