Wanted Poster

If your students are doing a character profile, for Reading or for development of character for writing, creating a Wanted Poster is a great way to explore character traits.

Create your poster as a Wanted Poster for a character (an antagonist/protagonist in your novel or story (or some other character you find interesting) Include in the information Name, last seen, physical description, special features and known associates.

Two iPad Apps will be used

Create an avatar using Avatar Creator

Create Poster using Pic Collage

• get a background image of a scroll  or old paper (portrait view)
• open Pic Collage and create a new Collage
• Make your background a scroll/old paper
• Add pictures, text drawings etc, following the criteria below

Poster must include:

1. The word Wanted in large black type at the top of the poster
2. The Reason(s) Your Character is wanted for directly below the word Wanted
3. Your Character’s Name
4. A Detailed Image of Your Character (Avatar)
5. A Detailed Physical Description of your character

• description of face and body features
• description of clothes
• description of  accessories

6. A Detailed Personality Description of your character

• Personality traits such as mean, shy, happy

7. A reasonable reward
8. A last seen statement : Last seen headed for Charlie Lake
9. Who to contact if seen
10. An alias
11. Known Associates