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“A Collectibles Project: Engaging Students in Authentic Multimodal Research and Writing” by Karen E. Moynihan in NCTE’s //English Journal//, September 2007.
 * Orchid Thief Project – **

The project uses Susan Orlean’s nonfiction text, //The Orchid Thief//, as a model for how writers/researchers immerse themselves in the world they write about. The teacher, Karen Moynihan, describes the project she used with high school students who created multimodal projects after selecting collectibles they wished to research.

Clearly, this is a writing/research project that could easily work in a variety of content areas beyond the English classroom. The teacher’s description guides you through the various decisions she made and the processes she organized for her students as they investigated their collectible topic and created their presentations.

// From the box at the end of the article..... // Moynihan challenges students to investigate familiar and unknown collectibles and then to share their research results with others. “Literary Scrapbooks Online: An Electronic Reader-Response Project” explains how to create an online scrapbook. Using Web resources, students capture “scraps” of information about a piece of literature and then create a scrapbook using PowerPoint or other presentation software to share their online scrapbook with the class. During their presentation, students defend their choice of scrapbook entries, explaining the importance of the entry to the understanding of the topic. This lesson focuses on a piece of literature, but it can easily be adapted to share all kinds of research. []

//Other resources related to the nonfiction text// – //__The Orchid Thief__// [] author Susan Orlean discusses her book and the film //Adaptation­,// which was loosely based on her book. __[] __ Wikipedia link

[] Author’s website