Design a cover to reflect your book’s theme
Add dividers that relate theme to each section
Lesson 2: Secondary schools
Designing your themepages
Before designing:
Create a title page (first page of the book)
Include theme-related photos, copy and secondary elements
Study the theme for the book on this sheet. These students are the Penguins. They’re just now going back to school after the mandatory quarantine that occcurred the previous year. Complete Exercise 2 as you brainstorm for design ideas that reflect your theme. Consider photo ideas the will echo your concept. Assign or take the pictures that will help tell the story of your year as it relates to your theme. List those photos to use on theme spreads: • Title page - page 1 • Opening spread - pages 2-3 • Divider spreads - activities (student life), academics, sports, people, organizations • Closing spread - last double-page spread in your book • Parting page - last page in your book
Designing theme spreads:
Add an opening spread to introduce the theme
Add a final spread to wrap up the year’s coverage
Cover: Gather ideas from students and professional media sources. Choose the cover that best represents your theme concept. Create: Go to thefreedictionary.com to find idioms and synonyms to use as headlines on theme spreads and on secondary modules throughout the book. Plan: Locate photos that drive the concept on each theme spread. Add those to your design. Consider: Include cut-out-background photos with accompanying quotes that reflect the theme. Add a sidebar featuring a theme-related topic with students quoted about the topic. Include close-up face photos of those students in your modules. Write: Add a short copy area to include specific examples of how the theme relates to your school this year.
Additional resources: PowerPoint Video Curriculum: Theme Chapter 3 - pages 1-52 Theme ideas Chapter 3 - pages 53-58 Exercise 2 Break into small groups and use Exercise 2 to analyze your school. Describe your school as you respond to the questions. Include your school’s attributes, challenges and pride points.
CORE Standards for Theme - Speaking and Listening: - 9-12.1, 9-12.1a, 9-12.2, 9-12.4, 9-12.5 - page 50; Writing: 9-12.4, 1-12.5, 9-12.6 - page 46; Language Standards - 9-12.1, 9-12.2, 9-12.3 - page 54; 9-12.4.c, 9-12.4d, 9-12.5, 9-12.6 - page 55
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Choose words that describe the details you discovered in your discussion. On your computer, go to thefreedictionary.com to find idioms that might make a good theme choice. Bring your ideas to a full staff discussion.