RAFT

**RAFT Assignment**

 * R ole of the Writer - Who are you as the writer? Are you Daniel Shays? A student? A homeless person? An auto mechanic? The endangered snail darter?
 * A udience - To whom are you writing? Is your audience the Canadian people? A friend? Your teacher? Readers of a newspaper? A local bank?
 * F ormat - What form will the writing take? Is it a letter? A classified ad? A speech? A poem?
 * T opic - What's the subject or the point of this piece? Is it to calm down your fiery rebellious friend? To plead for justice and debt relief? To call for stricter regulations on corporations?

Here are some possible ideas for your RAFT! You can also add more ideas in the blank lines to help your classmates! Variety will be great and helpful to our readers. [|Google Search Results] ||
 * = ==**ROLE**== ||  ||= ==**AUDIENCE**== ||   ||= ==FORMAT== ||   ||= ==TOPIC== ||
 * Nathaniel Bacon ||  || The poor frontiersmen who wanted protection. ||   || A speech ||   || A peptalk before burning Jamestown. ||
 * One of the OWS 99% ||  || Anyone in the world - the blogger is just trying to be heard ||   || A blog post ||   || Use the style of the [|"We Are the 99 Percent"]blog. ||
 * President of Cisco ||  || Stockholders ||   || Letter ||   || Resignation after 15 years with the company ||
 * News Reporter ||  || those watching TV news ||   || Newscast ||   || A videotaped news story describing any one of the rebellions. ||
 * A commentator ||  || Your newspaper audience ||   || A blog post, including a Venn Diagram ||   || Compare and contrast Shays' Rebellion with Occupy Wall Street
 * Nathaniel Bacon ||  || Courtroom ||   || Mock Trial ||   || Bacon on trial for burning Jamestown ||
 * Other -
 * A poor, indebted farmer in 1786 in Massachusetts
 * Any follower of Bacon
 * Congressperson
 * someone living on a tent on Wall Street
 * Other related! ||  || Other -
 * House of Burgesses
 * voters
 * students
 * teacher
 * homeless person
 * someone living in a tent on Wall Street
 * anything else! ||  || Other
 * music
 * art
 * poem
 * interview
 * ad
 * letter
 * whatever! ||  || Other -
 * Anything directly or indirectly related to any of the three rebellions we've studied. ||
 * whatever! ||  || Other -
 * Anything directly or indirectly related to any of the three rebellions we've studied. ||