The Reaper’s Image/The RavenOne-Pager Assignment

A one-pager is a single page response to your reading. It is a way of making your own pattern of your unique understanding of the text. It is a way to be creative and experimental. It is a way to respond to literature imaginatively and honestly. It is a way to think outside of the box. A one-pager is a valuable way to own what you are reading. We learn best when we can create our own patterns.

Directions

  • Use unlined white paper.
  • Interweave your topic into the design of your page: Choose at least three of the elements from your notes and handout. I do not suggest choosing to interweave all the elements into your paper because it might become too bogged down with information and lose its impact.
  • Pull out at least four quotations that apply to your topic and write them on the paper. Use them as a springboard to explore your own ideas.
  • Use a visual image or images, either drawn or from other sources to create a central focus for your page that represents your topic.
  • Cluster around this image or images dominant impressions, feelings, and thoughts regarding your topic and what you have read.
  • Relate this element and images to your world today.
  • Make a personal statement about what you have read.
  • Create the one-pager in such a way that your audience will understand something of your thinking about what you have read.
  • Feel free to use colored pens, pencils, crayons, markers, etc.—the more visually appealing, the more your peers can learn from your pattern.

Grading Rubric

5 / 4 / 3 / 2 / 1
Organization /
  • Well organized
  • intriguing format
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  • Thoughtfully organized
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  • Somewhat organized
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  • Choppy and confusing
  • Difficult to follow
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  • Organization never occurred to you
  • Makes no sense

Content /
  • Excellent job of synthesizing element(s) with your thoughts and reality
  • Utilized information effectively
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  • Good job of synthesizing elements
  • Utilized information in an efficient manner
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  • Acceptable job of synthesizing elements
  • Limited information
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  • Unacceptable job of synthesizing element with real world
  • Little or no used of information
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  • Synthesized element? Yeah, right.
  • No used information

Knowledge /
  • Original, unique approach
  • Engaging, provocative
  • Excellent explanation of the element and its relationship to the novel, yourself, & your world
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  • Clever, at times unique
  • Well done, interesting
  • Easy to follow explanation of the element and its relationship to the novel, yourself, & your world
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  • Few original touches
  • At times interesting
  • Explanation of the element and its relationship to the novel, yourself, & your world is hurried and hard to understand
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  • Predictable, bland
  • Did not keep me interested
  • Very little explanation of the element and its relationship to the novel, yourself, & your world
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  • Yuck
  • I fell asleep from sheer boredom
  • No element to explain

Artistic expression /
  • Your work has an impact on its audience.
  • You have developed your own message and chosen a pattern that suits it.
  • Your work shows evidence that you researched your ideas.
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  • Your work has an impact on its audience.
  • You have developed your own message and chosen a pattern that suits it.
  • Your work shows evidence that you researched your ideas
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  • Your work has some impact on its audience.
  • You have somewhat developed your own message and chosen a pattern that suits it.
  • Your work shows evidence that you researched your ideas a little.
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  • Your work has limited impact on its audience.
  • Your work shows little evidence of a message or thought in your choice of a pattern.
  • Your work shows little evidence that you researched your ideas.
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  • As I said, I fell asleep.
  • There is no evidence of a pattern or any reading or research done.