Reading Matters: Tapestry Step Six

MEDIA

1. Create the following pages on your blog:
A. Art

B. Media 1

C. Media 2
D. Conclusion

(you should rename these media pages - Picasso, lyrics, video, film, tv show, magazine advertisement etc. once you have selected the genre of the sources)

2. FIND a collection of several images (art, symbols, photographs - your own or borrowed) and two different media sources (films, songs, television shows, newspaper or magazine articles, video games, OR internet applications) that will help you to further reveal the theme you have selected, keeping in mind that you need to present equally the two sides of your theme focus.

For each of the three texts you find, repeat the steps outlined in Part FOUR. Select your sources, include a source excerpt, reflect on its connection to your theme, add images, include MLA citations for each source used on your Works Cited page. Then, reorganize your pages so that the work you have just completed will be placed AFTER the quotation page it relates to. Make sure that you use the ellipses . . . to indicate that the reflection has continued from the previous source, and will continue after it.

3. CONCLUSION: at this point you are ready to write some final concluding thoughts. In the conclusion, you will discuss the patterns that emerged in your Tapestry. You should comment on the ways in which the sources seem to both compliment and/or contradict one another. THINK ABOUT: Have you effectively met your goal or claim you introduced in your myth rationale? Are there still some unanswered questions? Finally, you should comment on the various ways in which the sources seem to encompass the fullness of human experience as it relates to the topic; ie. what are we without "Bravery" in our world? What do you now believe to be true about your theme, human emotion and behaviour?

This is due on the blog by MAY 15, 2012

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