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Presentation LayoutGrade 7 Text: Louis Riel by Chester Brown Visual Journaling AssignmentGrade 8 Text: Tyranny by Lesley Fairfield Character Sketch AssignmentGrade 9 Text: Portraits From Life by David Collier Visual Showcase AssignmentGrade 10 Text: Pyongyang by Guy Delisle Outside Looking In AssignmentGrade 11 Text: Shenzhen by Guy Delisle Two-Way Mirror AssignmentGrade 12 Text: Red Power by Brian Wright-McLeod Poetic Totem Assignment

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Visual Journal AssignmentGrade 7Text: Louis Riel by Chester BrownKey Themes: National Identity, Repression, HeroismAssignment Description: students will create visual journal entries using a combination of portrait and scene depictions associated with Louis Riels life and the figures that affected his resistance movement. Louis Riel Journal Response Exemplar

Character Sketch AssignmentGrade: 8Text: Tyranny by Leslie FairfieldThemes: self-image, personal identity, social conformity, body dysmorphiaThe character sketch assignment allows students to visualize a personal conception of a character or characters in a graphic novel. It utilizes a more focused aspect of the graphic novel illustrative piece where students create a personal illustration of a character and complement it with a textual character analysisCharacter Sketch Assignment. As a compare/contrast assignment, students may also compare the character with another in the story. For Tyranny, this works particular well as Annas antagonist Tyranny is literally constructed by herself and her inner fears and self-projected pressure.

Character Sketch AssignmentExemplar for Tyranny by L. Fairfield

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MasteryProficient AcceptableSource (modified): http://mrdscott.blogspot.ca/2011/10/graphic-novel-assignments-and-due-dates.html July 12, 2012Visual Showcase DescriptionGrade: 9Key Themes: national, personal and social identityText: Portraits From Life by David CollierAssignment Connection to Text: Just as Collier observes the quirks and fascinations of influential Canadian persons, so to will the student create visual anecdotal visual observations focused on his or her life.

Visual Showcase (continued)Using the free online program Animoto, students will create engaging visual slideshows using customized image files. These image files will be formatted according to the formatting expectations of graphic novel paneling.

*Other Visual Showcase Programs: Slideshow, Prezi,Kizoa, Photosnack, iMovie, YouTubeVisual Showcase Exemplar

A visual/text combination fairytale story created via YouTube. Copyright Superartization, Jan 2012 & YouTube.Outside Looking In AssignmentGrade: 10Text: Pyongyang by Guy DelisleThis text deals with a westerners real-life observations of the secretive nation of North Korea. Much as Delisle makes observations of the culture as an outsider, so to will students view their own society as if they were on the outside looking in. This allows students to question textual bias, consider their culture from a different world view and engage in a critical analysis of Canada through a graphic novel perspective.* Functions as a strong complement to the Social Studies 10-1 Curriculum

Outside Looking In AssignmentOutside Looking In: Follow-up AnalysisWhy is the outside analysis possibly innaccurate from a Candians perspective? Why might it be somewhat accurate also? How does looking at our society from an outside perspective make us, as a society, question our cultural norms? Written response/analysis can also be in a pictorial/text combination formTwo-way Mirror Assignment (I)Grade: 11Text: Shenzhen by Guy DelisleSubjects: Language Arts; Social StudiesStudents will create a two-way mirror by critiquing the visuals and messages in Shenzhen. A) Students will create annotations for the novel, noting criticisms of both Canada and China politically, socially and culturallyTwo-way Mirror Assignment (II)B) Students will use their annotations to create a trifold-sized two-way mirror that will observe the authors criticisms of Canada (side one) and China (side two). These examples from the text will include the students own illustrations, complemented by textual quotations.

Two-Way Mirror AssignmentCOLOUR CODE: similar critiques in terms of the three main categories of analysis (cultural, social and political) should be colour-coded on each side of the mirrorThis is a major summative assessment project and will require substantial class time to complete. Additional research may be required for students to fully grasp the intertextual allusions and cultural references in Shenzhen.

The Two-Way Mirror AssignmentExemplar:

Poetic Totem ResponseGrade: 12 (ELA 30-1 or 30-2)Text: Red Power by Brian Wright-McLeodThemes: Repression, First Nations Rights, Concept of Ownership, Citizenship, Greed, CorruptionRed Power explores First Nations identity through an effective illustrative medium. Students will create symbolic totems to represent key themes in the novel. Each side of the three dimensional totem will identify a key issue in the graphic novel and on the reverse side a real-world case study of similar nature will be identified.Poetic Totem ResponseEach symbolic representation (total of 3-5) will include the following:

Illustrative symbolic representation with descriptive captions and/or dialogue bubble connected to text case studyInverted symbol on reverse of totem that represents real-world related issueAnalysis of symbolic connections, along with an explanation of the real-world case study connectionPoetic Totem ResponseThe final component of the poetic totem response is the symbolic visual poem created using a combination of figurative language exemplars from the text.

This poem will be on the third dimension of the totem and will read top-to-bottom from a vertical perspective (totem will be constructed as a vertical three-dimensional triangle with 3 faces).Poetic Totem ResponsePoetic Totem Response Exemplar

The gift symbol is ironic because it represents a superficial present that is ironically not anyones to give, ie) the land already belongs to the indigenous peoples A real-world case study would be the Metis rights blockade demonstration in front of Parliament Hill, represented by the road block.

Poetic response that bridges the two issues using figurative languageImage Use NoticeCopyright Free images taken from Microsoft Clip Art, MS Office 2010Cover Art for respective graphic novels courtesy of Google Search Engine all images are intended as curriculum and lesson plan sample advertisements only and are not to be used as part of a textual resale or illegal distribution