JAMAL PRACHA
SURVIVAL BROCHURE
The main purpose of this project was to make a survival brochure guide on a location that has an extreme environment using specific text features. We could choose from the arctic, jungle, desert, remote forest/dense wooded area, high elevation, or a remote island. The brochure had to include all of the following text features: a title, a heading, a subheading, a photograph/illustration, a diagram, a caption, a bold print, a bulleted list, a side bar, and a map. The brochure also had to include 4 suggestions on how to survive, 3 hazards, 2 types of natural disasters, and 2 ways to signal your position in this extreme environment. We also had to have good grammar and spelling in our brochures.
I chose to make my survival brochure guide on the rain forest. The first thing we had to do was to find or make a brochure using Microsoft PowerPoint. Then we had to find info to use and put on our brochure. Then we had to make sure all the text features had been used. Finally we had to see if we had met the requirements of the rubric. While doing this I had to develop a plan to know what to accomplish and an idea on where to find the reliable and correct information to use on the brochure.
One of the hardest challenges for me was making a sidebar because I didn’t know what to put in the sidebar. I overcame that challenge by writing about how to find where is North, East, South, and West and determining your position in the rain forest.
My first artifact is my first draft of my brochure and it is important because this is the draft I got feedback on which made my final draft even better than my first draft. Some classroom content that is seen here is that there is a sidebar which is one of the text features. A sidebar is where you can talk about something that does not exactly go with the main topic of the brochure. There is also a heading which tells you what the paragraph is about.
I think I grew in communication because I used so many different techniques to inform my reader on how to survive in a rain forest. I used images and diagrams to show how to do things and I used a map to tell where the rain forests are located. Images, diagrams, and maps are all visual aids to help the reader see what you are talking about. I also used headings and subheadings to show were to find different types of information. A heading and a subheading are basically the same thing. They both help the reader find out what your paragraphs are talking about.To me communication means to be able to tell or inform something to someone else using whatever techniques you have. In this case I used different text features to inform my readers about the rainforest.
My second artifact is two of my 5th pages of my brochure. The left one is the first draft and then the right one is the final draft. I think I grew in creativity because I didn’t know what to put on that page at first but then I realized that I forget to put something on my brochure so I put the map and hazard and natural disasters on that page. I learned that by adding a map it can help the reader visualize where something is located and what the location’s surroundings are. To me creativity means to compose something right while still meeting the requirements.
By completing this brochure this implies that I can use text features correctly to help others read and understand my main point. This can help me in the future because when I am writing a report or something I can get my main point across easily. This also implies that I know different techniques to use when writing something.