Road
Signs Mini Poster
East of Eden
(Student
Exemplar)
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Dangerous
Descent
in East of Eden
This
road sign applies to Cathy Trask in John Steinbeck’s East of Eden.
Cathy is truly an evil woman.
She cannot understand goodness in others and sees it as a
weakness. She attacks
anyone who tries to exert control over her.
As a teenager, she kills any inconvenient lovers and kills her
parents when she wants to leave home.
She marries Adam Trask, but she drugs him on their wedding night
and sleeps with his brother, Charles.
She gets pregnant and tries to abort her twin babies but does not
succeed. When the
(un-named) babies are a month old, she shoots Adam and runs away,
leaving her sons behind. She
becomes a prostitute named Kate, goes into business with Faye, another
madam, and poisons her to gain financial control of the brothel.
Giddy with the money left to her by her now dead business
partner, Kate discovers she has also inherited half of Charles Trask’s
wealthy estate.
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You
have just completed John Steinbeck’s East
of Eden.
Road sign messages often can apply to life and even literary characters
in some way. Decide which of the
following signs depicts one of the characters in East
of Eden.
Make a sign using the road sign saying and provide graphics to further
help audience understanding of how the sign, saying, and graphics offer
insight into a particular character. Before
you begin, please take note of colors used on signs all around the world and
what the colors indicate: yellow
and black, warning;
green and white, guide signs; orange
and black, construction signs; red,
negative information and warning; blue,
positive signal of a required action or a feature that you can take advantage
of; brown and white, recreation signs
(like State Parks). Shapes also
indicate something to the public: triangles
indicate warnings; circles are
restrictions or requirements; diamond
shapes indicate priority; squares and
rectangles give guidance.
Use
a 12” x 18” piece of white or colored paper for this assignment. Somewhere
on your poster indicate the title and a pertinent quote from the
book that helps emphasize the road sign saying.
Grading criteria: insight into character and/or themes of East
of Eden,
use of space, appropriateness of saying, color, and shape to the
particular character/theme; neatness. Be ready to present your poster
in class along with a one page written explanation of the mini-poster.
East
of Eden characters for you to consider:
Adam Trask, Cathy/Kate Trask, Cal
Trask, Aron Trask, Abra Bacon
BEWARE
OF DOG
BUCKLE
UP
CHILDREN
PLAYING
DANGER
: NO SWIMMING
ROAD
NARROWS
DANGEROUS
DESCENT
DETOUR
DO
NOT BLOCK INTERSECTION
DO
NOT DISTURB
EMERGENCY
EXIT ONLY
EVACUATION
ROUTE
EXTINGUISH
ALL SMOKING MATERIALS
FALLING
ROCK
FIRE
LANE
HAIRPIN
TURN AHEAD
IN
CASE OF FIRE USE STAIRS
KEEP
OFF OF THE GRASS
LOOSE
GRAVEL
NO
DELIVERIES DURING LUNCH
NO
DUMPING
NO
LEFT TURN
NO
PARKING HERE TO CURB
NO
PASSING ZONE
NO
RIGHT TURN
NO
SALESMEN
NO
STOPPING OR STANDING
NO
TRESPASSING
NO
U-TURN
ONE
WAY
OPEN
OTHER END
PASSING
PROHIBITED
POST
NO BILLS
REFRIGERATE
AFTER OPENING
REMAIN
SEATED WHILE VEHICLE IS IN MOTION
RESERVED
FOR HANDICAPPED
RESERVED
PARKING
REST
AREA
RIGHT
TURN ON RED AFTER STOP
ROAD
ENDS IN WATER
ROAD NARROWS
SLIPPERY
WHEN WET
SMOKING
IN DESIGNATED AREAS
ONLY
SPEED
RADAR ENFORCED
STOP
SWING
BRIDGE
UNDER
CONSTRUCTION
VIOLATORS
WILL BE PERSECUTED
VISITORS
MUST CHECK IN AT OFFICE
WET
PAINT
YIELD
TO PEDESTRIANS