Midterm Project: World Literature + Me - Create a Literary Infographic

 

This is the Midterm Project for this course and is meant to be more ambitious, creative, and reflective. Create a project that you will feel proud to put in the #fa23worldlit archive and that will inspire future learners. 

The Literary Infographic

An infographic is a visual image such as a chart or diagram used to represent information or data in an easily understandable form (OED). In this project, you will create an infographic that represents the themes, motifs, and symbols of one of the readings from our course.

First,

• Create an account with Canva using your Kean Google account.
• Familiarize yourself with the environment
• Once your account is created, search up “infographics” in Canva
• Look through the infographic templates available (use one of the available free infographic templates)

Then, 

Revisit one of the readings from this semester

Then, 

Using Canva, create an infographic that describes and explains the themes, symbols, and motifs present in one reading of your choice.

• Either work on your own or with a partner / Post in the #looking-for-group channel to find a group partner.
• Watch tutorials on creating infographics using Canva.
• View an example of the kind of literary infographic you'll create.
• Choose a Canva infographic template to use.
• Section your infographic into three areas: themes, symbols, motifs
• Using a combination of text and images, highlight at least three themes, two motifs, and as many symbols as you'd like (if there are any). See the sample infographic below.
• Refer to scenes from the reading to support a particular theme, motif, or symbol. Include the names of the characters involved in the scenes.
• Here are some sample Literary infographics that focus on themes and characters.

Use your resources to help you create your infographic,

• Consult the Resources for Projects doc.

• Consult the "Ways into the Text" doc for your reading.

• Consult your blog posts

• Consult your annotations 

• Consult the Literary Terminology spreadsheet when writing about the reading. 

• Example terms by genre

• Drama: character, plot, conflict, action; exposition, setting, theme, dialogue

• Epic: hero, oral tradition, poetry, continuous narrative

• Fiction: plot, character, setting, theme, point of view, figurative language 

• Poetry: voice, diction

Submit

• Share your infographic with me through Canvas.

• Post a very short maker’s statement in your blog post describing the what, why, and hows of your process. What questions came up for you? Why? What problems came up for you? Why? How did you solve the problems?

• Include a link to your infographic in the body of your blog post

• Include the #fa23worldlit tag

• Share a link on Slack to your Blogger post in the #midterm-project channel.

Sample: