The artist at the museum gave us a step-by-step workshop on cartooning
he showed us in detail, everything from the nose to the knees...
he showed us in detail, everything from the nose to the knees...
here are some of our drawings!!
Our Superheros!
Monday, April 26, 2010
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Text-to-life connections - - - - - -
For the first two decades of their existence in comic books, superheroes largely conformed to the model of lead characters in American popular fiction of the time. The typical superhero is a white, middle- to upper- class, tall, heterosexual, professional, 20-to-30-year-old male. A majority of superheroes still fit this description as of 2010, but beginning in the 1960s many characters have broken the mold.
Check out this article we read in class:
http://www.newsarama.com/comics/Archie-Gay-Character-100422.html
Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art Field Trip!!!
inside the museum!cartooning workshop
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cartoon-covered walls
In order to wrap up this cycle of book club and to celebrate the student's hard work we decided to take a field trip to MoCCA in Midtown. The day started off at school with us exploring the history of comic books in the US and determining what happened in history and how that was reflected in comic books. We then got to select two comic books each that were donated by John Jennison (our favorite comic book artist).
After wrapping up our lesson we walked up to Broadway and Houston to the museum. Upon entering the museum we were blown away with all of the amazing artwork. We got a guided tour of the exhibit and then, lucky for us, we got a personalized cartooning workshop. We all drew at least one character with the help of an actual artist showing us all the different options we could make for the features. It was awesome! All of the pictures turned out great and many of them were hilarious. We promise to post them soon.
Following the museum we headed over to Washington Square Park to get a little taste of the NYU college life. There we read the ending of our novel and discussed the themes that took place in the book. We even took turns making predictions for the sequel that is rumored to be in the making. After that we had a lovely picnic, enjoyed ice cream, and danced to the music the band was making. On our walk home we ducked into Bobst Library to see how huge it was. Overall it was an amazing day and a PERFECT ending to our book club!
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Friday, April 16, 2010
Letters to the Characters! (such sound advice from our boys!)
The characters of Hero wrote our students letters asking for their advice! Here's what some of the boys had to say:
Dear Thom,
I think you should just act like nothing happened. Who cares what other people think. The only person that matters is you. If the people who were your friends before aren't now they are not your true friends. They should like you for you and not your sexual orientation. Didn't you want to tell your dad? Well, now he knows but it came out different than you hoped. There are people who will want to be your friends.
-Jeremy
Dear Miss Scarlett,
I think that you really should work on your attitude problem. Because if you be mean to everybody you might not have any friends. You can just try to be nice to people, but if they get you made just try your best to calm down. If you really like Golden Boy you shouldn't push him away. If he treats you different because of your illness just talk to him about it, don't push him away.
-Ian
Dear Scarlett,
I know your trying hard on being nice to people and not intimidating them with you anger. I have been thinking about it and you should apologize to everyone you were mean to, especially Thom. And try to feel better about yourself!
-Melvin
Dear Golden Boy,
You really need help. You need to stop being jealous, it's wrong man, that you call him a twerp. Take my word for it, if you were in Thom's shoes you'll know what to do with your life. Dude, to be closer to Scarlett just talk to her. Ask what the heck is going on? Why have you been avoiding me? Also, talking about disrespect... before you disrespected Thom. You tripped him on purpose, plus that's a sign of jealousy. You're just mad that Thom was there and you weren't to deal with it.
PS- you need a therapist.
-Keith
Dear Thom,
I think you should just act like nothing happened. Who cares what other people think. The only person that matters is you. If the people who were your friends before aren't now they are not your true friends. They should like you for you and not your sexual orientation. Didn't you want to tell your dad? Well, now he knows but it came out different than you hoped. There are people who will want to be your friends.
-Jeremy
Dear Miss Scarlett,
I think that you really should work on your attitude problem. Because if you be mean to everybody you might not have any friends. You can just try to be nice to people, but if they get you made just try your best to calm down. If you really like Golden Boy you shouldn't push him away. If he treats you different because of your illness just talk to him about it, don't push him away.
-Ian
Dear Scarlett,
I know your trying hard on being nice to people and not intimidating them with you anger. I have been thinking about it and you should apologize to everyone you were mean to, especially Thom. And try to feel better about yourself!
-Melvin
Dear Golden Boy,
You really need help. You need to stop being jealous, it's wrong man, that you call him a twerp. Take my word for it, if you were in Thom's shoes you'll know what to do with your life. Dude, to be closer to Scarlett just talk to her. Ask what the heck is going on? Why have you been avoiding me? Also, talking about disrespect... before you disrespected Thom. You tripped him on purpose, plus that's a sign of jealousy. You're just mad that Thom was there and you weren't to deal with it.
PS- you need a therapist.
-Keith
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