choose one: 1. Generational history of education: For this project, students are invited to do a generational study of the history of education that will summarize and analyze the educational experiences of four generations of people: your generation, your parent’s generation, your grandparent’s generation, and your great-grandparents. You may write about your own family’s history of education, or you can pick other people of that generation (friends, family, neighbors, teachers, etc). This will be a creative research project that asks you to blend personal interviews, family lore, online research, and what you know about the history of education from our class. International histories welcome! Students will create a google slide show and submit it. 2.Academic book review: Students will read an academic book in the history of education (about 300 pages). Students will then write a 1,000-word (4 pages) book review, similar in style to the book reviews found in academic journals. This is a formal, academic paper where students will summarize and critique the book’s central argument. Requires an original essay title, formal book citation at the top of the paper, and page numbers—see book reviews on JstorLinks to an external site. for examples. Students will also prepare a PowerPoint slide show to “teach” the book to other students who have not read it. This semester we are reading Zoë Burkholder, An African American Dilemma: A History of School Integration and Civil Rights in the North. It is available at the MSU bookstore or at the MSU library as a free e-book. Essays submitted through Turn It In, which compares your work to other student papers and all published content. 3.Write to your school district. For this project, students will write a detailed description of their experiences going through a school system. If a student went to multiple schools, they can focus on one district. Your letter will offer criticism and praise of what the school district offered you as a student. You should write about specific experiences you had in the district, but the letter should be done with the intent to inform the district about what they can do better for future generations. Students are expected to be creative in their writing, and blend personal stories family lore, online research, and what you know about the history of education from our class. Your letter should be two pages long.