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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Understanding Comics

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Using the book Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud as the primary resource, this unit focuses on comics as a tool for communication. Students participate in activities which include journal and essay writing, a...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Comics in the Classroom

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson plan explores the use of comics in the classroom as a gateway to genre study. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Comic Makeovers: Examining Race,class,ethnicity,and Genderin Media

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Young scholars explore stereotypes in the media and representations of race, class, ethnicity, and gender by analyzing comics over a two-week period and then re-envisioning them with a "comic character makeover."
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South Carolina Educational Television

Know It All: Sequencing Using Comics

For Teachers 5th Standards
Fifth graders will use comics in order to discover the importance of sequence while writing narratives.
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Read Write Think: Book Report Alternative: Examine Story Elements Using Comic Stri

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Comic frames are traditionally used to illustrate a story in a short, concise format. In this lesson, young scholars use a six-paneled comic strip frame to create a story map, summarizing a book or story that they have read. Each panel...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Comics in the Classroom: Introduction to Narrative Structure

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Contains plans for four lessons that teach students about narrative plot structures by using "The Three Little Pigs" fairy tale or a similar story. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Zines for Kids Multigenre Texts About Media Icons

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Contains plans for nine lessons that ask students to create multigenre zines for popular culture figures that include letter, persuasive, narrative, acrostic poetry, comic, and biography/autobiography writing. To accomplish this,...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: The Comic Book Show and Tell

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan deals with writing and revision in the genre of comics. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.
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British Library

British Library: 20th Century Teaching Resources: Angela Carter's Wise Children

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In these activities, students will focus on a wealth of drafting material and writer's notebooks to reveal how Angela Carter created her final comic novel, "Wise Children". They will closely examine fascinating source documents and...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Compare and Contrast Lesson: Opposing Points of View in History

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
After reading/listening to the picture book I am the Dog I am the Cat by Donald Hall in which two characters have opposing viewpoints, students are asked to look deeply at opposing viewpoints of real people just before the Revolutionary...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Responding to Comparison/contrast: 3 Voice Storyboard: Feeling [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this PDF lesson, students study topics on which people might have differing feelings; they then create three dialogue bubbles that represent three different viewpoints: one that loves the topic, one that dislikes it, and one with a...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Responding to Comparison/conrast: 5 Voice Storyboard: Perspect [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
In this PDF lesson young scholars study a topic on which people tend to have differing opinions; they create five dialogue bubbles that would represent five different viewpoints: one in complete support of the topic, one completely...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Intro to Julius Caesar Using Universal Theme Analysis

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this 4-session lesson, students explore the theme of betrayal from different perspectives in their own lives and in modern scenarios through discussions and activities where they create and talk about comic strip scenarios. They...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Students Write a Newspaper

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this project-based language development instructional activity, English Language Learners learn about the newspaper publication and create their own newspaper that covers stories about their school year. The instructional activity...
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National Geographic

National Geographic: American Genius: Perseverance

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students investigate the importance of failure to the process of innovation by investigating several items that were invented by accident. They share one "failure to success" story by creating a 3-panel comic strip poster, and then write...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Examining Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Media

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Contains plans for five lessons that teach students how to recognize and avoid stereotyping in media. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as assessment and...

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