New Tool

Identity Tool:
Toon Doo

Identify Strategy in DZS:
Pg 53: “Kids enjoy making cartoons to represent a historical situation or event, a conflict, or a controversy.”
Pg 54: “And they permit students to inject a sense of play or personal ownership into an idea that is otherwise pretty dry in the textbook.”

Identify Content:
Current Events: political or opinion cartoons
OR
Mythology: to tell the story through a comic strip
Gilgamesh
Iliad
Aeneid
Odyssey
Romulus and Remus Myth
King Arthur

How will it be better:
Overcome the “…but I can’t draw Mr. Franzen.”
Allows them to change without having to do draft after draft
Can be a quick or long process
Easy access to text on the internet at the computer station
Easy access to visual images
Does not use class resources: paper, markers, pencils
Allows more permanent medium that does not fade, become torn, or is drawn upon.
Can be worked on outside of school by numerous people.
Allow students to facilitate script writing
Encourage interpretation of the text