Just Looking

Grade 6 students,

You are going to be retelling a famous myth using a comic strip style. We have read some myths and now we are going to do some research on comic strips.

Stage one.

What do we want to know?

1. Advice on drawing cartoons
2. Advice on using captions and speech bubbles
3. How to decide what parts of your story to focus on?
4. Anything else, add your own questions.

Stage 2 Research

You need to find websites and links that you think will help people reading your blog learn more about the questions above. There are different ways to store your links.

Stage 3

Write your blog and make sure you introduce and write about the link so people know what they are going to and what you want them to think about.

For example,

One of the best examples of how to tell stories well and get people to think using comic strips is of course Calvin & Hobbes. The drawings are simple but the characters are easy to recognise and have enough personality for us to care about them. The stories are always, I think, just told through clever use of dialogue and drawings. Here is a link that shows one fan’s appreciation of Calvin & Hobbes, he publishes, explains and analyses some of his favourite examples.

You should create an individual blog entry about comic strips with at least three well introduced links for your class to follow.

Have fun….Mr C

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