I love to incorporate other courses into my class. I've experimented with science, math, and English but English is by far the easiest to blend into the art room. When my students came to me asking to do comic strips I knew that it would be a fun way to incorporate their writing skills. The project morphed some as we worked on it, and some students never used words, some still spelled words wrong or use the wrong grammar in certain places but we made it and have some truly brilliant comic strips.
Students were graded on the following things:
Did the student...
- include 4 or more frames
- include a variety of non-linear and linear space through out the comic strip
- outline the comic strip with black marker and color with colored pencil
- use correct spelling and grammar
- create their own original character and story line
- make it neat (CRAFTSMANSHIP)
