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Cow Remix Our World Overview
Cow Remix Our World Overview
In the Remix Our World Project, students become remix artists exploring the Project Essential Question: How is
the world composed for us, and how do we compose our world? Students use a critical literacy perspective to
examine how our understanding of print and multimodal text is influenced by purpose, perspective, and
audience. Students start by setting classroom routines and habits around CAPE principles (i.e., Caring, Advocacy,
Perspective-Taking, and Empathy). They initially engage with the Project Essential Question by rethinking and
remixing popular messages in their everyday lives. Next, they read and analyze a class text (graphic novel
Ms. Marvel) , considering author’s purpose and literary elements. The final product is a creative individual remix
that changes the message of a text. Students share their remixes along with an analysis of the purpose with the
classroom community.
Project Phases
Phase 1, Introducing Remix Our World: Students begin to explore project-based learning and are introduced to
the Project Essential Question, How is our world composed for us, and how do we compose our world? They
collaboratively develop class norms.
Phase 2, Remixing Ms. Marvel: Students analyze the graphic novel, Ms. Marvel: No Normal, considering the
author’s purpose and features of the text that are used to convey important messages. Students are introduced
to literature circles, working together to determine how the protagonist, Kamala Kahn, grapples with how the
world is composed for her and how she can compose her world as she remixes herself into the Ms. Marvel she
wants to be.
Phase 3, Creating Your Remix: Students evaluate the impact of the messages conveyed in Ms. Marvel—and the
importance of those messages in today’s society. They develop their own idea for a remix, focusing on a
message that they connect with. Students create their original remix and analysis and share it with their
classmates.
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● Analyze popular cultural messages from ● W.9–10.6: Use technology, including the
media and their everyday lives. Internet, to produce, publish, and update
● Create messages with attention to imagery, individual or shared writing products, taking
language, color, and audience. advantage of technology's capacity to link to
other information and to display information
flexibly and dynamically.
● W.9–10.9: Analyze how an author draws on
and transforms source material in a specific
work.
● Identify the elements of a graphic novel. ● RL.9–10.5: Analyze how an author's choices
● Describe how graphic novel text features concerning how to structure a text, order
work together to create meaning. events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and
● Annotate several pages of a graphic novel. manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks)
create such effects as mystery, tension, or
surprise.
● Explain how the Ms. Marvel character is a ● RL.9–10.1: Cite strong and thorough textual
remix. evidence to support analysis of what the text
● Compare and contrast previous Ms. Marvel says explicitly as well as inferences drawn
characters to the remixed Ms. Marvel. from the text.
● Identify particular aspects of Ms. Marvel that ● RL.9–10.5: Analyze how an author's choices
have been remixed. concerning how to structure a text, order
● Annotate the graphic novel Ms. Marvel for events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and
text features and overall message. manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks)
create such effects as mystery, tension, or
surprise.
● Analyze Kamala as a complex character. ● RL.9–10.1: Cite strong and thorough textual
● Reflect on text features to explain how the evidence to support analysis of what the text
character of Ms. Marvel was remixed. says explicitly as well as inferences drawn
from the text.
● RL.9–10.3: Analyze how complex characters
(e.g., those with multiple or conflicting
motivations) develop over the course of a
text, interact with other characters, and
advance the plot or develop the theme.
● RL.9–10.4: Determine the meaning of words
and phrases as they are used in the text,
including figurative and connotative
meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of
specific word choices on meaning and tone
(e.g., how the language evokes a sense of
time and place; how it sets a formal or
informal tone).
● RL.9–10.2: Determine a theme or central idea
of a text and analyze in detail its
development over the course of the text,
including how it emerges and is shaped and
refined by specific details; provide an
objective summary of the text.
● Analyze Kamala as a complex character. ● RL.9–10.1: Cite strong and thorough textual
● Reflect on text features to explain how the evidence to support analysis of what the text
character of Ms. Marvel was remixed.
● Analyze Kamala as a complex character. ● RL.9–10.1: Cite strong and thorough textual
● Reflect on text features to explain how the evidence to support analysis of what the text
character of Ms. Marvel was remixed. says explicitly as well as inferences drawn
● Summarize the final section of Ms. Marvel. from the text.
● identify a key message and use text and ● RL.9–10.3: Analyze how complex characters
literary features to analyze the message and (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting
how it connects to their own life. motivations) develop over the course of a
text, interact with other characters, and
advance the plot or develop the theme.
● RL.9–10.4: Determine the meaning of words
and phrases as they are used in the text,
including figurative and connotative
meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of
specific word choices on meaning and tone
(e.g., how the language evokes a sense of
time and place; how it sets a formal or
informal tone).
● RL.9–10.2: Determine a theme or central idea
of a text and analyze in detail its
development over the course of the text,
including how it emerges and is shaped and
● Compare and contrast an original text and a ● RL.9–10.9: Analyze how an author draws on
remix. and transforms source material in a specific
● Generate criteria for what makes a remix work.
effective. ● RL.9–10.4: Determine the meaning of words
and phrases as they are used in the text,
including figurative and connotative
meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of
specific word choices on meaning and tone
(e.g., how the language evokes a sense of
time and place; how it sets a formal or
informal tone).
● RL.9–10.5: Analyze how an author's choices
concerning how to structure a text, order
events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and
manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks)
create such effects as mystery, tension, or
surprise.
● Remix a song to change the message. ● RL.9–10.1: Cite strong and thorough textual
● Describe the process of remixing a text. evidence to support analysis of what the text
says explicitly as well as inferences drawn
from the text.
● RL.9–10.2: Determine a theme or central idea
of a text and analyze in detail its
development over the course of the text,
including how it emerges and is shaped and
refined by specific details; provide an
objective summary of the text.
● Present a pitch of their remix ideas to the ● RL.9–10.4: Determine the meaning of words
class. and phrases as they are used in the text,
● Describe how they will apply feedback to including figurative and connotative
their design. meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of
● Begin designing their remix product. specific word choices on meaning and tone
(e.g., how the language evokes a sense of
time and place; how it sets a formal or
informal tone).
● RL.9–10.5: Analyze how an author's choices
concerning how to structure a text, order
events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and
manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks)
create such effects as mystery, tension, or
surprise.
● W.9–10.1e: Provide a concluding statement
or section that follows from and supports the
argument presented.
● W.9–10.5: Develop and strengthen writing as
needed by planning, revising, editing,
rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing
on addressing what is most significant for a
specific purpose and audience.
Optional Materials
● Poster paper
● Ms. Marvel Annotation Guide (ROW_2.3_Ms.
Marvel Annotation Guide_Teacher)
● Ms. Marvel audio version