Project Idea
The Meaning of Dreaming
1. Overview
Dreams always have underlying meanings to them and tend to emanate from events in your personal life. Have you ever wondered what a dream meant or what it was telling you? Students will be writing about a dream they have had, research and then analyze it. They will then create art depicting the dream or how it made them feel. Students can choose several different ways to express their dream: poem, painting, short story, or sculpture.
2. Essential question
What do your dreams mean? How can you resolve them?
3. Content covered
Beforehand, the students will learn the history of psychology. Throughout the project students will work on their writing, researching and creativity.
4. Skills developed
The skills that the students will develop will be better writing, researching, analysis, and creativity skills. In addition to those skills, the students will hopefully learn more about themselves.
5. Products
The students will document their dream and include an analysis and create a representation of their dream.
6. Presentation
Students will be presenting their work at exhibition and their audience can be anybody because their background for the project is easy to understand.
7. Assessment
Dream and Dream Analysis Paper
-at least two pages
-12 point font
-Times New Roman
-double spaced
-works cited for analysis
-must answer essential questions
Short Story
Students have the option of writing another dream that they make up and include elements that they learned from their original analysis.
-at least two pages
-12 point font
-Times New Roman
-double spaced
-must include a resolution in the dream
Painting/Sculpture
-must show how the dream made them feel or how they imagine the dream
Poem
-at least one page
-12 point font
-Times New Roman
-double spaced
-must talk about how the dream made them feel
8. Calendar
Week One: Think of past dreams and write them down. Choose one dream.
Week Two:
Type dream. Final dream due typed. Start research on analysis of dream.
Week Three:
Finish research on dream and type analysis of dream. Dream analysis due typed.
Week Four:
Draft art aspect, revise, start art aspect. If short story, story outline is due.
Week Five:
Final art aspect due. If short story, draft of short story is due.
Week Six:
Final short story due.
1. Overview
Dreams always have underlying meanings to them and tend to emanate from events in your personal life. Have you ever wondered what a dream meant or what it was telling you? Students will be writing about a dream they have had, research and then analyze it. They will then create art depicting the dream or how it made them feel. Students can choose several different ways to express their dream: poem, painting, short story, or sculpture.
2. Essential question
What do your dreams mean? How can you resolve them?
3. Content covered
Beforehand, the students will learn the history of psychology. Throughout the project students will work on their writing, researching and creativity.
4. Skills developed
The skills that the students will develop will be better writing, researching, analysis, and creativity skills. In addition to those skills, the students will hopefully learn more about themselves.
5. Products
The students will document their dream and include an analysis and create a representation of their dream.
6. Presentation
Students will be presenting their work at exhibition and their audience can be anybody because their background for the project is easy to understand.
7. Assessment
Dream and Dream Analysis Paper
-at least two pages
-12 point font
-Times New Roman
-double spaced
-works cited for analysis
-must answer essential questions
Short Story
Students have the option of writing another dream that they make up and include elements that they learned from their original analysis.
-at least two pages
-12 point font
-Times New Roman
-double spaced
-must include a resolution in the dream
Painting/Sculpture
-must show how the dream made them feel or how they imagine the dream
Poem
-at least one page
-12 point font
-Times New Roman
-double spaced
-must talk about how the dream made them feel
8. Calendar
Week One: Think of past dreams and write them down. Choose one dream.
Week Two:
Type dream. Final dream due typed. Start research on analysis of dream.
Week Three:
Finish research on dream and type analysis of dream. Dream analysis due typed.
Week Four:
Draft art aspect, revise, start art aspect. If short story, story outline is due.
Week Five:
Final art aspect due. If short story, draft of short story is due.
Week Six:
Final short story due.