Deep Thinking Friday

When you get done with your posttest AND with looking at everyone else's comics projects AND commenting on at least 5 of them from all grade levels, choose one of the following videos to watch.  Leave any thoughts or impressions in the comments.  Be sure to specify which video you watched!

The Great Math Mystery
How We Can Make the World a Better Place by 2030
Everyone Around You Has a Story the World Needs to Hear

After your Comics Project Posting & Posttest...

Watch the following video... these kids are little, but their information about commenting is SPOT ON!



Now it's your turn.  Look at all the comics projects from all the other classes in all the other grades, and leave productive, positive comments.  Follow all the guidelines in the video.

Comics, Cartoons, & Graphic Novels Final Project

Go to the following link: Comics Projects

• Find your pictures and download them to your desktop.
• In "Preview," rotate pictures as needed and save.
• Upload them to a new blog post called "Comics, Cartoons, & Graphic Novels Final Project."
• Give any necessary background information to viewers of your project.

For the second part of your assignment, you will complete your Elaborated Communication Posttest.  Remember what is expected in a proficient example of Elaborated Communication.  Skip a couple of lines and then answer the following question:

Thoroughly explain how your project shows what you learned in the unit on comics, cartoons, and graphic novels.

Sports and Games Around the World

5th grade GOAL Students

Go to the following link: https://docs.google.com/a/fairfieldsfuture.org/document/d/1wFDz0OtPfFUk3yLdlO87devAqSrT2er8xGewsh-3O5c/edit?usp=sharing

The link will take you to a Google Doc.  Check out the sites on that Google Doc and read about sports and games around the world that Americans don't know much about.  By the end of class, choose one that you will research and teach the class.  Once you have a topic, start your own Google Doc with facts about your sport or game.  Don't forget to document your sources so you can make a bibliography as part of the project.

Comics, Cartoons, & Graphic Novels Project

Here are the directions and choices for your project for this unit.  This project will show what you have learned during the GOAL unit on Comics, Cartoons, and Graphic Novels.

• Choose one of the following Options.
• Write with images.
• Fill enough paper with your assignment to equal 2 sheets (front sides only) of 8 1/2" x 11" printer paper.
• Use at least 2 of the following: color, pencil, and/or ink (felt tip will probably be easiest).
• Have fun.  Be creative.  If you can think of an original or more interesting way to complete the assignment, GO FOR IT!

Option 1: The Characters

• Divide your 2 papers into 16 sections each, for a total of 32 panels.
• Write the names/titles/characteristics of each character at the top of the frame.
• Create your characters.
• Use the Lynda Barry examples for inspiration, if needed, but do not copy.

Option 2:  The Questions

• Organize your paper any way you'd like, but use images to answer the questions shown from Lynda Barry's Syllabus.

Option 3:  The Compilation

• Using the graphic novel examples provided in class, find examples of the following Comics Terms, as shown in Jessica Abel's and Matt Madden's book Drawing Words and Writing Pictures.  Include: motion lines, inset panels, tiers, narrative boxes/captions, speech balloons/bubbles, gutters, medium shots, long shots, close-ups, panels/frames, thought balloons/bubbles, emanata, borders, and anything else you notice that you'd like to show.
• Use any combination of your own drawing, copying images, clip art, printed images, and/or photos. 
• Label your images with the title & author of any comic or graphic novel that you used for inspiration.
  

Option 4:  The Comic

• Create your own comic.  Use what you've learned.

Projects Due: Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Works Cited

Abel, Jessica, and Matt Madden. Drawing Words & Writing Pictures: Making Comics : Manga, Graphic Novels, and beyond. New York: First Second, 2008. Print.

Barry, Lynda. Syllabus. Montreal: Drawn & Quarterly, 2014. Print.