Objectives:

Students will be able to:

 read the comic strip “A Blink Away from Africa!”.
 answer the comprehension questions written in this document
 think critically and creatively while analyzing the ideas mentioned in the
story to answer the questions.

The audience:
Students aged between 9 and 12 years old.
N.B: It depends on how familiar and good they are in critical thinking.

Procedure:
o The teacher allows the students to read the comic strip..
o The teacher then asks (not critical) questions; for example, Who are the
characters involved? State the setting of the story. What can you see in
Africa?...
Here, the teacher can evaluate students’ understanding through their face-and-
body gestures, their questions that they ask to inform about a certain aspect of the
story, and their answers to the questions that the teacher asks.
- Throughout the first activity, the teacher can explain the elements of a story
and highlight the fact that this is a dialogue and that the verbs are written in
the present tense.

o After the discussion is over, the teacher can ask the students some critical
questions to evoke their critical reading and thinking skills.
Here, the teacher can evaluate the students according the use of critical thinking
(making inferences) and creative thinking (the way they use their imagination to
continue the events of the story).
 Example of some critical questions:
- In your opinion why didn’t Jake od the hw?
- Describe Jake’s character by analyzing how and why he acted in front of the
teacher..
- In your opinion, what happened next?
- If you were asked to describe what you see in Africa, what would you say?

o After that, the teacher can ask the students to continue the comic strip or to
make their own comic strip using the online tool “Pixton”.