Viewing &

Representing
Projects

Time Capsule
Category: Viewing & Representing
Description:
Pretend you are a character from your novel and create a time capsule filled
with items that you feel are important to share with the world 100 years from
now, with writing about each item and why they were important to you. You
must include at least 8 items and provide a description and rationale for
why these items are important enough to be in your time capsule.
What do these items do? What do they symbolize to you? Do you want
humans to advance these items? Choose items that represent the
worldview of your novel. Why do you feel they are important enough to
go into your capsule? You must take the position of someone else and
demonstrate and explain WHY these items are important to you and
to show the future.
Outcomes:
General Outcome 2: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to
comprehend and respond personally and critically to oral, print and other media texts.

2.1
2.2
2.3
2.4

Use Strategies and Cues

Respond to Texts
Understand Forms, Elements and Techniques
Create Original Text

Step by
Step:_____________________________________________________
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1. Begin by brainstorming a list of items that you could put in your novel
study time capsule. You can look through the book, online, or on google
classroom to get some ideas.
2. Get creative!!! Maybe pick items of importance, symbols, items
to represent big character changes or developments.

3. Brainstorm how you can present this information. You can present it in
a format of your choosing, but remember that you are being
marked on how you VIEW and REPRESENT significant items,
themes, and symbols from your novel.
a. You could make this online on a weebly or wix website
b. You could make this by hand and put items in an actual box
c. The ideas are endless. Can you make even the time capsule
container itself relate to your novel?
4. For each item in your time capsule you must write up a rationale
about WHY you chose this item to put in your Renaissance time
capsule. Your rationale must explain:
a. What the item is
b. Why you chose this item to represent your novels worldview to
future generations
c. What the cultural and historical significance of this item is how
did it help advance society? Or did it hinder society?
d. How this item represents worldview?
5. Write a letter to include in your time capsule to be read when it is
opened. See the link below for exemplars. Remember: this is a letter
to the future.
6. Submit on Google Classroom
Supplies Needed:
Chrome book
Access to Internet & Google Docs
Your Novel
Google Classroom
A visual representation of each item (could be a drawing or image)
Any other items that will help you in making or writing about your time
capsule (glue, markers, scissors, etc.)
Additional Resources:
How to Create a Time Capsule: http://www.wikihow.com/Create-a-TimeCapsule
o This also shows exemplars of a time capsule letter
What is in a Time Capsule? (from the Smithsonian Museum)
http://www.si.edu/mci/downloads/RELACT/time_capsule_read.pdf
Inventions of the Renaissance https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/10inventions-of-the-renaissance
Googledoc templates:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/16Ad83csNlSbCDszJDaTy_tfaGyLq
5JEpmiteVj_lrkA/edit
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Vcml9cHQtCAUeqzzSsSQWFEVQ
KGA8jt7FFkRj288Wxg/edit#heading=h.p47si3907wjz

Board Game
Category: Viewing and Representing
Description:
Create an original board game that showcases major themes,
challenges, ideas, and symbols from your novel. Think of games like
Monopoly, Dungeons and Dragons, or Life, for your inspiration! Your game
should highlight the major plot events from your novel and must
demonstrate the major challenges presented to your characters. You
must create rules, game pieces, game cards, and the game board. Try to
spice it up with your own personality and add some colourful visuals
and graphics! You will also need to submit a written rationale about
how and why your game demonstrates your novels worldview. Dont
forget to give your game a title, rules, and how to win!
Outcomes:
General Outcome 2: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to
comprehend and respond personally and critically to oral, print and other media texts.

2.1
2.2
2.3
2.4

Use Strategies and Cues

Respond to Texts
Understand Forms, Elements and Techniques
Create Original Text

Step by
Step:_____________________________________________________
___________
1. Recall significant and important moments and developments from your
novel and choose what you want to feature in your board game.
Decide on what characters, ideas, themes, moments you want to
showcase! Some questions to ask yourself while researching and
deciding what to have in your game are:
a. Why is this topic/idea important to your novel?
b. How has this big event, idea, or invention affected worldview?
2. Next, decide how these ideas can be used in your game and what
kind of game you want to create. You might find it helpful to think
of games you have played or to look them up online. Choose a game
that can work with your ideas.

