Many elementary students have never imagined that they could express their every day thoughts in the form of a comic. 
This lesson introduces them to this idea and shows a few ways it has been interpreted.

Objective:

Students will look at several different kinds of journal/autobiographical comics and then make a one page story about something that happened to them.

Be sure to check out the student examples from this lesson here.

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Objective:

Students will be introduced to the various camera angles and ways to frame images used in photography, film, video and comic books.  They will apply this knowledge to making a 6 panel comic book page that retells a part of a fairy tale.  This comic should use a variety of different ways to frame images and use no writen words to tell the story.

Objective:

In the first class, students will learn about what comics are, how to choose the right moments to tell an effective story and will make a comic.

What Are Comics?

Start the class with this powerpoint presentation. Feel free to play this file (with embedded audio) as is or download the presentation and adapt for your purposes. (Just credit me with the original source files.)

What Are Comics? Power Point by Grant Thomas is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
Based on a work at www.slideshare.net.

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