Inquiry tasks 2 and 3 are due Monday, November 14th
Inquiry Task #2: Like this example, working with a partner create a historical timeline of events leading up to the Italian Renaissance (choose a relevant image for the background).
Inquiry Task #3: To prepare for the next task, choose one of the topics below (only one group per class per topic) and then using the Talking to the Text format, work with a partner to take notes on your topic.
Inquiry Task 4 is due Tuesday, November 15th
Based on your event or development (e.g., The Crusades, The Silk Road), work with your partner to create a visually appealing Pages document with accompanying image briefly describing how this development contributed and led to the Italian Renaissance.
Do this in the form of a SES paragraph briefly describing the event (two sentences maximum) and then state how this event led to the Renaissance. Further develop and explain these reasons, and then provide specific supporting details such as examples, statistics, and other relevant facts to back up and show what you mean. Assessment rubric
The podcast reflection on your graphic novel is due Friday, November 18th via email.
Description: Now that you have made your short story into a graphic novel, take some time to reflect on the entire process. You have been fully immersed in the medium of the graphic novel for the past month and have learned to tell a story creatively just as a real writer would. Part of your task was to address the theme of your short story and be able to effectively convey what the writer is saying about the human condition.
Using a SES framework, your task is to now complete a podcast reflection where you provide your own insights to the questions below. This means that you will State: provide a clear response to the question, Explain: what do you mean by this, and Support: with specific examples from your work or the short story.
A: How did these elements point toward the theme in your short story?
B: How did these elements find their way into your graphic novel to illustrate the theme of the story?
PART B Character motivations and figurative language are powerful indicators of the theme in short stories.
A: How did these elements point toward the theme in your short story?
B: How did these elements find their way into your graphic novel to illustrate the theme of the story?
PART C These elements all point to the underlying theme of the story.
Overall, what do you believe was the underlying idea or central message the author was trying to communicate to the reader?
Remember this is not a simple moral message and often offers a commentary on what it means to be human or to live in the world. Support your response by offering specific supporting reasons in the forms of details and quotes from the story, as to why you believe what you do.
