Creating scrapbooking identity posters was fun

Creating scrapbooking identity posters was fun

By Dominique Evans and Noah Garrison

    In Mrs. [Marianne] Dyer’s English/language arts classes, we incorporate “Character Education” into most everything we work on. It is also the theme for the essay we write for “Writers’ Night” which takes place in the spring. Early on in the year we create identity cards with a small photo, our address, and our phone numbers. We also practice writing friendly letters to classmates. The most fun project, however, is our Scrapbooking Identity Poster.

    To create a Scrapbooking Identity Poster, each student divides a poster into four quadrants. Quadrant 1 contains information about the student’s early years and his/her physical traits. The second quadrant contains information about the student’s family life. The third quadrant tells about the student’s interests, activities, hobbies, and talents. The fourth quadrant has quotes that others have shared about them, and includes the student’s character traits.

    These posters contain photos, and have to be designed using scrapbooking techniques, so they are fun to create and cute to look at. Parents may help students, and it becomes a family project that kids have as keepsakes after they have been displayed at school.

Grade 7

Presque Isle Middle School