Survival GuideNovember 9, 2010

The goals of this lesson is for you to be able to create a guide book which can be used to help others coming into high school

This assignment will also increase your ability to organize your ideas and create an attractive layout for your guide

This is enhancing your creativity

Goals

Start by choosing the topics that you feel are important for a student new to high school

Then create tips which you feel will be most helpful for the students

Number them in the guide book you can have several tips for a certain topic

Separate your guide book into different sections and have various tips for each: classes, extra curricular, bullies, teachers, etc.

Add little doodles and illustrations for your tips to help the students understand the tip

You can even illustrate your tips in the form of a comic strip

How to create your survival guide

School lunches Cliques English class Gym class Friends Sports teams Detention How to deal with bullies Homework Etc.

Ideas for school tips

Examples

You are going to be creating a high school survival guide which would be useful to a freshman going into RDPC next year.

Your guide must include at least 10 tips you can add more if you like

You must have illustrations for at least 5 of your tips

You must have a creative presentation of your guide book

Assignment

You will be marked on:◦ having at least 10 tips for surviving high school◦ 5 of the 10 tips must have illustrations◦ The creativeness of you layout for you survival

guide◦ Grammar and spelling◦ You will be marked on your neatness of the final

copy

Marking

“Simon and Schuster Amelia’s School Survival Guide.” Date accessed Nov. 8, 2010 from: http://static.letsbuyit.com/filer/images/uk/products/original/61/71/amelia-s-school-survival-guide.jpeg

“The Scope.” Aug 2007. Date accessed Nov. 8, 2010 from: http://thescope.ca/photos/aug3007/thescope-issue039-cover.jpg

“Diary of a Wimpy Kid.” March 2008. Date accessed Nov. 8, 2010 from http://booksforteens.edublogs.org/files/2008/03/diary-of-a-wimpy-kid.jpg

References