Visual Literacy Content Portfolio

1.  Romeo and Juliet Text to Movie


As my last presentation showed, I still very much remember this movie. this was the weirdest movie I had ever watched in school, and I think that’s why I remember not only the plot of Romeo and Juliet, but even some lines from the play as well. I think it’s so important to have films to show hard to understand plays (especially Shakespeare) and this was the first movie that I actually needed to watch in order to really and truly understand what we read in class, and i know there are a lot of students who feel the same way.

2. Schoolhouse Rock

I still have these songs stuck in my head over a decade later. Not only did they have a ruin cartoon and catchy songs, but you actually learned  something while having fun in the classroom. “Shot Heard Around the World”, “I’m Just a Bill”, and “Conjunction Junction” are still my three favorites from School House Rock, and could still tell you frame by frame the entire video that went along with the song. I know a lot of kids also feel the same about it- bring it up in any colleges level classroom and you’ll have a good amount of the students singing along.

3. Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World

After talking about it for my Graphic Novel presentation, it made me realize just how powerful graphic novels can really be. I never really paid any attention to graphic novels in the past. While I know that superhero graphic novels can teach important lessons, but i didn’t realize that texts such as this was out there (for some weird reason). Brazen is definitely a text that I could bring in to my classroom and do something great with. Not only about female empowerment and feminism, but also to expand to find other people like these women that have affected history that isn’t regaled in textbooks but affected the way mankind functions and/or thinks for years.

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