Flash! Super Heroes Teach Students How To Read And Write
Robert Winters and Bobby Banquer
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FOURTH WEEK
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Day Sixteen
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1. Write vocabulary on blackboard
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2. Bring comics to class for week’s book report
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3. Read a play, give students different parts
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4. Have students write an ending to the play (use journals)
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Day Seventeen
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1. Mini orientation to splitting class into three groups (artists, writers, letterers)
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a. different responsibilities
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b. how it parallels to how real comics are written
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c. how each group must communicate with each other
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d. teacher is editor
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2. Class splits into groups by choice (editor can make changes).
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3. Have students practice writing in their journals.
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Day Eighteen
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1. Read comic about writing a comic
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2. Groups begin reading resource materials
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Day Nineteen
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1. Writers begin writing plot
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2. Artists practice drawing calligraphers practice drawing using Drawing the Marvel Way
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3. When writers have some idea of plot, characters and setting the artists and letterers can begin the cover and splash page.
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Day Twenty
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1. Hand in book report (now written in prose)
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2. Vocabulary test
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3. Continue work on comic
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