Zines and Water:

How Zines Can Help Students Understand Water Issues

Tiffany Hagey

Alexander Hamilton High School, Milwaukee, WI

DOI: https://doi.org/10.24926/cle.v2i2.6348

Keywords: Multimodal text, zine, Advance Placement, youth activism


Abstract

This water stimulus packet was developed to model College Board’s Advanced Placement Seminar Performance Task Two stimulus packet. The intention to offer students opportunities to practice skills and strategies needed to work through a text set and successfully then conduct further water-issue research. In particular, this text set aimed to give junior students a varied base of knowledge about water issues, both locally and globally, while identifying thematic connections and using it to launch their own research. This specific lesson centered around AP Seminar students individually reading a book chapter and organizing their key takeaways and summarized text in the form of a pocket zine.