Refugee by Alan Gratz Project - One Pager Novel Assignment Creative Activity

Wrap up your novel study with this engaging Refugee project that gives students a clear and creative way to show their understanding of the text. In this one-pager assignment, students create visual responses for Josef, Isabel, and Mahmoud in Refugee by Alan Gratz, allowing them to explore each storyline while making meaningful connections across the novel. As they design their pages, students reflect on character development, important events, themes, and key quotes, combining analysis with creativity. This project provides structure while still allowing for student choice, making it a strong culminating activity that helps students synthesize what they’ve learned in a visually engaging format.

This is included in our popular unit plan:
→ Refugee by Alan Gratz Unit Plan

Included in the Refugee Project One Pager Creative Assignment:

➡️ Detailed One Pager Instruction Sheet: Provide students with a clear and structured instruction page that outlines exactly what to include in each one-pager. The guidelines walk students through expectations such as including themes, key moments, meaningful quotes, connections, and visual elements, helping them understand how to balance creativity with analysis.

➡️ 3 Character-Specific Planning Pages: These planning pages help students organize their thinking before creating their final one-pagers. Each page is dedicated to Josef, Isabel, or Mahmoud and prompts students to brainstorm important details such as character development, major events, themes, and text evidence. This step ensures students have strong ideas prepared and supports more thoughtful, organized final work.

➡️ 3 Character-Specific One Pager Templates: Students use these final templates to bring their Refugee project together in a polished visual format. Each template is designed to reflect the individual storyline of each character while giving students space to include written analysis, quotes, and creative elements. As students complete their one-pagers, they combine their planning work with visual design, resulting in a final project that clearly demonstrates their understanding of the novel.

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