one+pager+Feb+11


 * One-Pager Project - “The Weary Blues” – by Langston Hughes **

**Description**: A One-Pager is a single-page response to your reading which allows you to creatively express your understanding of the text. A One-Pager involves connecting the verbal to the visual, which results in transforming the text into concrete images.

**Directions**: For this assignment, you will use an unlined piece of 8.5 x 11 paper (any color) to create your project. You can use regular printer paper, card stock or scrapbook paper.

Write the title of the poem (in quotation marks) and the author’s name on the top front of your paper.
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Choose the most powerful image/symbol or set of images/symbols from the story. Illustrate it on your page.
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Choose one example of how Hughes creates rhythm in the poem and write the line strategically on the page and explain it (elaborate)
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Somewhere on your paper, list two poetic devices with examples that you can identify in the poem.
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Look at your image, key words, and quotations. Determine how they relate to each other. Write an interpretive theme statement that expresses the meaning of what is on your page. You may need to write two or more sentences to express your idea fully. Avoid using the word “I” in your theme statement. This is the message that the author is giving us through his poem.
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Write your complete heading on the BACK of your one-pager. Do not put your name on the front.
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