Lessons first define comics while looking examples of illustrated writing in various media and languages. After reading a Little Sammy Sneeze strip from 1905 students review panels, captions and speech bubbles. They play a group activity requiring pencil drawing and organizing stories about three caricatures. Below are instructions along with four panels by elementary to high schoolers.
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Students might practice drawing volume through shading while observing personal objects at home, an assembled still life in the classroom, or their reflections in mirrors. They examine more illustrated and literary devices from Masters of American Comics before storyboarding then final drafting their own. Elementary students sometimes select storylines from monthly writing prompt lists.
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| 3rd grader |
