Broken April Lesson Plan

Broken April Book Cover

Kind of Activity:

Technology

Objective:

Students will use technology to explore the text's themes while creating compelling and persuasive visual designs.

Common Core Standards:

N/A

Structure:

In this activity, students will be asked to conceptualize and create an original book cover design for Ismail Kadare's Broken April. Their cover should synthesise and distill several of the most important elements of the book (its imagery, its plot, its themes, its position in Kadare's œuvre and Albanian literature more generally, etc.) into a compelling personal vision.

To begin with, each student should get onto a desktop or a laptop computer....