Theme Development

I love COOKIES!!!

Basic Ingredients Cover

o Theme fontso Theme Meaningo Graphic

Representationso Possible colors

should start here

Basic Ingredients Endsheets

o Great Place for the table of contents

Basic Ingredients Title Page

o Name of Booko School name

and complete address, phone, fax, e-mail

o Volume numbero School

population

Basic Ingredients Opening

o Sets the toneoGives reason why you chose the

theme you did

Basic Ingredients Division Pages

o Consider spin-offs within each division so that the division page mirrors the opening but also introduces something new

Basic Ingredients Closing

o Mirrors the opening and brings the book to a nice, logical conclusion

o Colophon

Chocolate chips, sprinkles, and icing

Other places to use theme:o Folioso Fontso Headlineso Layouto Gimmickso Photoso Graphics

Cooking Directions Theme Types

o Prideo Actual Evento Slogano Anniversaryo Funo Geographic

Landmarko Double-Edged

Don’t overdose on the sugar!

Don’t have too much of a good thing – theme doesn’t have to be on every page.

Or, if it is, make it subtle.

Gathering the Ingredients

When I think of my school, these five words come to mind:

Gathering the ingredients

Five most unique things about my school are:

Gathering the ingredients

Other schools in our league say this about us:

Gathering the Ingredients

We are a lot lie an Oreo cookie in this way:o On the outside

we look like – o But on the inside

we are really –

Gathering the Ingredients

We are a lot like a chocolate chip cookie in this way:o The dough of

our school is – o The chocolate

chips are –

Letting the Cookies Bake…

While we let our ideas bounce around in our head, let’s examine how other schools developed their theme.