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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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The Writing Process

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 As I sit here and try to figure out what my writing process looks like I struggle to find one technique or set of rules I follow for every piece of writing I do. My writing process very much depends on what I am writing but typically follows a goal-driven process similar to the one outlined in “A Cognitive Process Theory of Writing” by Linda Flower and John R. Hayes. Flower’s and Hayes’ mention writers working under a “high-level goal or plan to explore: that is, to think the topic over, to jot ideas down, or just start writing to see what they have to say,” (382). This is certainly something I do but it takes many different forms, usually resulting from the question, “What am I going to say about this?” Depending on the topic or the type of genre being written, the first step in my process likely involves note taking, which I consider as part of “exploring”. I start by researching the topic with the hope to really narrow the scope of my topic. Once I’ve taken notes from several...
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