Your name and title of the Unit: Michelle Knapp and Storytelling

Title and number of this daily lesson: Comic Day 1

Grade Level(s): 1st Grade

I. Colorado Academic Standards:

● First Grade, Standard 4. Relate and Connect to Transfer
1. Identify how artists and designers make connections through
personal stories between self, family and friends.
EO: b. Identify how stories in visual art and design
teach us about each other.

II. Big Idea(s):

● Stories can be told through art
● Exploration and discovery stories about one another

III. Enduring Understandings:

● Artists can identify connections between artwork and self through stories
created in artwork displaying a story about one another. Allowing students
to get to know more about each other.

IV. Essential Questions:

● How can we communicate through our art?
● What is a story?
● What different kinds of stories are there?
● Can art tell a story?
● Can we learn about someone through art?

V. Daily lesson objectives:

● I can understand the connection of stories to ourselves.

VI. Activity:
● Students will participate and create a comic strip of a personal story of
their choice.

VII. Content Integration:

● CDE Standard for Reading, Writing and Communicating, First Grade,
Standard 3. Writing and Composition:
4. Use appropriate grammar, spelling, capitalization, and punctuation.
VIII. Pre-Assessment:
● Teachers will guide students in a collective discussion where students can
identify what a story is and what kinds of stories are there.

IX. Success Criteria:

● Students will learn how to create a personal story in the form of a comic
strip. Understanding how art is a form of storytelling and allows us to make
a connection with yourself and the arts.

X. Post-Assessment:
● The teacher will have a one on ones with each student and will do an oral
discussion on how you connect to your artwork/ story.

XI. Accommodations:
● Repeat tasks
● Be verbal and speak clearly
● Provide students example of comic
● Modify comic according to specific students’ needs
● Provide written and oral instructions
● Provide multiple material

XII. Visuals:
● The teachers will provide visuals of their own examples of different comics
and a comic made by the teacher.

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https://icon-library.com/icon/effort-icon-2.html

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https://uploads.theartofeducation.edu/2015/09/SHOMposters.pdf

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https://towardsdatascience.com/storytelling-with-data-40708c129f37

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https://www.reddit.com/r/Marvel/comments/2e3c6y/there_was_a_spiderm
an_peanuts_crossover/
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https://www.slashgear.com/some-marvel-comic-books-may-be-paused-unt
il-summer-over-pandemic-05615560/

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https://www.reddit.com/r/calvinandhobbes/comments/6xy022/high_artlow_
art/

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https://www.amazon.com/Peanuts-Comic-Strips-Charles-Schulz/dp/B00CL
DRDP4

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https://www.havefunteaching.com/resource/subject/writing/themed-writing-
paper/speech-bubbles-comic-strip-worksheet/
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https://uploads.theartofeducation.edu/2015/09/SHOMposters.pdf

XIII. Supplies and equipment:

● Computer, comic strip paper, pencil, pen, charcoal, oil pastels, chalk
pastels, markers, colored pencils, crayons, and projector/ smart screen.

XIV. Safety concerns:

● Respect others
● Keeping track of students as they move around- staying organized
● Excessive volume
● Choice of personal story
● Hands to self

XV. Teaching procedure:

● Teachers will begin class with good things, social contract focus, and
objectives. Teachers will then introduce a discussion about what a story is
and what different kinds of stories are there.
Beginning---Introduction or Anticipatory Set

Motivation—Why should your students care about this lesson?

● Teachers will begin class with good things, social contract focus, and
objectives.
● Teachers will then introduce a discussion about what a story is and what
different kinds of stories are there.

Presentation of concepts/introductory activities---How will you engage your

students in finding their own ideas, their own stories to tell with their artwork?
● The teacher will introduce what a comic book and comic strip are and how
they are a form of storytelling. The teacher will invite students to further
investigate what a story is and how they can create and connect a comic
strip to a personal story of theirs.
 Instruction/demonstration
● Ask the questions and discuss “What is a story?” and “What different
kinds of stories are there?
● Discuss what a comic book and comic strip are and provide examples.
● Introduce and discuss the personal story comic strip project and
guidelines.

Middle---Student Creating Phase

● Students will start creating their comic strips and experiment in creating a
story that connects to themselves. Each student must complete a comic
and include dialogue.

End---Closure
● In the last 10 minutes of class students will clean up and put all materials
away and give comic strips to the teacher. Then the students will start to
line up and be ready for the teacher. Discuss while in line what we are
going to be doing next class and define what a comic strip is and share
what they made in class.

Five Minute Breakdown

11:45-11:50: Good Things and Social Contract Focus
11:50-11:55: Discuss objective and stories
11:55-12:00: Discuss what a comic book/ strip is and comic strip project
12:00-12:05: Work time
12:05-12:10: Work time
12:10-12:15: Work time
12:15-12:20: Work time/ Clean Up
12:20-12:25: Clean up
12:25-12:27: Line up