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Creating Multimodal Compositions

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Dry-Interactive Timeline I knew very quickly once I began reading Dry by Neal and Jarrod Shusterman that I wanted to create an interactive timeline for this book. The events in the book take place over a very short period of time and there are some major events. I also knew that I wanted civic engagement to be a component of my timeline since Dry is a cli-fi novel. Rather than incorporate images and videos that might have told the story of the book, I chose to use videos, images, and websites that would educate people on climate change while also highlighting the importance of water and how the world could potentially run dry one day. I used the dates from the novel with a short synopsis of what was occurring on that day and then included different media on climate change and water. I really enjoyed the process of creating a multimodal response, maybe a little more than I thought I would.  multimodal composition - Bing When I started to think about the types of media I wanted to ...
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Feminist Lens Text Set

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As someone who is quite fond of applying critical lenses to texts and movies, I decided to create a text set to help students learn how to apply these lenses. I chose to focus on a feminist lens for this text set but others could be applied as well; reader response, for example, can be used with all literary works, but a critical race lens, and psychoanalytic lens, among others, may also be applied to some of these texts. Given the topic of the text set and themes of some of the texts, I imagine this would be most appropriate for a diverse 11th or 12th grade high school class. The main reading in this set is a novel by Khaled Hosseini calle d A Thousand Splendid Suns . I went back and forth quite a bit between this and Cracking India by Bapsi Sidhwa, but wanted a title with a male author to use in conjunction with various Wisconsin State Standards that ask students to question the author’s life and background and how it may influence the story or characters in the story. Both of these ...
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Visualizing Lenses

  Feminist Lens Graphic As a future English Language Arts teacher, who hopes to teach at the high school level, I wanted to create a visual lesson for a topic that I thought might be confusing for some. I know that some people have a difficult time with critical lenses so that felt like a good way to go. I first thought about creating a visual for several critical lenses but figured that would be overwhelming and there wouldn't really be enough time to go over everything that needs to be covered in a single class period. I eventually settled on the feminist lens because I thought it would be the most fun to make.  Creating this graphic was more challenging than I had initially assumed it would be because I wanted to use references to movies or TV shows that would be relevant to and representative of all teens. I also wanted the images or scenes to be fairly obvious in their depictions of women so there was no confusion in what a person should be looking for. I picked a few que...
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