What genre you choose to compose for your first writing project is totally up to you. The only requirements are that it cannot be a traditional alphabetic essay and you must compose in at least two modes. I encourage you to step out of your comfort zone and try something new. Remember, your writing projects in this class don’t receive grades—your effort and your willingness to take risks matters most.
As you’re designing your Literacy Narrative project, you need to consider your audience. Who might be interested in reading about your literacy history? I would suggest you write for your instructor (me), your peers in ENG 101, and perhaps most importantly, yourself. Consider this an opportunity to do some reflecting on the experiences that guided you to become who you are as a writer, and where you want to go from here.
A blog post
Podcasts
A form of social media (like TikTok's, Instagram stories, Tweets/Facebook posts)
Google Sites (create a website for your literacy narrative!) or powerpoint presentation
All of these texts must have at least two forms of modes (aural, visual, linguistic, gestural, and spatial). If you need more information regarding the five modes of multimodality please review Melanie Gagich's article. If you have another idea that is not up here, please contact me and we can chat about it!