Autobiograzine Prompt
Cover:
Choose one of your ancestors and introduce yourself on the page
Write their name, draw/ write your greeting and intro
Page 1: “I know you…” Write/draw things you know about the
Page 2: “I imagine you…” Write/draw things you imagine about them
Begin the interview - Write to ask the question and leave a space after each question (in any way- you can draw an empty speech bubble for the responses, and draw below what comes up for you. (maybe: showing some examples)
Page 3: Ask them: What’s your favorite season? Write the question and Leave an empty space for them at the top.
Draw below:
Page 4: What do you love eating during this season?
Write the question and Leave an empty space for them at the top.
Draw below:
Page 5: Who do you love being with during this season? What do you do together?
Page 6: If we were together, what could we do? What does that look like?
Draw yourselves together
Back cover page: Draw a gift for your ancestor.
Can be anything: an object, a plant, a food, a symbol, a phrase…
Delicious Memory Prompt
Cover: Recall a delicious memory. Draw an object associated with that memory.
Page 1. Draw yourself in this moment, when this delicious memory happened.
Page 2. Write a title. In present tense, first person, write about what happened
Page 3. Draw a moment before this was delicious
Add speech or thought bubbles
Draw a frame around this scene
Page 4. Write, in present tense first person, about this scene.
Page 5. Return to the moment of “deliciousness”. Draw a frame on your page to ‘activate the page’. Draw the full scene, with people/other, a background, speech/thought bubbles.
Page 6. Write, as you are now. What it feels like to remember this. Why might this be significant in Page.8
Back cover: Draw another object that came to mind out of this process.
Make sure to write your name and date on the zine