You have studied some of the most recognized definitions of the hero and his/her quest and demonstrated your understanding by analysing stories in terms of the heroic quest.

Now you will create your own hero and his/her quest. Your understanding of the hero and his/her quest will be demonstrated in an original scrapbook.

The Scrapbook

1. Your task is to create an original hero on a quest and present this as a folio of written and visual work that tells the hero's story. The written work will cover a range of writing styles for different purposes and audiences and written in different forms. You will find help on writing styles and their forms in the RESOURCES page as well as in your textbook The Active Look It Up! (Forrestal, Guest & Eshuys. Melbourne: Thomson Nelson, 2000)

2. You are to cover each of following styles of writing for your scrapbook:

• Personal
• Imaginative
• Persuasive
• Opinionative
• Informative

3. You will communicate your hero's story in each of the following forms of writing:

• newspaper and/or magazine articles (opinion, letters to the editor, editorial, reports, feature)
• diary entries
• journal entries
• letters (consider an exchange of letters between two or more people, presenting different perspectives)
• poems and/or songs
• interviews
• narratives

4. The collection is to be compiled into a scrapbook that anyone reading it will be able to follow the hero's life story and his/her quest.

• You will use a publishing program such as Publisher, In-Design, PageMaker or Quark to produce his scrapbook.
• The scrapbook must be enhanced with visuals using Photoshop.
• Clip art and other photographic elements for page borders, backgrounds are to be used when designing the appropriate page for each written piece.
• You are required to provide a hard copy of the scrapbook.

5. You will create a single webpage that introduces your hero. You will convert your scrapbook into a PDF file and hyperlink it to your webpage. Look at the sample.

6. At the end of the task, you will compose a self-evaluation, reflecting on this assignment, evaluating both the process and your products.