3. Create your game! Make sure you have all papers, game pieces, game
board, playing pieces, etc., that you need.
4. Create rules for your game. These should be so clear that I could play
your game without asking you for help. Make sure you explain how to
win!
5. Write a rationale for your game. Why did you make it the way that you
did? Why did you include certain ideas, themes, and concepts from
your novel? Answer how you demonstrated worldview and why you
chose to include specific things/ideas/objects.
6. Submit on Google Classroom
Supplies Needed:
Chrome book
Access to Internet & Google Docs
Your Novel
Google Classroom
Robust Device
Paper
Glue
Scissors
Any other materials you may need for your game board

Create a Map/Scene/Setting
Category: Viewing and Representing
Description:
Create a detailed map, scene, or setting from the novel. You must do
more than draw a picture of a tree or draw an island. Get creative with how
you want to make your setting: maybe you will ONLY use items found at
home, or maybe you will ONLY make it from things found in nature, much like
Coles journey on the island (if you are reading Touching Spirit Bear, for
example). Your setting must include all of the important locations or
environments from your chosen scene or location from the novel. Make sure
you include a legend to help the audience understand and interpret your
map or setting.
Outcomes:
General Outcome 2: Students will listen, speak, read,
write, view and represent to comprehend and respond
personally and critically to oral, print and other media
texts.

2.1
2.2
2.3
2.4

Use Strategies and Cues

Respond to Texts
Understand Forms, Elements and Techniques
Create Original Text

Step by
Step:_____________________________________________________
___________
1. Recall significant and important moments and places from your novel.
Decide if you want to create 1 specific scene or to combine larger
locations together.

2. Decide how you want to create your 3D

setting/scene/map. What materials do you want
to use? Get creative! You could use materials
that relate to your novel! (think of Touching Spirit
Bear and how it takes place primarily in nature...
could you use natural materials to create your
setting?)
3. Create your 3D setting/map/scene.
4. Write up a legend that corresponds with your 3D
scene.
5. Next, write up a rationale and description for your
3D map/setting/scene. Why did you make it the
way that you did? Why did you include certain
objects, locations, or concepts from your novel? Answer how you
demonstrated worldview and why you chose to include specific
objects/places.
6. Submit on Google Classroom
Supplies Needed:
Chrome book
Access to Internet & Google Docs
Your Novel
Google Classroom
Robust Device
Paper
Glue
Scissors
Any other materials you may need for your 3D scene/map/setting

Create a 3D Model of a
Theme
(Visual Representation)
Category: Viewing and Representing
Description:
Create a 3D object (could be a mobile, 3D statue, quilt, painting, collage,
sweater, etc.) that demonstrates a main theme from the novel
(empathy, forgiveness, respect, justice, anger, etc.) Create something that
represents this theme, or the novel, to YOU. Think outside of the box! Take
this deeper and get creative! For example, if you choose to do religion you
cannot simply draw a Catholic Church-in doing so, you are not creatively
representing and instead are just simply drawing what the object actually is.
If you choose religion, then maybe you will make a painting of a man torn
between two things (the Catholic Church and the Protestant Church). This
shows a much deeper understanding and representation of your theme
(Hint: think of making a metaphor or smile for your theme!!). You are also
expected to create a write up that explains their visual representation about
how and why you created this piece and what/how/why it represents this
theme. You will also be required to submit a written rationale that explains
your 3D object and what it is representing. Act like an art critic critiquing
your own work. Your write up will explain the how and why of your visual
representation. In your visual representation, you are required to show
the worldview.
Outcomes:

General Outcome 2: Students will listen, speak, read,

write, view and represent to comprehend and respond
personally and critically to oral, print and other media
texts.

2.1
2.2
2.3
2.4

Use Strategies and Cues

Respond to Texts
Understand Forms, Elements and Techniques
Create Original Text

Step by
Step:_____________________________________________________
___________
1. Begin by choosing a topic or theme from your novel that interests you.
Why does this interest you? What do you find fascinating about it? This
is what you need to represent!
2. Research your topic, theme, or idea that you want to visually
represent in great detail and write down your research findings in
googledoc. Find out everything you can about your topic (could be a
person, theme, religious or political movement, invention, etc.)
a. Why is this topic important to the worldview of your novel?
b. Why is this idea/theme important and central to your novel?
c. What is important about it?
3. Decide what metaphor or visual you want to use to demonstrate
your theme from your novel. Remember: crazy is good! Get
creative!!
4. Create your 3D visual representation of your novel study theme. It can
be almost anything you want: a mobile, statue, wire sculpture, etc. You
can use any material you want.
5. Get creative and think outside of the box!
6. Write a rationale that explains your 3D object and what it is
representing. Act like an art critic critiquing your own work. Your write
up will explain the how and why of your visual representation.
7. Hand in on Google Classroom with a picture, and submit your object for
marking!
Below is a visual representation of the learning process.

