This is my One-Pager on the Pathways to Theme assignment. The assignment was to create a one pager on a children’s book of our choice. The story I chose was Sea Prayer by Khaled Hosseini.

 

 

Core Competency Reflection

My one pager demonstrates how I presented information clearly and in an organized way by showing how I grouped similar topics together and made them plainly seen. In my assignment, I put the questions at the top, the quotes in the middle, and the themes at the bottom so that it was organized and easily read. I also fine lined everything and spaced it out with accompanying pictures so that the information was clear and understandable. A personal strategy I used to generate ideas was flipping through the book and reading it over a few times so that I could absorb the overall message and ideas. I also tried imaging myself in the main character’s shoes and what choice I would make if I were there in Syria. These helped me come up with ideas for my writing and pictures, which helped me understand more about the story. This assignment shows I’m good at symbolism and communicating the themes of the story by having a lot of imagery and depth. I used the sinking boat to show the desperation of refugees trying to flee to safety and how if the international community helped more, tragedies like this wouldn’t happen by putting the story quote under water and the article one above water. I also understood how the book is both about a father’s love and miseries greed imposes on others and used that to write my theme statements and questions.