Visualizing Perfume - Perfume "Mapped"

Since the consensus was you found the Kokoro mapped so helpful, we will reprise this creative unpacking of a novel.

TIME FRAME: You will have most of the period Thurs., May 9 and about 10 min. Monday, May 13 to wrap up anything if needed. If you need to work on it over the weekend and don't want to take the huge paper home, just make things on small pieces of paper and glue them on Monday.

Step 1: Find a small group of 3-4 (partners would be fine too, but please no more than 4 to a group)

Step 2: Get a large piece of Post-It poster paper and some markers/ sharpies. Find a comfy place to be on the floor (in room or hall) OR place desks together.

Step 3: Your group will use our work on Padlet and your own notes as a resource to create a sort of "visual map" of the novel Perfume. (it's like a giant one-pager, which you can see many examples of if you search on Google). You can add things or develop things as needed. The things you curate should be meaningful to you. Divide the "hunting and gathering" and designing/drawing among your group members.

Step 4: You may design your visualization any way you like. For example, you might want to divide the story between the Four Parts. Or, you might want to go chronologically, as if the story was a board game or a journey. You might want to base the entire design around the main characters. The sky's the limit!

Step 5: Check that you have all the following components in some way, shape or form, but you can add others!

REQUIRED COMPONENTS:

- Sketch one visual symbol that represents one of the text’s main themes.

- Identify traits of each character (Grenouille, Father Terrier, Madame Gaillard, Grimal the Tanner, Baldini, Richis, Druot, Laure)

- Illustrate connections between the characters (how are they related? how do they feel about each other? how do they affect the other?)

- An overarching "big" question that this book asks / makes you think about

- sketches representing at least 3 significant settings in the novel.

- Illustrate a question brought up by one of us in Padlet.

- at least two specific examples of literary devices.

- 1 quotation that you think best sums up this work (of course you may include more than 1 of your favorite quotes, or make a doodle for them)

- 1 or more interesting vocabulary words you learned (illustrating their meaning as well)

- 1 aspect of 18th century France you learned from reading this novel

- a 6 WORD STORY - how would you sum up this entire novel in a mere 6 words (search "six word memoirs" or "six word stories" to see examples)

- your names! (with a flourish)