With this Making Memories-A Yearbook Spread Activity, they will be able to combine their understanding of the characters in a book that they studied that year with their ideas for the "Perfect" yearbook spread.
- Student Life
- Community
- Clubs and Activities (choose one)
- Sports
- Leadership
- Memories
- Last Will and Testament
- Senior Superlatives
- Movers and Shakers
- Theme of their own (with teacher approval).
Students can complete this project individually or in pairs. If you want to offer another option, group students in teams of 4-6. After selecting a book that they studied in class this school year, and the characters to depict, each pair in the quartet or sestet will be responsible for one spread and should choose a
Spread Idea and theme. Each pair can add to the same theme or select a different one.
The characters that each group chooses to depict can be the same, or a selection from all of those that the author portrayed in the book. Each two-page spread must develop, in pictures and text, four characters, though. Their spread idea is up to them, but they must include all of the ways an author develops a character:
The finished assignment must offer evidence for the choices such as actual quotes from the book or in the student autograph texts that are included on the layout. The students' reasons for their choices should not appear on the layout, but must be typed in an explanatory paragraph format that will be stapled to the layout.
Criteria for grading are clarified on the Project Grading Rubric which is included on both the Teachers Notes page and the Student Directions page. Students will share their spreads in five-minute oral presentations
where they will address their Spread Topic and Spread Presentation Theme, the characters as well as how they depicted them, and the reasons for their choices and representations. After each presentation, have students staple their spreads to a bulletin board.
Keep your students motivated, inspired and on-task with this engaging end-of-the-year activity that is aligned with Common Core Standards and Bloom's Taxonomy. Download it from: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Activity-Making-Memories-A-Yearbook-Spread-704469
Happy Teaching,
The characters that each group chooses to depict can be the same, or a selection from all of those that the author portrayed in the book. Each two-page spread must develop, in pictures and text, four characters, though. Their spread idea is up to them, but they must include all of the ways an author develops a character:
- By what the author says
- By what the character says or how he/she acts
- By what others say about the character
- How the character thinks/speaks of him/herself.
The finished assignment must offer evidence for the choices such as actual quotes from the book or in the student autograph texts that are included on the layout. The students' reasons for their choices should not appear on the layout, but must be typed in an explanatory paragraph format that will be stapled to the layout.
Criteria for grading are clarified on the Project Grading Rubric which is included on both the Teachers Notes page and the Student Directions page. Students will share their spreads in five-minute oral presentations
Keep your students motivated, inspired and on-task with this engaging end-of-the-year activity that is aligned with Common Core Standards and Bloom's Taxonomy. Download it from: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Activity-Making-Memories-A-Yearbook-Spread-704469
Happy Teaching,
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