I would say brainstorming because you are making a list of certain topics. With brainstorming, that is exactly what you do, you write down a list of topics that you are interested in or know a lot about.
Depending on the topic that your teacher gives you, you might be able to intertwine all of these ideas/topics into a paper.
Hopefully this helps and good luck. :)
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