Students will create a visual essay using Adobe Express Webpages, similar this example by the New York times, At This Mexican Restaurant, Everyone is Family - The New York Times. Students will describe a physical location, engaging how this location impacts the student’s identity and sense of being and belonging.

An example visual essay is one where a student describes their hometown, and what that location meant to the student when they were growing up, and what that location means to the student now. Another place could be one they have never been to - but aspire to visit / settle in.

Express Web pages is a powerful visual based medium that allows students to write essays with imagery on the forefront - engaging with how imagery affects written words, and vice versa.

Phase 1 - Students learn about the location they will be describing, as well as beginning to collect imagery of their location, preferably imagery taken by the students themselves and / or primary source images.

Phase 2 - Students read heartfelt and personal stories about locations that hold sentimental value to an individual.
Read example essay, At This Mexican Restaurant, Everyone is Family - The New York Times. Note that a similar style of this presentation is achievable in Adobe Express.

Further examples here, Where We Are - The New York Times.

Phase 3 - Students will write their visual essay in a document processor as well as organize their images in a folder to prepare for migration into Adobe Express Webpages.

Phase 4 - Students create their Adobe Express Webpages, with support from the Adobe Trainer and Instructional Designer as necessary.

Phase 5 - Students publish a public URL link for peer review and culminating class presentations of their visual essay.

Research Demonstrates a thorough understanding of context, place, and purpose, with a clear, compelling description of a location that is memorable and strongly supported with visuals and imagery.

Creation Effectively organizes the Adobe Express Webpage in a logical, continuous flow leveraging imagery to enhance the written word, as well as a clear understanding of balance and contrast, knowing when to use images, and when to use words as an asset of persuasion.

Engagement Shares anecdotes, as well as personal, and emotional stories about a location, and what that location means to the student.

Example of a visual essay created using placeholder text and images took during travels to Vietnam, my parents' country of birth.

Step by step instructional PDF for creating a web page in Adobe Express Web pages.