Week 10: Monday, 10/26 – Friday, 10/30 

Unit 3: Multimodal Project 

By end-of-day Monday, 10/26

WRITING:

  • Unit 2: Annotated Bibliography Due 

Micro-Activity #15: Reflecting on the Research Process

  • Write a post reflecting on the research process and what you learned. Consider the following questions in your paragraph (approx. 250 words):
    • What did you find difficult about doing this type of research? What did you learn about doing this type of research that you can take to future classes?
    • Submit Unit 2: At the end of today’s post, link out to a google document of your annotated bibliography. Make sure I have the ability to edit your document.
  • Before publishing your post, make sure you do the following:
    • Title it “Micro-Activity #15: Reflecting on the Research Process”
    • Pick the category “Week 10 Work”
    • Set the visibility of this post to “private,” Go to the top left corner of the post page, click on the word “edit” next to “Visibility: Public” and choose private.
By end-of-day Wednesday, 10/28

READING:

WRITING:

 Comments

  • Look at the images from March by Andrew Aydin, Maus by Art Spiegleman, and Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. Told through the perspective of the late John Lewis (civil rights leader and U.S. Congressman), March is a series of graphic novels about the civil rights movement. Maus, a graphic novel by Art Spiegleman, depicts the author’s father’s experiences as a Holocaust survivor. Persepolis is an autobiographical graphic novel by Marjori Sartrapi that was turned into a film. Persepolis tells of the author’s experience living through the Islamic Revolution in Iran.
    • Here is a page from March. Also browse through a few of the other images below.
    • Here is a page from Maus. Also browse through some of the other pages available on amazon when you click to look inside the book.
    • Here the official trailer of Persepolis. Also browse through some of the pages of the book the movie is based on. It is available on amazon when you click to look inside the book.
  • Use commenting to respond to the following Discussion questions on March, Maus, and Persepolis: Why do you think Aydin, Spiegleman, and Satrapi decided to inform readers about these important, historical events using multimodal texts (graphic novels and film) rather than writing traditional novels or historical essays? By looking at these samples, can  you predict how reading or watching the entire novel or film might affect the way you understand, feel, react to each author’s subject?
  • Use commenting to respond to the following Discussion question on composing multimodal texts: March, Maus, and Persepolis are examples of multimodal texts as are the videos about multimodal writing.  Have you ever worked on a multimodal piece? How did it go? What are you excited about? What are you worried about?