On Monday, March 15, 2010, you must submit a writing project based on Susan Beth Pfeffer’s Life as We Knew It. For this project, you will pretend that you lived through the consequences of the meteor hitting the moon on May 18 as yourself in Southeast Florida. You are a 9th grade English I Honors student at Monarch High School in Coconut Creek, Florida. On the dates listed below, you will write a journal entry in which you imagine how you might have experienced the same events as Miranda did in Pennsylvania here in Southeast Florida. You do not have to write about your own families and friends, but may change those people.

You will write a journal entry for: May 20 (2 days after the meteor hit the moon), June 10 (when the school year would normally end), August 18 (when a new school year begins), October 31, December 31 (the winter holidays), February 28 (things look like they might be getting better), and March 31 (when Miranda stops writing).

Each entry must be typewritten and cover at least one full page. You must use 1 inch margins on all sides and size 12 font using Arial, Times New Roman, Courier, or Cambria. Because you are an Honors student, you are expected to spell correctly and use reasonably correct grammar. You may not use any profanity or obscenity. However, you may write using slang or colloquialisms.

Your grade will be based on how well you create entries that reasonably portray how the events described in Life as We Knew It would play out in Southeast Florida and follow the other directions in this assignment. Assume that you survive the tsunami that hit Miami and Fort Lauderdale. You will need to carefully think about how the weather changes and other phenomena described in the novel that happen in Pennsylvania would be experienced in Southeast Florida.

Good luck!!!