Write and publish a Biography Multimedia E-book in the world's first student-made AAPI online library, Make a book trailer movie, and present at the Young Author Talk Forum!

In this hands-on, highly interactive project-based learning class, students will: 

• Research and write a socially conscious biography with their unique voice 
• Learn about book illustration & comics: character development, storyboard/plot, narrative arc, setting, dialog through panels, inking and coloring
• Add illustration, audios, music, and video to the E-book     
• Learn about the publishing process and publish the E-book
• Make a book trailer movie for 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! 

• Our teachers are published authors and university teachers graduated from/teach at Harvard, UC Berkeley and UT Austin.

David Siller is an author, poet and editor. He has taught language and literature classes at the University of Texas, Austin; Austin Community College; Brazosport College, Texas; and L’Université Paris X—Nanterre in France.  He has extensive digital writing, editing and teaching experience for waxyandpoetic.com and New York-based writing group Queens Poetic Alchemy Collective. He has produced and directed five stage plays. His translation and editing work includes those stage plays and a documentary film.

He has a Master's degree in French Literature/Francophone Studies from University of Texas at Austin and B.A. in English (Creative Writing) and French. 

 

 

• Advanced research skills 

• Media literacy and critical thinking  

• Multimedia creative design

• Comics and illustration

• Informational and narrative writing 

• Digital publishing 

• Grit and Growth mindset

• Goals and Intrinsic motivation 

• Audience awareness and empathy 

Min: 6 kids
Max: 8 kids 

(We provide a need-based scholarship/tuition waiver to 1 student/each class. Please submit a request via the contact page.)  

Curriculum designed by Dr. Jiang Pu. Lesson plans for Grade 4-7  developed by Dr. Pu & Oliver Chin; lesson plans for Grades 8-11 developed by Dr. Pu. 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.