Agenda: Week 10

Monday, 10/26 – Friday, 10/30 

Unit 3: Multimodal Project 

By end-of-day Monday, 10/26, the following activities are DUE (end-of-day means 11:59 PM):

• Unit 2: Annotated Bibliography Due 
• Post your Unit 2 Writing Assignment under Student Work: Unit 2 Work.
  • We’re going to post our Unit 2 Writing Assignments like we posted our Unit 1 Writing Assignments.
  • Need a refresher on how to do this? Check the Course Profile for instructions on how to save a Google Doc or a Word Doc to a PDF and post on the website.

• Write a post titled Full Name, Micro-Activity #15 under Student Work: Unit 2 Work 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?

By end-of-day Wednesday, 10/28, the following activities are DUE (end-of-day means 11:59 PM):

• Watch these videos: Multimodal Texts and ENG121:Strategies for Composing Multimodal Texts.
• Read through the assignment guidelines for Unit 3: Multimodal Project.

• Go to my Discussion Question about the Unit 3: Multimodal Project guidelines and list any questions you have about the assignment.

• 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.
• Write a post titled Full Name, Micro-Activity #16under Student Work: Unit 3 Work in which you respond to the following for Micro-Activity #16 (approx. 150-200):
  • 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?
  • These 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?