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Are You An Artist Like Me?!: Critical Reading and Reader Int
How to Dork Your Diary (2011)
Are You An Artist Like Me?!:
Critical Reading and Reader Interaction within the Worlds of Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Dork Diaries
"At this point, the only thing I can do is use Brianna's doodle book to write very specific instructions to myself about HOW to keep a diary." - How to Dork Your Diary
“Your diary will probably become one of your most valuable possessions. So it's important to determine which type of diary is best suited for your personality.”
- - Dork Your Diary
Rachel Rickard | ChLA 2014 | rickard.24@osu.edu
Mode: “a socially and culturally shaped resource for making meaning”
(Bezemer and Kress 171)
Multimodal: any text relying on two or more of these resources
The Wimpy Kid Do-It-Yourself Book (2008, updated in 2011)
“[t]his is an age of multimedia authoring where competency with written words is still vital, but is no longer all that is needed to participate meaningfully in the many spheres of life. Adolescents need fluency with an array of multimodal and digital literacies for different social purposes: critical inquiry, creativity, and communication”
- Protagonist: Greg Heffley
- 115 million+ copies sold
- 8 books
- 3 movies
- Online interactive game
“First of all, let me get something straight: This is a JOURNAL, not a diary.”
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Book 1)
Mills, Kathy A. “Shrek Meets Vygotsky: Rethinking Adolescents’’ Multimodal Literacy Practices in Schools.” Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy 54.1 (2010): 35-45. Web.
“Whatever you do, just make sure you don’t write down your ‘feelings’ in here. Because one thing’s for sure: This is NOT a diary.”
- The Wimpy Kid Do-It-Yourself Book
- Protagonist: Nikki Maxwell
- 13 million+ copies sold
- 7 books
- 1 music compilation
- Online community
Paratexts: texts that accompany or parallel (yet are distinct from) the primary texts on which they are based
Paratexts “often serve as a way for readers to access schema, critically understand themes, construct knowledge, and engage in multimodal content creation.”
Curwood, Jen Scott. “The Hunger Games: Literature, Literacy, and Online Affinity Spaces.” Language Arts 90.6 (2013). 417-427. Web.
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