DIRECTIONS

Select a key theoretical term you have learned in connection with literacy studies and create a series of comic-boo-like panels that explains the term.

If you don't want to draw your own panels, use photographs, cut-out images, photocopies of other comics with the dialogue erased, etc.

Your comic should have the following characteristics:

• The project should employ the affordances (capabilities) of the medium and mode(s) in effective rhetorical ways.

• The project should explain a key term using both action and dialogue bubbles.

• The project should add information value to our discussion of literacy issues/themes— in terms of your own life and/or in terms of the relationships among such issues/themes.

•The project should be instructive, that is inventive/creative/ insightful.

 

GOALS

•Your comic-book project should help members of the class gain additional insight on a key literacy term that we have covered in class and/or your relationship/understanding of this term.

• The comic-book project should help you explore and use the affordances of comic books as a medium.

•The comic-book project should be instructive, that is inventive/creative/ insightful.

HINTS FOR SUCCESS

• Make sure your comic-book project explains the literacy term you have chosen.

• Make sure your comic-book project effectively employs the specific affordances(capabilities) of the particular medium (comic books) and the particular modes (images, words/dialogue) you have chosen. (e.g., don't try to write a book in a series of comic-book panels.

See the evaluation sheet below for the criteria on which this assignment will be graded.

EVALUATION

Term's not accurately explained<—> Term explained well

Comment:

Project has low IV<—––––––––––———> Project has high IV
(IV = information value)

Comment:

Ineffective use of affordances<—>Effective use of affordances

Comment:

less than Creative/insightful<—>Very Creative/Insightful

Comment:

 

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