You may wish to take the opportunity to tell a story from your family's history. The old stories that people tell at family reunions should be written down. This is your chance to share those stories. Some people feel that the proper response to Maus should be from the right brain. Maus is an artistic, creative attempt to deal with an issues that touches us emotionally, not just intellectually.
Some people feel that it misses the whole point of the book to write a dry research paper.
Maus needs a response from the heart, not the head. So, some students have written poems, painted pictures, or done musical compositions.