FUN IDEA FOR AUTHORS!!!
I pitch to you: doing an ELA book project on your own book. Take your book (or manuscript if you're unpublished) and fill it with sticky notes and annotations.
You could choose literally any style, but some options are:
Literary analysis essay (symbolism, motifs, literary devices, author's purpose, etc.)
Book float (Create a parade float out of a shoebox inspired by the book)
Slideshow presentation (about maybe a specific part of the book or a general summary to pitch it to the "class")
Board game (Create a board game inspired by your book! I had one of these once, a good game to base it off of is either Life or Candyland!)
Journey box (Full of "artifacts" from the book, and how each object in the box is tied to the book)
Passion project posterboard (think those foldable posterboards in a science fair- but about the book! This one is actually pretty fun ngl)
Pizza box report (you use an old pizza box and you cut up the circle to show each piece of the story- you can look it up for more info)
Alphabet book (word for each letter and how that word fits the book)
These are just the ones I could think of, but feel free to do a project that you find interesting or did during school!!
Why do this?
Well, nostalgia, mostly. That's how I came up with this idea ngl, but it's not the only reason to do it! Personally, I feel like it would be fun to do this for my own story (but that may just be as someone who loved creative ELA projects).
Think about it: your teacher telling you to find the symbolism that the author probably didn't intend. You don't have to take it seriously, you can make up all the symbolism you want out of your own story and stretch it to your heart's content.
You could do it with friends and present to each other (the "class"), send it to your former ELA teacher for funsies, I dunno, have fun? Just have fun with your book and imagine how kid-you would've felt to do a project like this over your dream story <3
