Topic Brainstorm


For my project I think I am going to go the Portfolio route. I am interested in too many different areas to narrow my scope. I am excited to read about many different cultures and write my own stories! I love studying other cultures and will probably write a story based on a different culture for each post. Below are the four topics that have caught my eye.

I have studied abroad in Italy twice now, and my family is very Italian. Therefore, I think I would enjoy writing at least one of my stories based on Italian culture. I have found several of the Italian Popular Tales interesting! I think it would be fun to combine several of the popular tales into one story!

I had so much fun writing Trickster stories that I would like to include another one of those in my project. For this story I think I will base it off of Stories from the Congo. As I said last week, I have been very interested in that region since I recently watched a movie based in that region. I would enjoy researching this topic and learning more about the culture and using that information to write my own story!

Another region I would like to study is Jamaica! I know very little about the history of that culture and would like to learn more about it, and then write my own story! I have read a few of the Jamaica Anansi Stories and I had a blast reading them! I would like to invest more in this topic and gain more knowledge about this culture! I have never been to Jamaica, but I would love to someday with some knowledge of the nation's history and culture.

Finally, I would like to write a story based on the King Arthur unit. The first book club I was a part of we read The Once and Future King by T.H. White. I had so much fun reading that book and discussing it! We did a lot of fun projects with it and I had a blast! I would love to create some stories in the same world as that book!



This was the book cover of the book I read. Source: Wiki Images

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