What is a one-pager?
· Students take what they’ve learned from a textbook, a novel, a poem, a podcast, a Ted Talk, a guest speaker, a film and put the highlights onto a single piece of paper.
· The combination of the two leads to the most powerful results. Students will remember more when they’ve mixed language and imagery.
· As students create one-pagers, the information they put down becomes more memorable to them as they mix images and information.
The struggles of one-pager for Els.
· Artistic students prefer to feature more drawings, doodles, icons and lettering while designing one-pagers. Students who are wary of art prefer to have more text and may be hesitant to interact at all with the visual part of the mission.
· Another problem was one of overall design: Though they knew they needed to hit all the requirements their teachers listed students still seemed to be overwhelmed by that huge blank page. What should go where? Did colored pencils really have to be involved?
· The instruction portion also plays a big factor. Making sure that the directions are clear and concise is important for the Els to understand what it is they need to accomplish. Here are a few that you can include:
1. Title and author of the article.
2. Name and brief description of what the occasion was to prompt them to act.
3. Describe the setting; time, place, social conditions, atmosphere.
4. Include two vocabulary words with definitions or illustrations. Choose
words from the articles that were unfamiliar to you.
5. Include two excerpts from the articles– quotes or passages that are important to
the story. Include the page number where each quote is found.
6. Have at least one graphic representation: a drawing, magazine picture, or computer graphic that relates to the article you read and the quotes you choose from.
7. Include a personal response to what you have read Central Idea or MESSAGE
A solution: Templates.
· By providing students with a templet this would aid students in the relieving their workload and allow them to feel less intimidated by the idea of a one pager.
· By shaping your requirements, correlating each element with a space on the paper. Perhaps the border might be a key quote. An important symbol would feature in the middle. Around the center, the themes could go in circles. For various ways to respond to novels, I developed a bunch of different templates.
Examples of One-Pagers created by Lathrop High Students:
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