2020-10-21T12:14:52-04:002020-10-21T12:14:51-04:002020-10-21T12:14:52-04:00Acrobat PDFMaker 15 for Worduuid:2c8351fc-0f05-423f-82aa-ba961134206fuuid:a9335115-12ac-4a99-9427-4bf19184aeed1xml19.01.02 Using Cartoons and Graphic Novels to Teach Elementary WritingCourtney CleghornEnglishElementaryWritingCartoonsGraphic NovelsSpecial EducationAdobe PDF Library 15.0Elementary, Writing, Cartoons, Graphic Novels, Special EducationD:20201021161338
Curriculum Unit
Using Cartoons and Graphic Novels to Teach Elementary Writing
Courtney Cleghorn
Title Author
KEY LEARNING, ENDURING UNDERSTANDING, ETC.
The enduring understandings include the 3-5th grade Common Core State Standards for writing. Students will write a narrative to develop real or imagined experiences of an event. They will use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, description, and pacing, to develop experiences and events or show the responses of characters to situations. W.5.3.E Provide a conclusion that follow from the narrated experiences or events
ESSENTIAL QUESTION(S) for the UNIT
How can cartoons and graphic novels get students to write more? How do authors make choices about what should be drawn when writing a graphic novel or constructing a cartoon?
CONCEPT A CONCEPT B CONCEPT C
Graphic novels
Developing Characters
Constructing a setting
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS A ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS B ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS C
What is different about using a graphic novel format for writing? How do you describe a setting or characters?
How are Characters developed in a graphic novel or cartoon? How much is drawn and how much is left out?