Comic Writing

For the past week, we have been working on using comic writing to work on writing narrative pieces. We began talking about plot elements (introduction, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution), as the students came up with a personal experience to write about. Then, we used a planning sheet to decide what to put into each panel of a 6-panel comic: the scene and actions that occur, characters present, landscape and props, and captions/dialogue. Once the planning sheets were done, we went into the lab to use the online Comic Creator to transfer what we had written into a comic. The students worked really hard to create their comics, and everyone in the class finished that part of this project yesterday. Today, as a class, we looked at some of the students' work, and talked about the really great things they had included in their comics, and a few ways of how to further improve their comics. The students worked at putting in more description in their captions, or more dialogue, and will be using the comics in the coming weeks to write a narrative story - I'm really looking forward to the finished products!