Bone: Out of Boneville by Jeff Smith

Bone: Out of Boneville

By: Jeff Smith

Grades: 4-8

Lexile Level: GN360L

Genre: Fiction, Graphic Novel

Summary: The three Bone cousins, Fone Bone, Phoney Bone, and Smiley Bone are run out of Boneville. They are separated and lost in a uncharted territory. One by one, they travel into a deep, forested area that is filled with terrifying creatures. This is the first book in the saga. It is packed with humor, mystery, and adventure.

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Suggested Learning Activity: Students will create comic strips to portray an event in their lives using the text as an example.

Standards:

AASL: 1.1.1 Follow an inquiry-based process in seeking knowledge in curricular subjects and make the real world connections for using this process in own life.

1.1.7 Make sense of information from diverse sources by identifying misconceptions, main and supporting ideas, conflicting information, and point of view or bias.

Common Core Standards: CCSL.ELA-LITERACY.L.5.2 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.

CCSL.ELA-LITERACY.L.5.5 Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.

Objectives:

1. Students will collaborate with each other to create a comic strip based on the text, Bone by Jeff Smith.
2. Students will portray their own life experiences in visual form by creating a comic.
3. Students will list the literary techniques used in the graphic novel and discuss the pros and cons of graphic novels.

Potential Learning Outcome: Students will work together to create a comic strip and discuss in small groups and whole class the positive and negative uses of graphic novels.