Choose Your Own Adventure in Mrs. Rice’s class

Don’t you wish you could choose how your life went? What kind of person to be, what kind of setting, if you had powers? Well, the students in Mrs. Rice’s eighth-grade class got to do just that. Create Your Own Adventure (CYOA) is a project where the students in Mrs. Rice’s class got to make Power Point stories about books that they read where you get to choose your own adventure. This was done by making many slides and hyperlinking the choices to other articles that have more choices. The students worked on this during the month of March. This is an example of what it looks like:

You are a 12 year old potato farmer that found a strange turquoise potato while farming.

Choices:

Take it home and eat it
Shoot it with your gun
Leave it there
Show it to your friend

When you click one of the choices, it takes you to a new slide:

You have shot the potato with your gun but a strange gas comes from it.

Choices:

Smell the sweet fragrance
Run away
Sell it
Kick it away

And once it’s all done, the story has multiple plot choices. Mrs. Rice had her students do this project, “So we they could experiment with plot.” Some of the students had their stories lead their reader on the path they should choose by making them go back every time they chose the wrong option, while other students wanted the reader to make their own decision on what to do. When asked what novel he created his story after, Ezra Hopoate, an eighth grader at SJHS, said, “I did mine on 39 Clues. I liked how you could switch the book up and make it you.”

Students said that they enjoyed this project and would live to do it again. “There were different plots. You could choose like A, B, C, or D. It was kinda cool,” said Nyck Cantrell, an eighth-grade student at SJHS. Any students who are interested in this should go find a student who participated and see for themselves!