Supplies Needed:
Chrome book
Access to Internet & Google Docs
Your Novel
Google Classroom
Robust Device
Creativity and abstract thinking
Any materials you require for your 3D object

Totem Pole
Category: Viewing and Representing
Description:
You will create an original totem pole that encompasses the major themes
present in your novel, or that encompass a main character, and one for
yourself. Totem poles are monuments created by First Nations of the Pacific
Northwest to represent and commemorate ancestry, histories, people, or
events. Most totem poles display beings, or crest animals, marking a familys
lineage and validating the powerful rights and privileges that the family
held. Totem poles would not necessarily tell a story so much as it
would serve to document stories and histories familiar to community
members or particular family or clan members. Your totem pole needs to the
show the worldview of your novel. A totem pole typically features
symbolic and stylized human, animal, and supernatural forms. Totem poles
are primarily visual representations of kinship, depicting family crests

and clan membership. Students will be expected to research

symbols/animals and hand in a write up about their totem pole and
explain the symbolic meaning of the images, colours, and
pictographs they chose.
Outcomes:

General Outcome 2: Students will listen, speak, read, write,

and represent to comprehend and respond personally and
critically to oral, print and other media texts.

2.1
2.2
2.3
2.4

Use Strategies and Cues

Respond to Texts
Understand Forms, Elements and Techniques
Create Original Text

Step by

Step:___________________________________________
1. Choose a character, or theme, you want to make your Totem Pole
about. Begin to think of their characteristics and how you can
represent them in a totem pole. (Hint: a mind map or web may help
you to keep character information organized).
2. Think of colours, symbols, and animals that represent these
characteristics or ideas. Research common Totem Pole symbols and
discover the symbolic meaning.
3. Next, create your characters, or themes, Totem Pole! You can do this
in a variety of ways: draw, create on the computer, make by hand, the
opportunities are endless!
4. Do the same for yourself! Make a Totem Pole that represents YOU!
5. Write a rationale for your Totem Poles. Why did you make it the way
that you did? Why did you include certain symbols and ideas from your
novel? Answer how you demonstrated worldview and why you
chose to include specific things/ideas/objects.

view

6. Submit on Google
Classroom
Supplies Needed:
Chrome book
Access to Internet &
Google Docs
Your Novel
Google Classroom
Robust Device
Paper
Glue
Scissors
Any other materials you
may need for your Totem Poles
Additional Resources
http://indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca/home/culture/totempoles.html
There are MANY resources online about how to make a Totem Pole

Create a Comic Book

Category: Viewing and Representing
Description:
You will create an original comic book about your novel! Your comic book will
include visuals AND text (speaking bubbles, commentary, or BOTH) and will
demonstrate the worldview of your novel. You are the author and
illustrator and it is up to YOU how you want to represent your novel and retell part of the story. If you want, you could change a section of the novel,
re-write the ending, or make an additional chapter! But remember:
you must demonstrate worldview and show character development and the
main themes of your novel. Get creative and decide how you want to
format your comic book.
Outcomes:
General Outcome 2: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to
comprehend and respond personally and critically
to oral, print and
other media texts.

2.1
2.2
2.3
2.4

Use Strategies and Cues

Respond to Texts
Understand Forms, Elements and Techniques
Create Original Text

Step by
Step:__________________________________________________________
______
1. Choose whether you want to re-write a section in comic book form, or
whether you want to write an additional chapter or alternate ending.
2. Create a mind map or point-form plan to map out your comic book.
3. Begin to work on your first draft. Decide how many boxes/strips you
want per page. Begin to write in text and draw your characters. Do not
spend a lot of time on the finished product, colours, details of images,
etc.
4. Ask a peer to read over your comic book and provide feedback: is it
clear? Are the characters developed and do they act like the character
would in real life?

5. Double check with yourself: have

you demonstrated the worldview of
your novel in your comic book?
6. After you get some feedback, begin
revise and edit your 1st draft.
7. Create your 2nd and final draft. Now
the time to perfect your drawings
and illustrations! Get creative!
Make it YOURS!
8. Submit on Google Classroom
Supplies Needed:
Chrome book
Access to Internet & Google Docs
Your Novel
Google Classroom
Robust Device
Paper
Pencil Crayons
Markers
Any other materials you may need for your
comic books
Additional Resources
Guide to creating a comic book
http://www.creativebloq.com/comics/guide-create-publish-comicbook-71515975
Make a comic or storyboard https://www.pixton.com
6 Free Sites for creating your own comics
http://mashable.com/2010/10/24/create-your-own-comics/

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