Cranston High School West Library: Bianco - Societal Issue Narrative

For this assignment, you will be writing a fictional narrative piece surrounding a major issue in today’s society. While this is a fictional narrative, you will need to research your social issue to gain an understanding of your topic and infuse some of this research into your story along with citations and a works cited page.

In the end you will turn in the following:

• Your short story (2-3 pages)
• An annotated works cited page properly formatted with a minimum of 3 articles. 

To start, you will select an issue in today’s society that is causing conflict in your own life or among groups of people (see examples below). Write a fictional narrative about this conflict. You will need to create a fictional character involved in this conflict and develop a plot outline set in the present or near future in which this character moves from someone who struggles passively to a member who overcomes these issues. The leader can be a leader within themselves, their households, inner circle, society, etc.  Using that outline, write a narrative that shows this character’s transformation and the effect this transformation has on the conflict.

Societal issues to choose from:

• Covid 19/Living through a pandemic (elderly isolation, worker, nurse, student, parent, patient)
• Poverty or homelessness (advocate for it, victim of it, supporter)
• Identity (Gender, sexual, cultural)
• Racial and cultural issues or inequities 
• Abuses (animal, bullying)
• Prison Reform
• Pollution
• Eliminating Arts/Sports

Directions for creating a Works Cited page in MyBib

1. Create or log into your account
2. Start New Project
3. Name the Project
4. Add Citations (+Citations)

• Website

• Copy and paste URL
• Click on website result
• Try to find missing or incorrect information in website article
• Click “Save”

• Book with one Author

• Click Book Tab
• Type in ISBN number
• Click on correct title
• Click “Save”

• Chapter in a Book

• Find under “More”
• Choose “Book Chapter”
• Fill in information
• Click "Save"

• Database/E-Book articles

• Copy formatted citation from database
• Find under “More”
• Choose Write/paste
• Paste
• Click “Save”

5. When you are finished adding all citations 
6. “Download Bibliography”
7. Download to Google Drive
8. Copy and paste the Works Cited page into your paper

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