Today at the beginning of class you took a short quiz over Wheeler's essay. I then asked you to do a bit of writing about a panel or series of panels in Bell's comic OR about the ways in which disability is portrayed in El Deafo. I then asked the four discussion leaders to start off our discussion of the comic. We spent some time as a large group discussing the images and ideas you were interested in within Bell's work.
Critical Approaches to El Deafo: Wheeler
Next I asked you to work with a small group to answer a series of questions about Wheeler's essay: "No Monsters in This Fairy Tale: Wonder and the New Children's Literature." You can access that exercise HERE. This final source is significant because it allows you to see the ways in which you might locate a topic or an idea that a scholar has identified within a text and apply it to another similar text. Each group then presented on their series of questions, pointing the class to the places within Wheeler and Bell's texts that can be used to explore questions of disability within children's literature.
Important Upcoming Due Dates...
Next week, on April 12, we will NOT have class. Instead, you will meet with me individually for 30 minutes in our classroom to discuss your poster proposal and your final writing project. Please see the individual conference sign up sheet linked on the left hand side of the blog and make note of your conference time. DO NOT MISS YOUR INDIVIDUAL CONFERENCE (it will count as an absence, and you will not be able to present your poster the following week). Please bring BOTH of the following items to your conference: a draft of your poster slide (you can just bring your laptop or device), your completed final writing project planning outline (page 4 of the Final Writing Project Assignment Sheet), AND any questions you might have about either project. At the end of class today we went over the grading rubric for the poster presentation and the final writing project. You can access those documents HERE and HERE and on the left hand side of the course blog under course documents. We spent some time going over how the poster presentation day will go and what we will do during the final exam week. Your final poster slide is due to me via email by Friday, April 15 at midnight. Please save your slide as YourFirstNameLastName3830Poster. If you do not save your slide with the correct name or email it to me by the deadline, you will take a zero and not be able to present your work. On Tuesday, April 19 everyone will present their poster. Students will take notes and ask questions of the presenters. You can access those questions HERE. Once everyone has sent me their work, I will post a schedule that includes your title and presentation time. At the end of class today I handed around a poster presentation sign up sheet. You can access that filled in document HERE and on the left hand side of the blog. During finals week, our class will meet Tuesday, April 26 from 5-7pm and you will turn in and present your final writing project to the group. You will talk for approximately 5-10 minutes and read or show a selection from your project to the group.Key Questions From Class
How is disability portrayed in 21st century children's literature? What are the three models of disability, and how are these models addressed in Bell's El Deafo? What is Rosemarie Garland-Thomas’s theory of staring, and how might this theory play out in Bell's comic? How is the carnivalesque featured in Bell's El Deafo?
Homework
- Work on poster slide AND final writing project
- Individual Conferences Next Week (no class, bring your poster slide draft and completed final project planning outline to your conference)
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