One of the ultimate ways to disrupt people's thinking is through the unexpected. For example, when we think of stories, we think of them as being told through one medium--we read stories through prose in books, and we watch stories through visual media in movies and tv shows. Yet, there are times that authors experiment with form, telling stories through multiple media and genre. This lesson is designed to help us disrupt our thinking about YA literature. As you will see below, there are multiple ways to tell a story. We are only limited by our imaginations.
Writing essays and creating posters is not the only way students can demonstrate their understanding of a book or concept. Exposing students to a variety of texts and asking them to use these texts as mentor texts to model new forms of composition is another way to help disrupt their thinking.
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For this challenge, you will use the book you read as a mentor text and create a response that mimics the form of the book. This means that if your book tells its story through a series of interviews, photos, and prose, your response should also have a series of interviews (fictional), photos, and prose. (If you read a more technologically-advanced book that requires skills such as game-programming that you do not have, see me for an alternate option.)
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Your response should include the following:
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The title and author
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Quotes from the book
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Insights into the characters
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Key events
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Connections to other books, world events, self
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An analysis of the effectiveness of the form
