A Goal: promoting reading engagement and interpretive thinking through multimodal comparison. Strategy: guiding students to compare how mood and character traits appear in both versions.
B Goal: fostering reading engagement and critical thinking through translanguaging. Strategy: asking students to identify how punctuation and verb tenses change from one genre to another across texts.
C Goal: exploring how verbal-visual language reproduces colonial power and social hierarchies. Strategy: providing a lecture contrasting Kipling’s ideology with postcolonial reinterpretations of his work.
D Goal: developing students’ ability to memorize authentic literary expressions. Strategy: assigning lines from the literary text and the manga for memorization and repetition in pairs.