This lesson is sure to sizzle, not fizzle, as students use comic strips to find onomatopoetic words, develop a vocabulary list from the words, and discuss why writers use onomatopoeia.
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Create a Superhero is a five-part lesson plan asking students to research a current global issue which impacts them, their family or their community. Based on their research they create a superhero to help solve the issue. The project follows an adapted inquiry model and uses the online tools of G Suite for Education.
A sample culminating writing/art/all-around creative project for world language classrooms!
This video explores how female identity is constructed through art and storytelling in comics and graphic novels.
What makes a superhero super? By comparing popular culture superheroes with heroic characters in children's literature, students learn to think critically about character traits, and consider how cultural perspectives influence the kinds of heroes we choose.
Rationale: This activity will provide an alternative to traditional activities on French families offered in a lot of textbooks, and will get students engage with an authentic material: an excerpt from a contemporary Francophone “bande dessinée”. While some students may already know traditional Francophone comics such as Tintin or Astérix, this activity is here to provide them with a more recent and more diverse example. Aya de Yopougon is centered on a young female character growing up in Yop City, a fictional city very similar to writer Marguerite Abouet’s own native city (Abidjan, Ivory Coast). The “reading” phase of this activity is designed to encourage collaborative reading.
Review of How Comics Work: A 1BUW Production, a booklet created by Candida Rifkind, Brandon Christopher,
and Alice RL in the English department at the University of Winnipeg and accessible at https://winnspace.uwinnipeg.ca/handle/10680/1826.
The lesson plan provides an introduction for instructors on how to incorporate comics and other graphic elements in the World History classroom. A PowerPoint presentation explores the theory of using comics as histories and offers tools and strategies for the critical reading of graphic histories. Two supplemental worksheets suggest specific questions related to comics and a list of modern world history graphic novels.