TPACK Creating Assignment Template—Brenda Buehner

Subject English

Grade Level Eleven

Content Knowledge

11.4 The student will read, comprehend, and analyze relationships among American
Learning Objective literature, history, and culture.
The objective of the lesson is what students will be able to do
b) Compare and contrast the development of American literature in its historical
as they finish the activity. For this objective, use the Standards
context
of Learning (SOL) to say what you want to focus on.
c) Discuss American literature as it reflects traditional and contemporary themes,
You can find the SOLs at
motifs, universal characters, and genres.
http://www.doe.virginia.gov/testing/ look on the right of the
screen for the subjects and go from there.

Complete this sentence:

In this activity, my students are going to use Toondoo to create a comic strip showing a
Pedagogy Planning

contemporary rendition of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby .

 Activity Describe what the learning activity will be. What
will the students and the teacher be doing? (This includes
what they are doing with the technology). Many people tend
to find this part easier if they number the action in order and
think of this from the view of a substitute teacher. This lesson
was left on the desk, can you follow it and teach the class
today?
Pedagogy
The lesson may begin with the class reading and
discussing Fitzgerald’s novel. After a discussion has
ensued, the teacher will explain that many themes
and motifs found in our classical literature can be
found in contemporary society. The students will be
asked to create a comic.
This comic may cover any portion of The Great
Gatsby. It must be at least three panels long with
pictures and writing that reflect how the scene may
look if it occurred today. How might the scene look
through a 21st Century lens? The strip must express
the theme, motif, or universal character with a
modern twist, and it must be done using the students’
own words.
To begin, the students will each grab a Chromebook
and go to www.toondoo.com to create the “toon.”
The students will create a free account and a
minimum of one character to create a scene from the
novel with a contemporary viewpoint. The students
will be required to save the toon and submit it via
Blackboard or Google Classroom. This activity should
promote the students to not only analyze themes and
motifs found throughout classical literature, but it
should also allow the students to see that many of
these themes are able to be related to contemporary
society and literature. Many of the stories the Greats
wrote are still quite prevalent in today’s society and
this activity is designed to show the students that,
though the book is based in the 1920’s, the story itself
may not be much different than a story like The
Gilded Life of Matilda Duplaine by Alex Brunkhorst
written in 2015/2016.
 Technology
Name of the device and/or programs being used. (The
description of what the students will be doing with the
technology will be included in the pedagogy/activity section).
Directions for Use
Please provide step-by-step instructions for your students to
use the tool to complete their assignment. Depending on the
age of your student, this might begin with 1. Click on Earth
to open the Internet. Etc..
Technology
ToonDoo, www.toondoo.com
1. Log into your Chromebook and go to Google
Chrome.
2. Enter the website www.toondoo.com.
3. Select the “Sign up for FREE” button at the top
right of the web page, then select the free
option.
4. Enter your e-mail, create a password, and
choose an appropriate username.
5. Once signed up and logged in, select “Create
Toon” from the “Toons” tab.
6. Select a layout with at least three (3) boxes.
You will have an option to create more boxes
if needed.
7. Enter “TraitR” at the bottom right of the
application and create your character(s).
Note: Make sure to save each individual
TraitR and name them according to the
characters in the novel.
8. Once your TraitR(s) have been made, enter
“Tools” at the bottom left and create your
comic strip. Be sure to include either a theme,
motif, or universal character as you reimagine
the novel’s scene as a contemporary story. Be
sure to include speech bubbles of some kind
to your toon.
TIPS: Each photo on the top of the application
is a menu for backgrounds, characters,
scenery, and objects. Don’t be afraid to get
creative. The bottom of the application gives
you choices on the size and position of each
prop.
9. Once finished, go to the top left corner of the
application and select “Save As” from the
“ToonDoo Main Menu.”
10. Save your toon as “Lastname_GatsbyProject”
11. Deselect “Let others redoo” and “Allow others
to purchase this toon.”
12. Choose to publish your toon either privately
or publically.
13. Select “Go to Page.” Once you have reached
your toon’s page, copy the link and submit the
link to the assignments tab on
Blackboard/Google Classroom.
 Link to the example product http://www.toondoo.com/cartoon/12933531

Before you submit, delete the explanatory text (the text in small italics).