Building a Blueprint - 10 L&L

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G10 L&L 2024-2025

BUILDING A BLUEPRINT

You will:

• Examine the role of text and visuals in enhancing the overall structure of a graphic essay.
• Read published examples of graphic essays and consider what makes this type of text effective at communicating a message.
• Reflect on what you observed today and how you might incorporate ideas and strategies into your graphic essay.

In today's lesson:

Discuss with your elbow partner about how the visual elements and verbal elements make this cartoon effective or not. How do images affect the response you have to this cartoon? How do the visual and verbal language work together to inform your understanding of the cartoon?How do specific visual language choices change the way you vIew an argument?

Visual and verbal language review

On the following slide, you will see a graphic essay that is not in its proper order. You should rearrange the panels of the essay to put it in its proper order. Click on each picture to enlarge it so you can read it. With a partner, write on your table or a paper the numbers 1-10. Write one sentence explaining the main idea of each panel. Once you have read them all and determined the main idea, go to the next slide where you can drag them into their proper positions. You might want to have both slides open on two computers to more easily go back and forth.

Previewing a sample

<-----Click on the image!

• This will take you to the original essay so you can check your answers.

Click on the image to the right to see a collection of published graphic essays.Read the instructions on the top of the page:

graphic essay examples

Reflect on the essays you read:

• How did the essays make their topics clear?

• Did you know what the essay's main argument was? How?
• Were the essays structured like a traditional 5-paragraph essay? If not, how were they logically organized?

• How did the visuals and text work together in the essays?
• What strategies did you see that you might you use in your essay?

Final discussion

• Your task by the end of the week is to create a more detailed plan for your graphic essay.

• Use your research and initial plan/sketches from GE Steps 1-3.
• Reflect on the things you've learned in this unit so far: rhetoric, rhetorical devices & appeals, using visuals for communication and arguments, essay structure & organization, student and published graphic essay examples
• Make a full plan that includes all the required elements of the task (refer to the rubric supplement!)

Creating a detailed plan