Interactive Conductive Ink Poetic Poster Board 

Students will construct a conductive ink poster board that will interact with users when touched. The poster board will have quotes from literary masterpieces selected by the students.

Unit Overview

The Basics
Experiences:  Novice
Age Group:  15 - 16
Group Size:  40 - 45
Hours:   10

Learning Objectives 

• Students will learn that removing text from its original context enhances and/or changes its original meaning.
• Students will learn that literature is a web. An idea rests in the middle, language tethers texts together.
• Students will learn that all acts of interpretation present a power relationship between author and reader.
• Students will learn that reading is an interactive, multidimensional experience.
  
• Guiding Questions: What happens to meaning when language is taken out of its original context? What forms connections between words and texts? What power does a reader have? What power does an author have?​ What power does a word have?

Performance Task

• Students will take 1-3 sentences or lines out of a text.
• ​Students will write those lines onto a piece of poster board.
• Using Electric paint, string, or other conductive surfaces/objects, students will accent and emphasize words that connect with other texts.
• Students will link the conductive surface/object to a line (read by student), sentence (typed by student), scene (shown on Ipad) from another class's text.
• When audience members/participants engage with each emphasized word and art exhibit, the linked material will play.
• Students will create interactive pieces that blend text, sound, and video.

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