Name:
City Collage
Students will work in groups of three.
Each group will be given one of the quotes below.
The students will make a collage that represents their quote.
Each Collage will include the quote and the name of the author.
Students can draw images, cut images out of magazine or use words to describe their
quote.
Students will get 40 minutes to make their collage.
Students will present their collage to the class and explain their quote and how their
collage represents their quote.
Quotes
1) “A very populous city can rarely, if ever, be well governed.”
Aristotle, Politics (4th C. B.C.E.), 7.4 TR. Benjamin Jowett
2) “Great Cities differ from towns and suburbs in basic ways, and one of these is that
cities are, by definition, full of strangers.”
Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) 1.2
3) “The City fosters art and is art; the city creates the theater and is the theater.”
Lewis Mumford, What is a City?
4) “One realizes for the first time that these Londoners have been force to sacrifice the
best qualities of their human nature, to bring to pass all the marvels of civilization which
crowd the cities.”
Friedrich Engles, The Great Towns (1845).
Scoring Rubric:
Standard
Collage
1
Unfinished product.
Few images used.
Participation
Student was not
engaged and did
little work
Presentation
Group shows their
work but does not
explain their work.
2
Collage has the
quote and author
written on it. There
are multiple images
3
Collage has the
quote and author
written on it. There
are multiple images.
The images are
arrange in a creative
and thoughtful way.
Student was
The student was
engaged but
engaged in the
sometimes was a
project and was
passive participation actively helping his
group members.
Groups explain their The Group Explains
quote in a basic
their quote. The
manner.
group then explains
why they choose
their images. The
group shows that
their collage
visually represents
their quote. The
group
Self Evaluation: Rate yourself and your group members based on the participation
rubric. Write the score you think you deserve and explain why you choose this score.
Then do the same for each group member.
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Self evaluation
Group member
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