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Comic Strip Project
(PROJECT # 2)
Instructions:
This comic strip report is designed to make you think about your
independent novel in a new way. By creating a comic strip featuring the
characters in the novel, you will think analytically about the characters,
events and themes youve explored in your reading.
You should
choose twelve key scenes,
design a graphic that fits each scene
compose or quote related dialogue.
To make the comic strip, follow these steps:
1. Create a front cover that includes the book title, the authors name and
your name.
2. Use the comic strip templates provided, or create your own.
3. Highlight at least twelve thematically significant scenes from your
independent novel. That is,
each frame should depict a key scene that somehow deals with one of
the novels themes. You
do not, however, need to choose scenes that deal with twelve different
themes. Nor does the
theme need to be explicitly stated in the frame, but you should know
which theme each frame
involves since you will need to describe this during a presentation of your
comic.
4. Choose at least four quotes from the book that youll include in your
narration or captions.
5. Make sure that each frame contains the following:
A thematically significant scene or event that occurs in the novel
A caption or narration that tells the reader something important about
the scene
Relevant graphics (which do not need to be hand-drawn)
At least one character from the novel
6. Make sure that your comic does not reveal the end of the novel. We dont
want to spoil it for future readers!
Relevant Common Core Standards:
RL.10.2: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the
course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot; provide an
objective summary of the text.
W.10.9: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection,
and research.

Guiding questions to building a comic strip:

1. What are the important characteristics of a caption? What do the words
in the captions tell you about the scene depicted?
2. What kind of landscape makes sense for the scene?
3. What props can you associate with the scene?
4. What kind of dialogue bubble makes sense for the interaction?
5. What connects one scene to the next in a comic strip?

EXAMPLE:

Relevant Common Core Standards:

RL.10.2: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the
course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot; provide an
objective summary of the text.
W.10.9: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection,
and research.

Relevant Common Core Standards:

RL.10.2: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the
course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot; provide an
objective summary of the text.
W.10.9: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection,
and research.

COMIC STRIP TEMPLATES

Relevant Common Core Standards:

RL.10.2: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the
course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot; provide an
objective summary of the text.
W.10.9: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection,
and research.

Relevant Common Core Standards:

RL.10.2: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the
course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot; provide an
objective summary of the text.
W.10.9: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection,
and research.

Relevant Common Core Standards:

RL.10.2: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the
course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot; provide an
objective summary of the text.
W.10.9: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection,
and research.

Relevant Common Core Standards:

RL.10.2: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the
course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot; provide an
objective summary of the text.
W.10.9: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection,
and research.

Relevant Common Core Standards:

RL.10.2: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the
course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot; provide an
objective summary of the text.
W.10.9: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection,
and research.