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Comic Book Characters
Explore gender stereotypes by analyzing how male and female characters are depicted in comic books. Using the provided Comic Book Analysis sheet, learners record the attributes of male and female comic book characters. Then the whole...
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Make a Social Skills Superhero Comic Book
Get creative as you teach a instructional activity on positive peer and social interactions. Discuss good social interactions through a scenario, brainstorm a positive response to the scenario, then creat a comic book superhero that...
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Comic Renditions
Students explore the intersection between popular and high art by recreating comic strips in various artistic styles and then famous works of art as comics. Through this exploration, students come to conclusions about what art is and...
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Buzz! Whiz! Bang! Using Comic Books to Teach Onomatopoeia
Learners find onomatopoeic words, develop a vocabulary list from them, and discuss why writers, especially comic writers, use onomatopoeia. Students use an online tool to create their own comic strips using onomatopoeia.
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Comics in the Classroom as an Introduction to Genre Study
Learners explore a variety of comic strips, discuss components of comic strips, and examine conventions of comic strips. They apply what they have learned about comics by creating their own comic.