By Melissa Page
In my Honors British Literature class, four students, Zelig Miller, Nicholas Blackburn, Luke Doppelhaur, and Will Atkinson, are building a computer from scratch using only found and donated parts. This project began during a conversation when I mentioned how I missed big desktop computers, and they said they could build one! They began planning the third week in January and have gotten so much done that they’ve already begun installing Windows. I designed a Process Essay project around their creativity where each group designs and creates something different from found or digital materials or illustrates a process or skill and then writes about the process using different writing modes from each student’s unique perspective. This is a project where we read model process essays and discuss writing techniques. We also voice, build, create, and then write.
