“What A Character” and “Explore the Arts” both show us more examples of how to encourage creativity and enhance writing.  While some students may initially balk at the idea of creating characters or adding art to their MGRP, I think that both can be done in an interesting, entertaining way that will motivate students to use these crafts in their writing and presentations.

          While I feel that “Show, Don’t Tell” and create-a-character may be a bit challenging for some students, I do like the idea of exploring both as a class discussions and seeing how the students react.  “Seedfolks” gives some great material for character assessment.  The class character lesson, in particular, seems like something that would be fun to do and allow for a lot of creative input.  There are so many aspects to creative writing, and these definitely give students more outlets to express themselves.  While I can see how they contribute to MGRPs, I think I would be more inclined to include these exercises in their craft writing journals, though. 

          Adding an artistic side to their presentations opens up such a huge opportunity to allow creative expression.  Once they’ve finished their research and writing, why not encourage them to add some pizzazz or "character" to their presentation?  I agree with the author that the real-world expects more than just the reading of a report, and considering that they’ve supposedly spent months learning all they can about a particular subject, the students will probably have several ideas of things they can add to the sharing of their topic.  It gives the presentation more of a show-and-tell aspect, which most students tend to be enthusiastic about. 

          All of this does bring to mind once again, though, just how much time are the students able to devote to this project?  It appears that there are many ways to add to the MGRP if time is not an issue.