Teaching Literary Interpretation via Comic Strip Creation with Comic Life

Comic Life is an easy-to-use application for creating comic-themed media, ranging from brief comic strips to full-length graphic novels. In this lesson, students construct comic strip interpretations of Don Quixote in order to analyze the novel in a contemporary context.

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Teaching Memes and Multimodal Writing with Adobe Spark

Adobe Spark is free and easy-to-use software for creating memes and other content for social media. Instructors designed an assignment in which students created a meme, followed up by a brief written critical analysis. Students used the memes as an interpretive device in the reflection and analysis of Don Quixote.

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