Through interactive writing, students work together and then independently to create invitation letters for a group of their peers and their families.

Writing gets personal when students interview family members in order to write a personal narrative about that person.

This assignment will go viral with students as they think about the meanings of words and images in public service announcements from YouTube before creating a PSA of their own.

Students take their ideas from the classroom page to the community pavement when they participate in a service-learning project based on their multimedia presentations.