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Publish a Multimedia E-book on AAPI Biography! (Grades 4-7)
Class Sold out. Sign up for the waitlist: https://tinyurl.com/AAPIBIOGrade4-7
Instructor: NextGen Humanities Dept.
When:
1/26-4/13 (Wednesdays, 10 sessions) No class on 2/23, 4/6
4:00-5:00P.M. PST /7:00-8:00P.M. EST
Class description
Write and publish a biography multimedia E-book in the world's first student-made AAPI online library and present at Young Author Talk Forum and library/community event!
In this hands-on, highly interactive project-based learning class, students will:
- Research and write a socially conscious biography with their unique voice
- Draw illustrations or comics: character development, storyboard/plot, narrative arc, setting, dialog through panels, inking and coloring
- Add audios, music, and video to the E-book
- Learn about the publishing process and publish the E-book
- Read each other's books and give constructive feedback
- Learn how to share their E-book on social media for the book launch
- Present their books and do an author talk to the community/real world audience at a local library with other authors!
NextGen Edu 21st Century Skills and Mindset:
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Research skills
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Media literacy and critical thinking
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Multimedia creative design
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Comics and illustration
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movie-making
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Informational and narrative writing
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Digital publishing
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Grit and Growth mindset
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Goals and Intrinsic motivation
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Audience awareness and empathy
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Class size
Min: 6 kids
Max: 8 kids (plus 1 Teaching assistant. We will provide a need-based scholarship/tuition waiver to 1 extra student/each class.)Notes
Curriculum designed by Dr. Jiang Pu. Lesson plans developed by Dr. Pu & Oliver Chin. We'll use Oliver Chin's "Awesome Asian Americians: 20 Stars Who Made America Amazing" as our mentor text. We have hand-picked some of the best biographies as reference books. The book list will be sent out to our students 1 week before the classes. APPs that will be used for making the E-books, comics, and videos will be shared in the first week of class.
Watch a video about this class
About Instructor
https://www.nextgeneducationus.org/teachers
- Our teachers are published authors and university teachers graduated from/teach at Harvard, UC Berkeley and UT Austin.