ENG4C Culminating

Your Task:

For your Culminating activity you are required to create an infographic focusing on one of the topics below and present it to the class.

Topics:

a.) Teen as author – Create an infographic focusing on biographical information about S.E. Hinton, informing us about her life events and opinions in the context to the plot and characters of the novel The Outsiders.

b.) The details have it – In an info graphic compare The Outsiders with a modern Teen novel you have read (not your book club book) – look for similarities in author’s style, character, theme, plot, setting etc.

c.) Writing a Memoir – Create an infographic with information on what it takes to write a great memoir and the publishing process and potential rewards and motivation to write a Memoir.

d.) The theme at the core – Examine the themes (3 minimum) and content in one of our course texts.

e.) It’s all symbolic anyway - Explore the importance of symbolism in literature, poetry, movies or song in an infographic making reference to at least one course text.

f.) Read – u – cation - Design an infographic on explaining the benefits of using annotation to improve reading and how to annotate – aimed at a grade 9 -11 student as audience.

g.) Cross media Marketing - Create an infographic that promotes / markets the content of your book club book to a someone looking for an idea for a new movie

If you want ideas, clarification or resources for this task you may access the Culminating Activity link on www.trullsenglish.weebly.com on the 4C Culminating Activity page. There you will find a copy of this assignment in case you lose yours along with Infographic definitions, informative slideshows and links for designing your Infographic.

When creating your infographic you should think about:

1. Which information, facts, and data are essential to include? Which aren’t?2. What colors and layout works best in sharing the information?3. What graphs and graphics best convey information and data to the viewer?4. What is the order, or flow, of information?5. Does your finished infographic present the key information from your topic a-g in a clear

an interesting way?

Your Infographic is due (must be completed by the start of class on_______________________ when you will be presenting it to the class.

The Culminating project and presentation will be marked out of 50 and this assignment will be worth 15% of your final grade. Please find the rubric attached.

If you plagiarize this assignment you will be given a mark of 0. To avoid charges of plagiarism use only your own ideas or provide a MLA style citation page with references for your research with your final project.

Exemplars of Infographics follow: