Lit Clique Book Projects

Mrs. Adrian

Projects Matrix
Directions: Choose from the below projects.
Billboard Collage Events Draw! Book Jacket
Timeline

50 pts 50 pts 25 pts 25 pts 50 pts

Rosencrantz Found Collage The Woody Time Diorama
and Poem Allen Machine
Gildenstern
50 pts
25 pts 25 pts 50 pts 50 pts
Life Graph Second Sing Me a Executive Call for
Chance Song Summary Censorship
(Then and
Now)

50 pts 25 pts 50 pts 25 pts 50 pts

Newspaper Open Mind Visual Novel That was Interactive
Connection Then, This Is Character
Now Wheels
50 pts
50 pts 25 pts 25 pts 50 pts

Total Points Available: 400

Total Points Needed: 100

Anything less than 100 points gets partial credit

 Projects Matrix Options
Billboard (50 points) As in the movies, take what seems the most compelling image(s) and
create an advertisement for the novel on a 22 by 28 poster board (see example).

Collage (50 points) Create a collage on a 22 by 28 poster board about themes related to
the novel. You can use materials such as scraps of paper and other flat materials like
newspaper and magazine clippings, shopping bags, photographs (or photocopies of
photographs), wallpaper, and foil as well as objects (i.e. beads, string, fabric), and images
and text. You could paint, draw, stamp, or stencil in between. Keep in mind that every
aspect of the collage must be related to the book.

Events Timeline (25 points) Create a timeline on a 22 by 28 poster board that includes
both the events in the novel and historical information of the time and John Howard Griffin.
Include pictures or photographs.

Draw! (25 points) Translate the books chapters into storyboards and cartoons. Draw the
most important scene in the chapter and explain its importance and action beneath the
drawing.

Book Jacket (50 points) Design a book jacket for the novel that would be no larger than a
sheet of plain white paper, but done on cardstock paper. Your jacket should include
illustrations of 3-5 elements from the novel. You must include two characters, an important
event, and a major theme.

Rosencrantz and Gildenstern (10 points) Rosencrantz and Gildenstern were two
insignificant characters in one of Shakespeares plays. Write a story or journal of no less
than 2 pages from the perspective of characters with no real roles in the novel, and show
what they see and think from their perspective about the major themes (not characters) of
the novel.

Found Collage Poem (10 points) A Found Poem is a type of poetry created by taking words,
phrases, and sometimes whole passages from other sources and reframing them as poetry
by making changes in spacing and/or lines (and consequently meaning), or by altering the
text by additions and/or deletions. For this project, you will cut words, phrase, and even
whole passages from magazines, newspapers, catalogs, an even the book, and will construct
them to form a poem related to the themes of the novel. The cutouts of words, phrases,
and/or whole passages should be glued onto stock paper of any size (depending on the
length of the poem and size of the cutouts).

The Woody Allen (10 points) in the film Take the Money, Allen interviews the parents of a
man who became a bank robber. Write an imaginary interview of no less than 2 pages with
friends and family of a character whom they try to help readers understand.

Time Machine (10 points) Instead of traveling into the novel, write a scene or story of no
less than 2 pages in which the main character(s) travel out of the book into todays society.
What would he/she experience? Will it be different from the norms of his/her own times?
How would he engage with the people of todays society?

Diorama (5 points) A diorama is a model representing a scene with three-dimensional

figures (see example). Create a diorama of a particularly important scene in the novel.
Life Graph (5 points) In the novel, plot the events in the main characters life during the
novel and evaluate their importance in a short paragraph underneath each event on a 22
by 28 poster board (see example).

Second Chance (5 points) In no less that five paragraphs, write about how it would change
the novel if a certain character had made a different decision early in the story.

Sing Me a Song (10 points) Write a song/rap about the story, a character, or an event in the
novel that is at least 2 minutes long.

Executive Summary (5 points) Take a 3x5 index card per chapter in the novel and
summarize what happened in the chapter on one side, and on the other side analyze the
importance of what happened and the reasons it happened using the entire card.

Call for Censorship (Then and Now) (10 points) In order to better understand all sides to an
argument, imagine you are someone in the time period of your novel who feels the novel
should not be read. Write a 2-page letter to the author in which you argue that it should be
removed from schools. Then imagine you are someone in that same time period that feels
this particular book should definitely be read in schools, and write a different 2-page letter
to a major newspaper in which you argue that it should not be removed. Overall, you are
writing two 2-page letters to the author, a pro and a con.

Newspaper Connection (10 points) Read current newspapers and magazines to find articles
that somehow relate to issues and themes in the novel, and present the information on a 36
by 48 display board by posting the actual article (electronic or hardcopy), and a summary
of the article and the way it connects to the novel.

Open Mind (5 points) On a 22 by 28 poster board, draw an empty head and inside of it
draw any three to five symbols, words, phrases, or images that are bouncing around in the
mind of one of the characters in the novel, and follow it up with a thorough explanation and
exploration of the symbols, words, phrases, or images.

Visual Novel (10 points) Interactive storytelling is a form of digital story-making in which
users create or influence a dramatic storyline through actions using computer programs
(such as PowerPoint, Windows Animation), computer software (such as Adobe Creative
Suite, Storyboard Pro, Photo Pos Pro [free service]), or online software (such as
www.reelclever.com, www.animoto.com, www.storyboardquick.com). If you are computer
proficient, create a multimedia, interactive version of each chapter of the novel.

That Was Then, This Is Now (10 points) After reading the book create a Before/After
timeline on a 36 by 48 display board to show the character development of the main
character in the novel and how he/she has changed over the course of the novel.

Interactive Character Wheel (10 points) On a 22 by 28 poster board, draw a pie divided
into four sections and create character summaries (ethics, wise actions and beliefs,
motivations, effects on others) for four important characters in the novel. It should be
creative and interactive.