Students illustrate poems from recognized poets collected and centered around a theme. Students write poems of their own on the same theme and illustrate them. The illustration are often abstract symbolizations of the poems meaning. Illustration are of a construction method, not just elements of drawing. This involves the critical thinking skills of synthesis and evaluation.
Students select events from their life to represent visually on a timeline.
Each event is illustrated, often in a symbolic manner, and briefly described verbally. This project uses the critical thinking skills that involve symbolism and a synthesis of remembered fact and pictorial representation. In a reflection they explain what the quotation means to them. As an augmentation to this project, students can request a reply to their reflections from an adult who is special to them in some way, with whom they wish to share their reflections. Quotations are usually represented in a symbolic manner, again using the critical thinking skills that involve symbolism and a synthesis of reflective thought and pictorial representation.