Thursday, December 21, 2017

Bone Tall Tales by Jeff Smith with Tom Sniegoski

Bone Tall Tales
by Jeff Smith with Tom Sniegoski

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Lexile Level GN560L
Grade Level 5-7
Genre Graphic Novel/Folklore

Activity Idea Tie into American Folklore and have the students create their own “Tall tale.”
Using a storyboard maker https://www.storyboardthat.com/storyboard-creator  Students will make their own Tall tales about their life.

Materials
Bone Tall Tales by Jeff Smith with Tom Sniegoski
Graphic Organizer Click Here
Website Click Here to create storyboard


Learning Objectives
Students will be using a graphic novel as inspiration for creating their own folklore story.
Students will write a folklore story that ties into American Folklore by using a graphic organizer.
Students will use their folklore story and create a comic strip to depict a portion of their story with a max of 10 cells and a minimum of 7.
Students will use an online storyboard to create their comic strip.

Learning Goals
Students create a storyboard using an online animation generator.
Students will use the graphic organizer to create the story.

Learning Standards
Explain how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fits together to provide the overall structure of a particular story, drama, or poem.
Describe how a narrator's or speaker's point of view influences how events are described.
AASL 2.1.2
Organize knowledge so that it is useful.
AASL 2.1.4
Use technology and other information tools to analyze and organize information.
AASL 4.1.3
Respond to literature and creative expressions of ideas in various formats and genres.

Note: This is a unit project that would go with other folklore readings. This would be the last reading that would tie into the storyboard assignment of the student creating their own comic strip.


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