Comic October 21, 2010

Creative Writing, Mr. Gaylord
September 20, 2010

Comic Strip

Project Description: Students did an excellent job on their fairytales, and most recently their Descriptive Essays. Now we will be moving on to mastering the art of dialogue and writing something that is more than just summary. Combining the skills the students learned through their fairytales and Descriptive Essays, students will write a comic that will both tell a story and describe a comic super hero and super villain. 

Essential Questions:
How can writers use description and dialogue to effectively tell a story that is both cohesive, clear and action pact.

Objectives:
Students will be able to effectively tell a story by both using the art of description and dialogue.
Students will be able to effectively create a comic that has a beginning, middle, end while using good grammar and correct punctuation.

Requirements:
Comics must have
    Super hero
    Villain
    Introduction
    Plot
    Solution
    Ending
Comics must have
    Title
    Ten Scenes
    Two Dialogues per Scene
    Three Thinking bubbles
    One Description Box per Scene
    Pictures for each Scene

Benchmarks:
Brainstorm (September 23, 2010) 5 points
Page Description of Hero (September 30, 2010) 10 points
Page Description of Villain (October 7, 2010) 10 points
Rough Draft (October 14, 2010) 15 points
Final Draft (October 21, 2010) 30 points