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Zines Talk!: How Visualization Can Support Student Understanding

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     Zines Talk!: How Visualization Can Support Student Understanding             As a visual culmination for the work I have done with zines as a mode for unlocking adolescent literacy, I have created my very own zine titled Zines Talk . As I reflected on the texts I curated for a potential zine-based unit in my future teaching , I noticed there was a glaring lack of full, print-based zines. In fact, the only zine I had included until in the teaching of this unit was meant to scaffold students’ understanding of another non-zine text. In response to this, I decided to create my own print-based zine about two significant publication topics that created vast communities in the history of zines and the endless potential zines have to create more communities.                When I began to conceptualize this zine, I decided I wanted to focus on real, historical movements that have been made through the use of zines in order to express to students the relevance zines have in building
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Exploring Text Complexity (and Zines!) through Creating a Zine-Based Text Set

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 Introduction     This text set is built around understanding zines and their impact on the communities surrounding them. I curated this text set with my current field students in mind, high school sophomores in American Authors II at Rufus King International High School. These students are currently in the Middle Years Program, which is meant to prepare them to take IB English courses in their junior and senior years at Rufus King. The current students in American Authors II have shown a good amount of interest in reading a young adult novel in our last unit, where we read Poet X  by Elizabeth Acevedo. To keep the students interested in and connected to the unit about zines, I have chosen another young adult novel, Moxie  by Jennifer Mathieu, to be a central text in guiding our unit on zines. This YA novel will hopefully give students more relatable, concrete ideas of how zines impact and create culture; furthermore, this novel was recently adapted into a film in 2021 so students may
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Zines Could be the Key to Demystifying Adolescent Literacy: Here's Why

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  Zine a shortened form of the term "fanzine"   a small circulation publication of original or appropriated texts and images  has roots in the informal, underground publications that focused on social and political activism Introduction to Inquiry Blog Topic     As you may have gathered by the above definition (provided by University of Texas Libraries ), I am considering exploring zines as the topic for my inquiry blog. I have been fortunate to learn a bit about the production and background of zines through a couple of courses I have taken at UWM; however, I am increasingly interested in the role they can play in demystifying adolescent literacy through the versatility the format provides. As mentioned in the third portion of the definition, zines are rooted in underground publication that push for social change and activism. These roots provide an amazing pathway for the cosmopolitanism aspect Christopher Edmin lays out in equity literacy. Zines are commonly positioned in
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Everything You Need to Know About Me!

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 Welcome (back) to my Blog!      Hello! My name is Kimberly Winston and I am in the fourth and final year of my undergraduate degree! I'm majoring in Early Adolescence-Adolescence English Education, which means I will be certified to teach ELA for grades 4-12. I am currently student teaching at Rufus King International High School with sophomores in Mrs. Bishop's American Authors II classes. When I finish my time at UWM, hopefully in May 2023, I hope to apply everything I have learned in teaching ELA in and MPS high school.     I am excited to add to my blog with the posts I will be creating for Currins 545. As you may have noticed on my blog, I initially created this blog for Currins 547 which is another class I had with Candance. As I add to this blog, I definitely want to learn more about refining how my writing is affected by the online format. In creating this blog post, I was inspired to think about how I can adapt my writing to better fit blog conventions and strengthen
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New Class... Who 'Dis?

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 Thanks for staying tuned for Currins 547, but it's out with the old and in with the new! All posts following this one will be done for Currins 545, Reading in the Content Areas. 
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Reflecting on Blogging for Currins 547- Blog Post 8

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  Reflecting on the Journey Thus Far           In reflecting on my experience of blogging throughout this semester, it has been a very rewarding journey of entering the world of blogging. Just a few months ago at the beginning of the semester, the world of blogging seemed lightyears away and I could not imagine myself a part of it. However, when I began setting up my blog in one of the first class sessions, I started to see the possibilities that blog spaces provided for new modes of communication. With each week that passed, I became more comfortable speaking about the content of Currins 547 through my blog and playing with what my voice could be whilst "Blogging the Journey from Student to Teacher."  In this final blog post, I will look back on the posts I've made for Currins 547 and determine the best of the best for different categories of my blog.          1.  Professionalism: Reflecting on Young Writers and My Experiences as a Writing Coach When I think about profes
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Playing with New Media Genres to Reflect on Everywhere Blue- Blog Post 7

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View my Book Trailer Here!        For my multimodal response to Everywhere Blue , I chose to create a book trailer. As I mentioned in my last blog post, I wanted to create something with an audio and visual component because the middle grade book really highlighted those aspects. The music in my book trailer is actually a song that is mentioned in Everywhere Blue , which is titled Adagio for Strings . This song is used to describe the "feeling" of part two of the novel, which is right after Strum disappears. I think the tense feeling in this song adds a lot to the book trailer as a whole in order to create suspense. Working with what is outlined in the book in this way has greatly deepened my respect for how the book sets the scene of the eco narrative. Furthermore, my understanding of the novel deepened when I was selecting images for the book trailer. The image that was most hard for me to find was one that demonstrates the conflicts between Aria and Maddie at the beginning
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