Students must think critically to create comic strips highlighting six important scenes from a book they have read.
Comic frames are traditionally used to illustrate a story in a short, concise format. In this lesson, students use a six-paneled comic strip frame to create a story map, summarizing a book or story that they've read. Each panel retells a particular detail or explains a literary element (such as setting or character) from the story.
The Comic Creator invites students to compose their own comic strips for a variety of contexts (prewriting, pre- and postreading activities, response to literature, and so on).
Multidimensional, challenging, and popular with students, comics provide an excellent way to introduce the concept of genres.
This lesson uses comic strip frames to define plot and reinforce the structure that underlies a narrative. Students finish by writing their own original narratives.
What's that sound? Students participate in a Directed Listening-Thinking Activity (DLTA) using "The Tell-Tale Heart," make predictions, and respond in the form of an acrostic poem or comic strip.
Students demonstrate their knowledge of cause-and-effect relationships by creating original comic strips and sharing their completed work in an oral presentation format.
This assignment aims to provide learners with different means of representation, for e.g. illustration through producing media to maximize transfer of information. It will be used at the end of the active learning activity in a flipped model (learners can start to practice in class and complete the assignment at home during their own time). Videos/comic strips will be played/displayed around the school to promote awareness. In order to reduce extraneous processing, manage essential processing, and foster generative processing, the assignment gives learners the freedom to choose which media they prefer. In terms of addressing media literacy concerns, learners are advised to first look at copyright issues when using materials from the Internet or posting materials on the Internet (see assignment instructions).