Mapping Influences Collage Project Instructions
August 22-24, 2016
Students will create a collage that combines image and text, to document key influences in their lives. Artifacts brought from home will be combined with supplies provided in class for students to create this project. A map key will be created on the collage and explained in writing on a separate page or pages. This will be students’ first project grade in English 2 Honors.
The following elements are to be included on the collage:
- (15 points)Three places that the student has visited. These could be countries, states, towns or places within towns, such as parks. These are to be represented visually. Options include, but are not limited to:
- Using maps or creating them
- Using photographs
- Representing an element of a place, for instance drawing a swing to represent a park.
- (15 points)Three places the student has “visited” in books. These can be real places or imagined. These are also to be represented visually.
- (5 points)A line from a book. This is to be a piece of text layered over the images on the collage. Students can choose whether to type the text at home and bring it to class, or write it on.
- (5 points)An element from a movie: a character, line or place. Students can choose whether to represent this element in image or text.
- (5 points)A song lyric. This is to be a piece of text layered over the images on the collage.
- (5 points) A map key.
Each element is to be explained on a separate page or pages. This will be graded as follows:
- (15 points) Places the student has visited-explain when and why each location was visited and why it has been influential.
- (15 points) Places the student has traveled in books-explain when the book was read and why the location is appealing.
- (5 points) A line from a book-explain why this line stands out.
- (5 points) An element from a movie-explain why the movie is important.
- (5 points) A song lyric-explain why this lyric is meaningful.
- (5 points) Grammar and spelling-dictionaries are available in the classroom to check spelling.
The following supplies will be provided in the classroom:
- Colored construction paper
- Scissors
- Colored markers
- Colored pencils
- Glue sticks