The activity I chose to work on this week is missing panels.

I think this activity works great with

scaffolding, specifically bridging. This activity requires a panel from a comic to be removed and
replaced in a logical manner by students. The comic I chose is Pearls Before Swine.
This specific comic strip is a great example of the starting comic of a series using this activity
because it can the panel can be replaced with any number of ideas.

By using the “alone but together” model described in the text, students will be encouraged to talk
with their peers while working on their own panels. I think this can be a very open ended activity
that encourages students to use creative thinking to come up with what’s missing, particularly if
it’s a middle panel. Bridging can be used with this activity by first discussing what the students
see and coming up with some general ideas of what could follow/precede the missing panel. It
can also be helpful to follow the activity with more bridging to discuss how the new panel is
related to the previous ones. Modelling could also be useful with this activity by having the
teacher model their own missing panel for the comic the students will be working on to help start
creative thinking.

For this activity I made a simple “cause and effect” graphic organizer. Students can use this to
help plan ideas for what they think pig is going to say to goat’s question. This organizer can
easily be reframed to “question and answer” in the case of this assignment.