Show-N-Tell
(3 parts)
These assignments might take you a few days, but will probably be the most fun. You can gather supplies at school, but try to complete them at home (you need homework hours anyway) so it can be more mysterious. Please make sure you read and follow the guidelines below. If you violate them you will be in trouble. Consider yourself warned.
1. Who You Are, Now
- You need a poster board that is at least 24"x18".
- You will create a collage that "defines" who you are, without using your name. You can include real photos; pics from a magazine or clip art; words, titles or letters from magazines or newspapers; images as symbos of your personality, etc. Your teacher has an example for you to look at.
- This collage will show who you are now - likes, dislikes, interests, hobbies, what is important to you, etc. Try to include the key info and a few surprises. It is best if people really have to study the poster to figure out who it represents.
- There is only ONE REQUIRED element on this poster. You need to include either a book or a character from literature that is your favorite, or important to you in some way.
2. Who You Are, Future
- You need a poster board that is at least 24"x18".
- You will create a collage that "defines" who you will be at age 25-30, without using your name. You can include real photos; pics from a magazine or clip art; words, titles or letters from magazines or newspapers; images as symbos of your personality, etc. Your teacher has an example for you to look at.
- This collage will show how you think your life, career and personality will be in about 10 years - likes, dislikes, interests, hobbies, what is important to you, etc. Try to include the key info and a few surprises. We hope that Ram Prep has given you some insights into what a realistic future for you might be; use that information. It is best if people really have to study the poster to figure out who it represents.
3. Everyone Has a Story
- This writing assignment will be at least a page and might be longer.
- Most people can think of a few key people or events in their lives that made them "who they are today." These stories help us explain to people where our actions, thoughts or ideas come from. Sometimes the people or events are positive, sometimes not. Either way, they left us changed in some important way.
- Choose a person or event in your life that has had a major impact on how you think or behave. Write about that with details, passion and cause - effect style.
- This is NOT a retelling of your life story. Rather, pick ONE part of your life story and show how it was important in shaping who you are today, and maybe even who you want to be.
OBVIOUS GUIDELINES (I am listing them anyway!):
- Material must be appropriate for sharing in the school environment. Things to keep in mind: if it isn’t legal to do at school, it shouldn’t be shared; if it would scandalize my mother, it shouldn’t be shared; if it would make others feel bad or embarrassed, it shouldn’t be shared!
- We should all be “improved” or our opinion of you “improved” by what you have to share. Humor is fine – actually encouraged – but don’t stoop to shock or humiliation to get a laugh; that isn’t humor.
- Whatever you share should consider other’s safety and comfort.
- If you have ANY question at all, please ask your teacher FIRST!!