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Pixels & Prose

A Multimedia Literary Lens Project

Summative Assessment: Competency #2: Critical Thinking & Creativity

What's Pixels & Prose: A Multimedia Literary Lens Project?

In this project, you'll identify and use a critical lens - another work of literature/article/song/historical event to connect to a literary work. Through this connection, you'll explore the key themes, imagery, symbolism, and emotional resonance of the literary work.

Using Google Video, you'll create a dynamic multimedia experience that reveals the fullness of the work's meaning and message through the critical lens.

🎞️Final Product Inspiration🎞️

Click here to view a clip from Ken Burns' documentary, Baseball. This will give you a sense of how narration, images, film clips, and music communicate a message.

Start by Getting Organized

Create a sub-folder inside your course folder.
Place all of your all work for this specific summative inside the sub-folder you created.

Prepare

Review the all of your prompt responses/reader's responses to the designated a literary work(s) .
Complete the following assignments in Google Classroom:
- - "Pixels & Prose: SchoolAI Space: In Search of a Theme"
  - Pixels & Prose Research: Justifying Your Critical Lens
  - Pixels & Prose Research: Multimedia Sources

Craft & Draft

😲Click here to see Mrs. Juster's Pixels & Prose Project - developing in real time.

See the "finished" video here.

Draft Your Performance Script

Write out your complete narration/performance, including analysis of your critical lens (See Google Classroom for this document.)
Integrate references to your lens throughout your narration (not just at the beginning or end)
Decide on pacing, emphasis, emotional tone, and delivery style.

Rehearse

Read expressively—vary your pace, volume, and tone
Pause for emphasis and let images resonate
Make your lens analysis feel natural, not forced
Rehearse multiple times; record several takes if possible.

Pixels & Prose: Draft of Performance Script

Create & Record Video

Use Google Video (in waffle)
Copy/paste your full "word for word" script - editing as needed to ensure that:
- - Title slide is readable and includes all required information
  - Critical lens connection is clearly explained and meaningfully woven throughout
Add images
DO NOT record your narration. Parental Permission to do so must be verified.

Edit, Revise & Export to Google Classroom

Before you export your video and submit it to the designated assignment in Google Classroom, review your work to make sure that:

Audio is clear and well-balanced (narration louder than background music)
Images display correctly and match your narration pacing
Video plays smoothly without errors
Runtime is 2 - 3 minutes

All done? Not yet.

Make sure you have submitted your completed summative to the indicated assignment in Google Classroom by the indicated date/time.

Rubric: Pixels & Prose

(You'll get your copy via Google Classroom.)

Pixels & Prose: Rubric

Using my original curriculum materials for a Kiosk Presentation, A Digital Storytelling Project, and a Podcast Project, I collaborated with SchoolAI to reimagine and update these three projects into something new and adapted for current tools for learning.

SchoolAI. Response to: Update Kiosk/Digital Storytelling/Podcast Projects. SchoolAI, 7 Mar. 2026, schoolai.com.

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