Name of Project:

Comic Book Strips

Duration:

1 week

Subject/Course:

English(Craft and Structure)

 Teacher(s):

Grace

Grade Level:

9th

Other Subject Areas to Be Included, if any:

Project Idea

Summary of the issue, challenge, investigation, scenario, or problem:

Students are to work together  to create a comic strip telling a story. They must be able to manipulate word choice to be able to show meaning and still be able to have a story plot.

Driving Question

How do you structure a story to have a decent plot with meaningful text?

CCSS to be taught and assessed:

13. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative,

connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on

meaning and tone (e.g., how the language of a court opinion differs from that of a newspaper).

[RI.9-10.4]

14. Analyze in detail how an author’s ideas or claims are developed and refined by particular

sentences, paragraphs, or larger portions of a text (e.g., a section or chapter). [RI.9-10.5]

15. Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how an author uses

rhetoric to advance that point of view or purpose. [RI.9-10.6]

Additional Standards to be taught and assessed:

Must type a paper presenting their findings.

21st Century Competencies to be taught and assessed:

Collaboration

X

Creativity & Innovation 

X

Communication (Oral Presentation)

X

Other:

Critical Thinking

X

Major Products & Performances

Group:

4 students to a group.

Presentation Audience

 Presentation Audience:

    Class

  School

x

Class

School

Community

Individual:

Experts

Web

Other:

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Entry Event to

launch inquiry

and engage students:

Assessments

Formative Assessments

(During Project)

Quizzes/Tests

Practice Presentations

X

Journal/Learning Log

Notes

X

Preliminary Plans/Outlines/Prototypes

X

Checklists

Rough Drafts

X

Concept Maps

Online Tests/Exams

Other:

Summative Assessments

(End of Project)

Written Product(s), with rubric:

____________________________________________________

Other Product(s) or Performance(s), with

rubric: 

X

Oral Presentation, with rubric

Peer Evaluation

X

Multiple Choice/Short Answer Test

Self-Evaluation

X

Essay Test

Other:

Peer Evaluations of Papers

X

Resources Needed

On-site people, facilities:

Equipment:

Computer: Microsoft Word, Alabama Virtual Library

Materials:

Community resources:

Reflection Methods

(Individual, Group, and/or Whole Class)

Journal/Learning Log

Focus Group

Whole-Class Discussion

Fishbowl Discussion

Survey

Other: