Textual Analysis in 8th grade ELA

Mrs. Ennis' 8th grade ELA class used social media like Snapchat and Twitter as inspiration to put a twist on textual analysis. Students created Snapchats of the imagery and figurative language found in the story. Then, students "Tweeted" an answer to an analysis question pertaining to the story.

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The final step in the textual analysis came as students used the App, Flipgrid, to create video responses to in-depth questions as a check for understanding of multiple literary standards. \r\n