Research Journal

#2

After a lot of help from the class and a lot of digging, I am going to pick a “Choose your own adventure” genre. Stemming from the new movie on Netflix, Bandersnatch, I got the idea from asking my sister something she thought would create a cool spin on the project. With a genre like that, the reader makes choices within the story that puts them on a different path. For example, the reader, who is the adventurer, comes across a creature of sorts. The writer of the book gives the reader two or more options as to what he/she would like to do with the creature. Each option will point the reader to a different place in the book to continue reading. Say you, as the reader, chooses to tame the creature the book would then tell you to turn to pages xx-xx to continue the journey. The hope is that the reader picks the “correct” path that leads them to one of the few endings. By doing so the reader picks a path that they want, they pick the adventure that they feel should happen, rather than having the story already laid out for them. I think this works really well with the theme of the class. By incorporating my own beliefs this helps show the students what a social democracy can create. The idea of the book, and picking their own adventure helps show what it would be like if students could speak up and pick an educational path that works for them. Yes, the endings are different but the student got to choose what works for them rather than someone prewriting the story on their behalf. The thing I think I am most nervous about it making sure my beliefs are nestled in ever storyline. I am also curious to see how many endings I will get to, or if I will give the illusion that there is more to give the idea of the genre, but limit myself to two so that the pieces I have are really strong.