Smart Phone Literature Project Day Two

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Objective

SWBAT articulate connections among literary works and modern culture through writing, imagemaking, and discussion.

Big Idea

"Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se." ---Charles Eames

Lesson Author

Elizabeth Watts Bromery, Ph.D.

Pembroke Pines, FL

Grade Level

Twelfth grade

Subjects

English / Language Arts

Iliad

Literature

Media and Technology

Listening and Speaking

Standards

RL.11-12.10

By the end of grade 11, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 11-CCR text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. By the end of grade 12, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, at the high end of the grades 11-CCR text complexity band independently and proficiently.

W.11-12.7

Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question) or solve a problem; narrow or broaden the inquiry when appropriate; synthesize multiple sources on the subject, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.

W.11-12.9

Draw evidence form literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.

SL.11-12.1

Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 11-12 topics, texts, and issues, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.

Lesson Overview and Note to Teachers

My classes are held in 100-minute sessions every other day. Activities take about 80 minutes of four class sessions to complete.

The lesson below outlines Day Two of activities. Students continue working on a project in which they design two Smart Phone desktops (Assignment: SmartPhone Literature Project) to find and articulate connections among major literary works we have studied, and between literature and contemporary culture. Please take a look at student work and the narration video for the Beowulf Smart Phone desktop.

Please refer back to Day One if you have questions about the assignment.

Small-Group Collaboration: Smart Phone Literature Project

80 minutes

Reflection

Today students get back into their groups to continue working on their two Smart Phone desktops. Groups are required to create one desktop on a chosen character from Macbeth and one desktop on a chosen character from another major literary work we have read this year, such as Beowulf, the Iliad, or The Canterbury Tales.

One group creates a project on Beowulf (Student Work: Beowulf Smart Phone Project). Please view the video narration (Narration: Beowulf Smart Phone Desktop) in this section.

Groups will finish their desktops next class, Day Three, and present their work on Day Four.

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