Unit 3 Assignment Links & Information

Link: Full assignment description

Multimodal Project Due Thursday, May 9

What does “multimodal” mean? Here is a basic definition to consider: “Multimodal writing assignments…combine traditional textual elements with pictures, data visualizations, video, sound, animation, etc.” (Purdue OWL). You might also look at “What is Multimodality?” by Melanie Gagich

Mentor Texts

• “College Students and Social Media” by Chelsea Harrison
• Twitter thread about black holes
• “Bad Future, Better Future” by Julia Rosen
• “Love and Black Lives, in Pictures Found on a Brooklyn Street” by Annie Correal.
• “The Strange Lives of Objects in the Coronavirus Era” by Sophie Haigney.
• “I Am Stuck Between Two Lives During This Pandemic” by Lucie Langston.
• “100 New Yorkers” by Mona Chalabi.
• “2020 Can Go to Hell” by Jack Healy.
• 1619 Project (NYT Magazine).
• CTE Youth Football by Kassie Bracken
• How COVID has deepened inequality — in six stark graphics by Saima Sidik