For this project, you will create a graphic essay that provides a visual analysis – using symbols, images, colors and text – of one aspect (symbol, theme, motif) of your novel. You will publish this on your website.
A graphic map is defined as a visual project that combines color, symbol and words to make a unified statement. The aim of this project is to help you synthesize and organize many details from the text, connecting them and making sense of them.
In this particular graphic essay, you will demonstrate your understanding of the major themes, motifs, or symbols within the novel, backing up your knowledge with examples from the text.
REQUIREMENTS:
1) Use a combination of color, symbol and words to convey your message. You may draw, but do not use cut-out pictures. This is not a collage.
2) Use color in a meaningful way; remember that color can be used symbolically and/or as a way to organize your graphics various elements.
3) Select a unifying symbol or symbols. Symbols are not necessarily artistic. Shapes, colors, sizes, natural objects, etc. can all be symbols (such as a crown for a king). On occasion, words can also be used as symbols.
4) You must include textual evidence on the graphic: quotations and/or references to specific events in the Novel to back up your images
5) AND you must include a text commentary that explains why you chose certain elements for each quotation or selection of evidence. That means you must include a statement that tells why a certain quote or image was included in the graphic
6) All of the images and text selections, with commentary, should work together to support one main THESIS STATEMENT, which must be placed on the graphic to clearly identify the idea you are exploring
7) Integrate your colors, symbol(s) and words to form a pleasing and logical design.
8) Scan or make a digital photo and publish on your website.