Genre: Newbery Award
Objective: Students will create a comic strip to retell an important part of the book they chose. Comics should include illustrations as well as text.
Basic Materials: white construction paper, thin markers or colored pencils, ruler
Directions:
1. Find a Newbery Medal book that interests you. Have your book approved by your teacher.
2. Choose an important or fun part of the book that you would like to retell in your comic strip. Find a part that will allow you to include action and dialogue. Write a one page summary of this part of the book on the back of the comic strip.
3. Refer to your summary as you sketch your comic strip. Decide what you will include in each panel. Your comic strip should include at least eight panels. If you have difficulty drawing the characters, you may draw stick figures. Make sure to give them some identifiable characteristics so that the reader can tell them apart. Also make sure that the sequence of events is clear and easy to follow.
4. Position a white piece of construction paper horizontally and draw eight boxes of equal size. (You might need to make some larger and some smaller, depending on what you will include in each.) Draw and write in pencil first, then copy over with pen or thin marker or colored pencil. Keep the illustrations and text as neat as possible. Then, color your comic strip.
5. Give your comic strip a title. Be sure to include the book title and the author’s name somewhere in the title panel. Then sign your name as the creator of the comic strip. Your signature can be anywhere throughout the comic strip that you would like.
6. Bring your comic strip and summary to school before the last day of the month. Be prepared to share in front of the class and have your comic strip hung up in the classroom.
