Assignment:
RATIONALE: Alphabet Books represent an interesting blend of educational content and often elaborate illustration, typical of picture books.
However, each often has at least two underlying goals:
- to educate and
- to entertain children (young and old)
But, how do authors do that? What makes a great Alphabet Book? That's what you will have to grapple with as you create your own Alphabet Book. Remember to keep the content, illustrations, and audience in mind. Have a great time.
GOAL: To Create an original Alphabet Book
Project: Children's Picture Book (Counting or Alphabet)
Requirements:
1. Create a children's picture book, either a counting or an alphabet book
2. Let your imagination go!!!!
3. Build the book around a distinctive theme
a. The theme must be approved before you begin. This is to ensure that not everyone is working on the same theme.
b. As soon as you know what your theme is, let me know so that I can "lock it!"
Some Theme Ideas:
- the supermarket (A =aisle, B = Bakery)
- North Carolina (B= Biltmore House, D= Dukies, M= Michael Jordan)
- famous children's authors (B= Beatrix Potter)
- a foreign language alphabet (well, you can practice your French or Spanish!)
- a historical event
- endangered species an ethnic group or culture
- environmental issues
- a holiday alphabet
- a ghostly alphabet
- a mystery alphabet
- comic book or classical children's fairy tale characters
- a non-sense book (make up new words)
4. Use an appropriate method to create the book
a. You are not expected to produce a book that looks like it was professionally printed.
b. It should be a PowerPoint presentation with one letter (or number) per slide.
5. The book must be completed by the due date.
6. Along with the book, you must present the answers to the following:
i. An introduction that describes your choice of topic (what you chose and why)
ii. An explanation of the choices you made in illustrating the book
1. What were you trying to accomplish with the illustrations.
2. How the process of creating the illustrations worked out for you (easy, difficult, etc.)