How to do a one pager

Students might include quotations, ideas, images, analysis, key names and dates, and more. They might use their one–pagers to make connections to their own lives, to art or films, to pop culture, to what they’re learning in their other classes. They might even do it all.

A good general rule is two to three paragraphs a page. But there’s considerable flexibility here, too. So, perhaps it’s better to look at paragraphs another way, from the inside. Instead of surveying the paper as a whole, you can count sentences within paragraphs.

A one pager is a single-page response to your reading. It is a way of making your pattern of your unique understanding. It is a way to be creative and experimental. It is a way to respond imaginatively and honestly. It is a way to be brief and compressed.