Choosing our Memories – A Comic Book Exploration – Visual and Literary Arts (Comics)

9 – 14+

Part 1: Thursday November 10, 2:30 – 3:45 pm
Part 2: Thursday November 17, 2:30 – 3:45 pm

Note: It is strongly recommended that participants and their families attend the special virtual screening for homeschooling families of selected excerpts from the film What We Choose to Remember on November 2nd at 7 pm.

For more info on the film, visit: https://whatwechoosetoremember.ca/ To sign up for the special screening, click HERE.
Visual and Literary Arts (Comics)

Students will explore their family story and their sense of belonging in Quebec as an English-speaker through comic book creation. In the first session they will watch some short scenes from a documentary where a diverse group of Quebecers share experiences. Participants will also begin to think about their own family’s story and how it might be represented in a comic book. In the second session they will use comic book techniques to connect their family stories to their own sense of identity. Students will create a mini-comic on a regular piece of paper with a regular pencil. The session will be about creating the images that complete the comic.

Materials: paper, mark-maker (pencil, pen, or other)

QEP Competencies

ELA: (ELEM) To represent literacy in different media; To use language to communicate and learn; (HS) Uses language/talk to communicate and to learn; Represents her/his literacy in different media; Writes a variety of genres for personal and social purposes
Visual Arts: (ELEM) To produce individual works and media works; To appreciate works of art, traditional artistic objects, media images, personal productions and those of classmates; (HS) Creates media images; Appreciates works of art and cultural objects from the world’s artistic heritage, personal images and media images
CCC: Uses information, Solves problems, Uses creativity, Uses information and communications technologies, Communicates appropriately

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