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Google Earth
Google Earth
Google Earth allows students to add information/images into a map to consider how space and place impacts their analysis.
They might consider how Martin Luther King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail" appears in the geography of Birmingham or use mapping to demonstrate their understanding of a historical or cultural event.
See the video for a brief overview on how Google Earth works and reach out to the Media Center for a class visit.
Our Assignment
Our Assignment
Deep Mapping: A method in Digital Humanities that connects together the historical, folkloric, traditional, and natural histories of a place. It often layers those different types of information to facilitate their connections.
Think about your “Home,” probably a town, state, or country that you feel a personal connection with. Using Google Earth, create a Deep Map of your space.
Create a map in Google Earth based around your selected location
Select 8–10 Key Spots in that Place that have influenced you
For each Key Spot, add a picture and brief description of its historical/natural and personal meanings
What are its Historical/Natural Elements (Setting) and why is it important to you? Do some quick research if you need to!
Consider the different aspects of setting. What is it like in different seasons, what is the climate/weather, what is its history, etc.
This map became brainstorming for a poem about how place impacts identity.
Adobe Express
Adobe Express
Adobe Express is a video and photo editing program, basically a light version of Photoshop or Premiere.
It is as user friendly as Canva and has more resources readily available. Brief overview on using the program.
Reach out to the Media Center for information about its full potential and an in-class demonstration of the different tools.
Frankenstein Adaptation Project
Frankenstein Adaptation Project
Context: Monsters in literature often leave a lot to the imagination. Authors intentionally evade details to evoke the presence/aura of the creature and leave room for reader interpretation. As more monster stories become adapted into movies or tv shows, producers and directors have to make choices about how they will represent their monster. Their choices reflect their purpose and what they want the viewer to take away from the story.
Steps:
Choose a group of 3–4 producers to create your movie trailer.
Decide on a theme for your trailer. What do you want to emphasize about Frankenstein that you want to represent in your story?
Whose interpretation are you going to prioritize? Does it matter what the author thinks (biographical)? The fans (reader response)? The text itself (New Criticism)?
What themes do you want to emphasize? Ethical, Psychological, Gender, or something else?
What does your depiction of the monster say about your fears/desires (Monster Theory)?
Consider what scenes (evidence) from the text you will reference to emphasize that theme.
Write a script or storyboard to plan out the trailer.
Start filming and editing the project. Your movie trailer should be 2.5–3 minutes long.
Each group member should write an Individual Reflection about the trailer you all created. In your reflection, write about:
What you contributed to the project.
How the choices you made as a group help build a specific interpretation of the text. Discuss specific scenes you included, the overall theme, and its connection to the Critical Lenses/Monster Theory.
The Individual Reflection should be 1–2 pages.
11th ELA Performance Final American Literature Performance Final
American Literature Performance Final
Students are required to make a multimedia presentation or video with Adobe Express. Students select a free choice book where the protagonist overcomes some sort of challenge. The final project is compiling a presentation of their novel summary with a significant quote, having a research connection where one topic from the novel is researched and how the characters could utilize what you learned to help their community change for the better, and finally have some alternate form of media (poem, song, art, etc) that thematically ties into the novel.
Adobe Podcast
Adobe Podcast
Ready to try something outside an essay? Something to encourage students to share their ideas orally, but without the pressure of a public presentation? Something that forces them to add their voice outside an AI-generated answer?
Podcasts offer an option, and with Adobe Podcast you can avoid phones and their garbled audio. This program removes background noise and enhances audio so that speakers are easily heard.
On the right, we were even able to take on old recording of William Faulkner and enhance it to hear his words a little better.
The samples below demonstrate the type of product encouraged in this type of assignment, but created without Adobe Podcast (a time we were still learning). If we had used Adobe Podcast, they would have been easier to listen to on our end and we could have cut down on some technological issues.
Our Assignment
Our Assignment
Choose a poet into whom you are interested in doing a deep dive. List of some potential poets (you are welcome to choose a poet not on the list as well).
Find 3 poems from your selected poet that you will annotate (submit a Google Doc with your 3 poems by the end of school on April 20 so I can print them out for you)
Annotate! As you annotate, you should:
Color 1: Summarize the stanzas
Color 2: Identify a Shift
Color 3: Infer a Theme (the Why)
Color 4: Identify literary devices that demonstrate the Shift and Why
Research the poet and their background to gain broader context. I recommend listening to a podcast or interview with the poet, if available.
Brainstorm some thoughts about how the poet’s life may influence what you’ve seen in their poetry.
Outline your Spoken Essay
Come up with a Thesis Statement about a theme that defines your poet’s work
Each “paragraph” should address a major aspect of the idea your poet discusses, how it shows up in your three selected poems, how literary devices help emphasize the idea, and how it comes back to a theme (a why) for your poet.
Record your Spoken Essay. You may have your outline, but this should be a free-spoken discussion (not reading word-for-word, except quotations).
Cricut Designs
Cricut Designs
The Media Center has access to Cricut software and technology to design and create vinyl products, such as t-shirts, mugs, etc. These can be used for specialty projects with students or for yourself.
Reach out to learn more about different options and projects that work within your area.
See the newsletter LEAP students created using Adobe Express about their processes and experience learning the Cricut here!
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