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Comment by Ryan Goble on April 17, 2011 at 3:02pm

Thanks Sean!  Yeah the thing above us should probably be in a big pink box like the "add comment" box here but you know - what can you do!

Comment by Tony O'seland on April 16, 2011 at 5:40pm

Thanks, Sean.  I have problems with the color scheme and miss things.  I know better now.

Comment by Sean on April 16, 2011 at 2:37pm

Right about this comment wall is "+ Start Discussion".  There you can begin your thread for everyone to respond to.

Comment by Tony O'seland on April 15, 2011 at 6:13pm

Sure, Ryan.  I'd be glad to do that.  How?

Comment by Marcy Prager on April 15, 2011 at 4:18pm

Hi Gilbert,

     I teach second graders and they can't type yet, so comic book making on-line is very limited.  I also believe that students this young want to draw their own pictures and write their own bubbles, not choosing someone else's.  I made a PowerPoint of a mini-economy unit about cocoa beans, students read about cocoa beans from an article I printed out, and the students saw a you-tube movie about a cocoa bean plantation.  As they were reading from a variety of sources, students quickly sketched out some steps it takes to cut down and harvest cocoa, bag them and ship them from Ghana to England.  I found a template on-line and students used their "storyboards" to make a page of a graphic novel to explain where cocoa comes from.  This took about a week and it was fabulous!  I hope this helps you.  I've searched on-line for suitable younger-age cartoon making, and they all involve typing or choosing events that are already made.  This kills the creativity!

Comment by Ryan Goble on April 15, 2011 at 4:18pm

Hi Gilbert & Tony - these are great questions. Unfortunately, big questions on the comment wall are not easy for folks to respond to and get buried over time.

Would you consider moving this questino above in the discussion forum? When you post your ? above your "affinity group" peeps can give you feedback. Because forum ?s have URLs it will be in there for the next person with a similar ? AND I can broadcast the question to the whole Ning on crowdsource Tuesday.

Thanks to both of you for getting in the mix - as always - please share more cool ?'s and ideas!

RRG:)

Comment by Matt Madden on April 15, 2011 at 4:15pm

@Tony, it's just a single 9-panel grid, but we have a pdf you can download here: http://dw-wp.com/2010/03/chapter-1-building-blocks/

 

@tony and @Gilbert, if you haven't looked around dw-wp.com (or our book, Drawing Words & Writing Pictures), please check it out, I think you'll find lots of useful material there in the blog, the teaching resources section, and the book guide. Nothing specifically geared towards third graders but you'll find a lot of activities that can be used/adapted

Comment by Gilbert Grimmett on April 15, 2011 at 2:41pm

i am going to be starting an extra writing/art  session with a few of my students and was wondering if anyone had any ideas for a comic book writing curriculum suitable for third graders that could be done over a three week period.

Comment by Tony O'seland on April 14, 2011 at 1:31pm

Hi folks.  I've gone temporarily brain dead (end of semester, 120+ research projects to grade, 4 committee papers to write, 3 textbooks to help assemble for publication) and I seem to have lost any references I have for some place online to download template pages for drawing comics.  Once, many moons ago, I found a .zip file that had about a dozen different types of pages, and when Planetside was still putting out Comic Book Creator they had some downloads, but alas, earwax!  Any suggestions?  These are to hand out to students so they can rough out their comics for the summer course I'm teaching.  Thanks.

Comment by Lea Hansen on March 9, 2011 at 2:52pm

Thanks Marcy for the MLK suggestion! I'm going to buy myself a copy and share it with my students.

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