Tome Book Award Character Scrapbook Page

Competition Instructions

Objective: Create a page from the imaginary scrapbook of a character in a book on the current Tome Book Award list for your grade level.

Learning Targets:

• This activity encourages students to analyze the themes & plot of the book in order to create a scrapbook page that accurately represents the experiences, thoughts, and feelings of the character.
• Through designing a visual scrapbook page students can deepen their understanding of the tone and mood of the book, as these elements are key in visual storytelling.
• By focusing on elements like theme and setting, students can enhance their comprehension of how these literary components contribute to the overall impact of a story and its characters.
• By using inspiration from the story itself, students can learn how to translate abstract concepts into visual imagery.

Final Product Guidelines:

• Should be a one page physical document created using craft supplies such as magazines, colored pencils, paint, stickers, and other visual elements.
• Must be submitted as a sharable link (i.e. file saved to Google Docs, DropBox, etc.)

• Scan the scrapbook page or take a high resolution picture of the scrapbook page and save as .jpg or .png file.

• Cover page document must be saved as a PDF
• Must clearly be the student’s own original work - NO AI ALLOWED.
• All text should be excellently written with excellent grammar, spelling, & mechanics.
• Project should be based on a book on the current Tome Book Award list for the student’s chapter level.
• Cover Page document should include:

• Student’s name
• Student’s school name
• Student’s grade
• Image of book cover
• Brief description of the plot of the book - no spoilers.
• 200-400 word description of the process the student used to plan, design, and create the scrapbook page.

• What elements of the story did you want the page to reflect and why?
• How does the scrapbook page reflect elements from the character’s experience in the story - setting, specific scenes, likes, dislikes, other characters, thoughts, etc.
• How did you decide on the visual elements for the page?
• What was your artistic process for creating the page?

• Scrapbook page guidelines:

• Include color images - original artwork, magazine/newspaper clippings, and printed stock images (with proper citation) allowed
• Include Title of book
• Include Author of book
• Additional visual elements and/or decorative elements such as stickers, small tokens, pressed flowers, etc. allowed
• Images & content should be school-appropriate (no profanity, nudity, illegal substances, etc.)

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Tome Book Award Character Scrapbook Page

Scoring Rubric

Student should self-assess their work using the following scoring rubric before submission.

Failure to meet all rubric requirements will result in loss of points.

Please submit your entry as a multi-page PDF.

• Page 1 should be the cover page with the required cover page information
• Page 2  should contain the entry itself, which in this case should be a high-quality PICTURE of the physical scrapbook page.
• Tools like Canva make it easy to create a PDF with a proper cover page followed by graphic design picture page(s).

Total Points Awarded: ____________/167 pts

Please note: The point values listed in each category represent the maximum possible points that can be earned. However, fewer points may be awarded based on the quality or completeness of the work. Meeting the basic requirements of a criteria does not guarantee full points; higher scores are awarded for more fully addressing the criteria and demonstrating higher quality of work.