The document discusses how creating visual media can enhance students' understanding of texts by helping them read more deeply and interpret texts differently based on stimuli. It provides examples of projects where students visualized passages from literature by drawing shapes and maps, created character maps and videos to demonstrate themes, and persevered through complex mapping tasks. The goal is to show how visual storytelling benefits textual analysis more than being a frivolous activity.

1. Deep Text Analysis Through Visual Media Creation
Brandon Bailey
Central York School District
York, PA
https://sites.google.com/site/apacvl13/

2. GOALS:
 To show how visual media enhances
text understanding
 To show how this is more then a
frivolous “English type project”
 To help you get your ideas into visual
media

3. - Chuck Schwahn

4. Opening Questions
 Do you agree students can read more
deeply?
 Do you agree students can interpret
differently based on stimulus?
 Do you agree students can create based
on their deep reading and
interpretations?

5. Practice of Visualizing Text
 Draw a line or shape to correspond to
the word.
 Bruiséd
 Visag’d
 Piping
 Mewed
 If

6. This presentation can be boiled down to
three basic ideas
 Design
 Attention
 Perseverance

7. Design
- Frank Nuovo, Designer for Nokia Telephones

8. Richard III Character Maps
From This To This

9. Richard III Character Maps
 Map #1 was used as part of a unit test
 Map #2 utilized an online program to
create a spherical map
 Map #3 occupied a 35’ x 65’ student
work area and was dynamic in nature

10. Richard III Character Maps
 Why the change from paper to online?
 SpicyNodes Map
 Why the change from online to
dynamic?

11. Richard III Character Maps

12. Richard III Character Maps
 Significance of string color
- Red and Black = Bloodline
- Green, Red and Black = Richard’s
supporters
- Yellow = Hubris
- Purple = Royalty

13. Richard III Character Maps

14. Richard III Character Maps
“What’s in greatest demand today isn’t
analysis but synthesis – seeing the big
picture, crossing boundaries, and being
able to combine disparate pieces into an
arresting new whole”
- Dan Pink from A Whole New Mind

15. Attention
 Billy Budd Mapping Project
 Frankenstein Xtranormal Parody
 By show of hands how many in here
consider yourself an artist?

16. Billy Budd Mapping Project
 First novel where they were on their own
 A multifaceted mapping project in
conjunction with research paper
 Interviews conducted with members of
the Stanford Prison Experiment to enrich
the experience

17. - Robert Ornstein, The Right Mind: Making Sense of the Hemispheres

18. Billy Budd Maps
 Feeling maps of their bodies and of the
school grounds
 Planning of maps
 Final products and impact on papers

19. - Dan Pink from A Whole New Mind

21. Papers: Shift in paper topics from largely concrete based to
theoretical based theses.
Concrete: Abstract:
 2010:
 Legality of Billy’s trial
 Contrast between human
justice and moral obligations
 Claggart’s Death: Murder or
Manslaughter
 2011:
 Color and use in the story
 Color and use for character
contrast
 Words used to emphasize
characteristics or individual
characters
 2010:
 General Psych
 Psychology of Claggart
 Psychology of naval life
 Suppression of emotions and
morals due to societal pressure
 2011:
 Hatred stems from lust and
jealousy
 The Raping of Billy Budd:
Symptoms of guilt, hyper-
sexualization, and psychological
deterioration
 Is envy the cause of evil?
 Claggart’shomosexuality and its
effect on Billy

22. In Simple Numbers
Concrete Abstract
 2010- 28 Concrete
based essay topics
 2011- 16 Concrete based
essay topics
 2010- 13 Theoretical
based essay topics
 2011 – 28 Theoretical
based essay topics

23. Attention
- Dan Pink from A Whole New Mind

24. Frankenstein Parody
 Extension of assessment through visual
means
 Used Xtranormal.com to convey tone
and theme in the novel
 Retention of the structure and integrity
of the novel
 Monster, meet William and Justine!

25. Perseverance
 Death of a Salesman Floor Map
 Began with simple breakdown of
characters, complicated by traits and
symbols
 Map was used as a form of assessment

26. Death of a Salesman Floor Map
 Students were assigned characters from
the Lowman family
 Traits and symbols were added through
the process
 String connected characters to others as
well as traits and symbols

27. Death of a Salesman Floor Map
 Required them to stay in the task and
build “stamina”
 Forced them back into the text for
deeper understanding
 Created collegial demeanor within 6
weeks of APE Exam

28. Visualizing Learning
 Let us now recall the words you
visualized before:
 Bruiséd
 Visag’d
 Piping
 Mewed
 If

29. Parting Thoughts
- Alberto Giacometti on the painting of James Lord’s portrait.