Fellow teachers - I made a step-by-step guide to this project, including all my resources!
It's all right here
What this project was all about
For seven days in March 2014, A group of students in San Marcos, California had a choice.
They could:
A) Hike the Coast-to-Crest Trail, spanning 72 miles across the entire San Dieguito River Valley Watershed from Volcan Mountain to the beach at Del Mar.
B) Work with entrepreneurs, business leaders, and market experts in order to design a product and create a company to produce and sell it.
After spring break, we wrote an anthology of non-fiction pieces. Some of the pieces in this anthology are about these adventures. Some of them aren’t. That’s the thing about choosing your own adventure: once you start, you can’t predict where it will take you.
We published our anthology as a book, entitled We Chose Our Own Adventures. If you read it, you can experience the hike and get advice on how to invest your money, but you can also find out where to find the best California Burrito in North County, find out about a scandal in the world fencing, go on the run with a Ukrainian dissident, and so much more.
They could:
A) Hike the Coast-to-Crest Trail, spanning 72 miles across the entire San Dieguito River Valley Watershed from Volcan Mountain to the beach at Del Mar.
B) Work with entrepreneurs, business leaders, and market experts in order to design a product and create a company to produce and sell it.
After spring break, we wrote an anthology of non-fiction pieces. Some of the pieces in this anthology are about these adventures. Some of them aren’t. That’s the thing about choosing your own adventure: once you start, you can’t predict where it will take you.
We published our anthology as a book, entitled We Chose Our Own Adventures. If you read it, you can experience the hike and get advice on how to invest your money, but you can also find out where to find the best California Burrito in North County, find out about a scandal in the world fencing, go on the run with a Ukrainian dissident, and so much more.
Buy the book!
Photos from the book-launch party at Old California Coffee House
We officially launched We Chose Our Own Adventures with a at Old California Coffee House, featuring readings by the authors, live music, and freestyle rap. You can see photos from the event here:
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Project Documents
You can find the project sheet, as well as all the information, graphic organizers, and examples that I've provided in this folder.
If you'd like to see anything that you can't find here, including examples of student work, email me.
If you'd like to see anything that you can't find here, including examples of student work, email me.
Places to find Mentor Texts
As part of this project, every student chose a "mentor text" to study and learn from. You can find them in the Online Library of Awesome Articles.
Articles/blogs by topic
Click here if you want to write about...
Disclaimer. Most of these are blogs, and I chose them because they looked good after fairly brief inspection - however, for the most part they are not blogs I read regularly. if any of them strike you as inappropriate, please let me know!
Articles/blogs by topic
Click here if you want to write about...
- Mountain biking
- Rock climbing
- YA Books (also here)
- your life, as told through an album you love
- great food, and/or Paris
- video games
- sailing
- skateboarding (silly article about visiting skate park here), (article about skating in order to distance yourself from your odd family here) (piece comparing writing to skating here)
Disclaimer. Most of these are blogs, and I chose them because they looked good after fairly brief inspection - however, for the most part they are not blogs I read regularly. if any of them strike you as inappropriate, please let me know!