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Objectives:
- Watch films and television shows based on popular comic books.
- Identify and analyze social justice themes within comics as well as other forms of media.
- Collaboratively work together to create comics with embedded social justice themes.
Teachers: |
Guest Artist: |
| Pierre and Jose | Ronald Wimberly |
Students: Tylil Morton, Khalil Woods, Fernando Cerezo, Crystal Larrea, Gianni Rodriguez, Kunsang Gurung, Ocean Karim, Isaac Rubiano, Camilo Balbin, Tenzin Choeyange, Jeremiah Dasney, Felix Hoffman, Steve Lama, Amaru Landron
Schedule of Activities:
Monday:
Read article about Social Justice in comic books
Watch and deconstruct themes in Wonder Woman film and X-Men cartoon
Tuesday:
Start creating original comic books with inspired themes derived from different mediums
Watch and deconstruct themes in Captain America: Civil War film
Wednesday:
Continue creating original comic books with inspired themes derived from different mediums
Watch and deconstruct themes in Spider-man cartoon
Presentation with Ronald Wimberly; Q&A with constructive criticism for student’s comics
Thursday
Field Trip to Midtown Comics and Forbidden Planet
Friday
Project Upload
Presentation
Photo-Videos/ Blogs/ Reflections/ Links/ Final Product:
The Final Product:
This is the product of a week’s worth of creativity, learning and collaborating, and inspiration by source material. Behold:
THE SOCIAL JUSTICE LEAGUE
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| Deconstruction of the Wonder Woman film |
