This is a lesson plan designed for a Unit on 'Beast' by Donna Jo Napoli for a stage 5 English class

1. ORASMYN REMIX
Stage 5 Unit on Napoli’s ‘Beast’

2. SUMMARY
 Unit
• Prior Learning
• New Learning
• Assessment
 Lesson
• Remix (multimodal)
• Remix (visual)
 Segment
 Discussion

3. PRIOR LEARNING
 Students have read most of the novel „Beast‟ by Donna Jo Napoli
 Students have already been using some form of blogging and have
active accounts
 Students have discussed the themes and the subject matter of the
novel, i.e. they know the metalanguage

4. NEW LEARNING
 Students will learn about the genres of remixing
 Students will explore the multimodal remix text of Fatima al
Qadiri and Tabor Rohak
 Students will open a imagechef account
 Students will upload images to imagechef and manipulate them to
create “stickers”
 Students will create a 1-2 page remix in class

5. ASSESSMENT
 At home, students may edit their remix to make it up 10 pages if
they wish
 In the last lesson of the unit students will add the remix to a blog
about the character Orasmyn which will include at minimum one
separate 60 word summary (no more no less)

6. REMIX
Remixing is the practice of appropriating images and/or
sound from a rich variety of sources to create representation
of a new concept. It is a form of digital collage and is often
multimodal.
http://lunavega.net/2011/09/remix-culture-the-new-web-transformation/

7. VATICAN VIBES
The example we will first explore is „Vatican Vibes‟
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKosaf5tmpI#t=46

8. OUR FIRST REMIX
The type of text we will produce will be something more like this:
http://www.imagechef.com/ic/myitem.jsp?myremix=26511304

9. BECOME AN IMAGECHEF
Go to:
http://www.imagechef.com/ic/sketchpad/
Create and account using your secure school
email

10. CREATE A REMIX
 Open link to earlier example:
http://www.imagechef.com/ic/myitem.jsp?myremix=26511304
 Find and click on the tab „Make Your Own‟
 Decide on a focus:
a) Orasmyn‟s masculinity
b) Orasmyn‟s culture
 Upload relevant images to your chosen theme and create “stickers”
 Import images and stickers into your remix and play around with it

11. INCLUSION
SOME:
Ss will extend their blog
MOST:
Ss will be on topic
Ss will add more slides
(10 max)
ALL:
Ss will make a Remix (1-2 slides)

12. DISCUSSION
 Is there anything you think I could improve in my delivery of this
segment/unit?
 How might you use „remix‟ to engage students and get them
responding to/producing texts?