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Inquiring Into the Possibilities of Multimodal Novel Study: Teacher Candidates Respond to Whirligig With Resolution Scrapbooks
Author(s) -
Morawski Cynthia Marlene
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of adolescent and adult literacy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.73
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1936-2706
pISSN - 1081-3004
DOI - 10.1002/jaal.00049
Subject(s) - dilemma , meaning (existential) , psychology , resolution (logic) , pedagogy , relation (database) , mathematics education , literature , psychoanalysis , epistemology , art , psychotherapist , philosophy , computer science , artificial intelligence , database
To underscore the importance of using multiple means of engagement in adolescent novels, the author invited the teacher candidates in one of her intermediate English methods classes to use the resolution scrapbooka reflective and multimodal chronicling of an individual's response to traumato study the coming‐of‐age novel Whirligig , by Paul Fleischman. The teacher candidates constructed six‐page resolution scrapbooks in which they responded to the protagonist's retribution journey by using multiple forms of expressions and representations in relation to past and current contexts of his life, thereby entering into the story and making meaning of the protagonist's dilemma.