Supplies: pen or pencil, journal/paper, Comics Key Features Packet, your chosen graphic novel, a piece of paper.
Daily Objective: to practice writing scripts using comics as an example
Bell-ringer: Reflect upon the ways in which the natural world introduces itself into your everyday life and how it affects your moods and emotions. How does the changing light and weather influence your daily rhythms? Are you uplifted and energized by a sense of renewal, or exasperated by pollen and allergies? What has nature taught you about yourself?
ATTENTION: I will not accept the Crime Story Editing Projects later than Friday.
- Writing your Comic Script: Using the first example in the Key Features packet, write a script that would translate to 3-5 illustrated comic pages. Be descriptive enough of your panels that someone else would be able to draw it. This is due Friday.
- 5th period: Comic check – I will come around and give you a grade for having your comic or graphic novel.
- Homework: find a graphic novel to read in class. You can get one from one of your teachers, the media center, or the public library. Or if you already have one, bring it in. We will be using these later this week.
- Read your chosen comic and write a short analysis (half page to a page) of its characters, plot, and themes.
- Analyze your comic’s key features. Describe each in a sentence like we did with “The Veil.”
- Choose an element of your chosen comic to emulate in the comic you will write. Describe how the element is used in the published comic and how you used it in your own. Write five sentences or more.
- This is due 4/14.
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