How graphic texts are being used in my classes

When this busy time of the semester is over, I will be adding more of the details of the ways that we are using the graphic texts and the iPads but here is a brief overview:

ENG 2L1 (Jessica's class) - Grade 10 Locally Developed English

• Review of the conventions and format for reading and understanding graphic novels
• Novel study of Marvel's The Wizard of Oz

ENG 2P1 - Grade 10 Applied Level English

• Review of conventions of graphic texts
• Daily reading using comics
• Graphic texts and short stories
• Using Hawkeye V.2 "Pizza Dog" for making inferences (developed with my PATH student Dan St. Amour) and writing in role
• Culminating Activity: Create your own Superhero

ENG 3C1 - Grade 11 College Level English

• Conventions of Graphic Novels
• Reading Graphic Novels
• Literature Circle novel study - Graphic Texts
• Make your own Prequel/Sequel - Culminating Activity

NBE 3U1 -Contemporary Aboriginal Voices in English

• Combining graphic and written texts (The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie)
• Trickster: Native American Tales, A Graphic Collection
• Study of Nanabush retold by Dr. Daphne Odjig

Much more detail to come...

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