Group members: Click on your name and explore your wiki. To set up your page click on your name. Log in (password is SAS and user name is your name...not your characters) and create new page (no template needed).  The first diary will be due Friday at 5pm...I will check them and then post the next diary entry. As soon as the next entry is in you'll need to see WHO included you in their diary so you can include them.

MANDATORY: YOU must be apart in at least ONE other characters wiki.  Please be sure to make them aware by leaving a comment on their page.

Grading Criteria:

• Credibility / Realism: Are your character's actions believable to the reader? Do we understand the reasons he/she does what she does?
• Historical Accuracy: Do you include convincing and accurate historical details in your "historical fiction"
• Creativity: Are your character, your events, and your writing imaginative, full of images, drama?
• Collaboration: Are you engaged in someone elses story?

Students must create a character...it can be someone "real" or fictictions.

Character requirements: Japanese, Chinese, Foreigner who is from the book.

Diary # 2: A Knock at the Gate

Due: Friday, August 22

Length: minimum 300 words

Task: Write a letter, journal entry, or other form and express your characters point of view, as the Japanese military have started their invasion on Nanking. The requirements listed above need to be followed once again. Remember to make sure that your story makes sense as I will grade these assignments as tough as others you have had in the past.

Diary # 3 Through the Gates into Hell (should have read up to 168)

Due: Tuesday (Aug. 26th A day) or Wed (Aug. 27th B day) by midnight

Length: minimum 300words

Task: Write a letter, journal entry, or other form and express your characters point of view, as the horrors of the Rape of Nanking unfold. Remember that using pictures and movies are encouraged to help you with this project.  So far I am quite impressed with your ideas and use of the book! Keep her going!

Diary # 4: A Survivor ...

You should have finished reading your book by  the date below:

Books and Wiki Due: Monday (A DAY) and Tuesday, September 2 (B day)

Task: Write a letter, journal entry, or other form express your characters point of view, as a survivor of "The Rape of Nanking." It is now a number of years  later after Japan has surrender to the United States in WWII(up to present day). This should be an overall reflection on the event. Tie all of your loose ends together and create a conclusion. Remember that you should collaborate for the last time.

FOCUS: The pscychological effects on you since those horrific events  (additional 10 points)