Outcome Chart – New Brunswick – Graphic Novel 120

Strand: History

Big Idea: Evolution

Skill Descriptor:

Explore the origins of visual storytelling.

Achievement Indicators:

  • Determine how the medium of “visual storytelling” has impacted culture
  • Investigate why visual storytelling is effective

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Strand: Creation

Big Idea: Planning

Skill Descriptor:

Demonstrate the importance of pre-planning as an effective way to gather, process, and select information.

Achievement Indicators:

  • Create organizational frameworks to manage content, collect ideas and generate new knowledge, and perspectives
  • Plan for a story by dividing into manageable chunks
  • Draft a cohesive text, making critical choices about what to include or exclude

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Big Idea: Moment

Skill Descriptor:

Determine which moments to include and which to leave out when creating stories.

Achievement Indicators:

  • Consider the purpose, intent, and audience
  • Identify the message to be conveyed to the reader
  • Discuss exemplars of clear, convincing storytelling
  • Understand the different types of moments (e.g., moment, action, subject, scene, aspect, non-sequitur)
  • Explore the use of panels in storytelling within various cultural contexts

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Big Idea: Frame

Skill Descriptor:

Select effective distances and angles to share moments with the audience.

Achievement Indicators:

  • Intentionally choose “camera” angles, distance, height, balance, and centering to create a sense of place, position, and focus
  • Determine when to panel and not to panel (e.g., bleeding)
  • Discern how to use panel layout for impact
  • Explore how perspective can be used as an effective storytelling technique

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Big Idea: Image

Skill Descriptor:

Render the characters, objects, and environments in frames clearly.

Achievement Indicators:

  • Clearly evoke the appearance of characters, objects, environments, and symbols
  • Effectively use artistic devices (e.g., realism, abstract, expressionistic, etc.)
  • Use devices to impact mood and emotion
  • Explore artistic theory used in visual storytelling (e.g., the picture plane)

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Big Idea: Word

Skill Descriptor:

Select words that add valuable information and work well with images around them.

Achievement Indicators:

  • Effectively create balance between picture specific and word specific panels (when to show and when to tell)
  • Communicate ideas, voices, and sounds in combination with images
  • Demonstrate understanding of balloons, sound effects, and word/picture integration

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Big Idea: Flow

Skill Descriptor:

Guide readers through and between panels on a page or screen.

Achievement Indicators:

  • Demonstrate understanding of the arrangement of panels, and the arrangement of elements within
  • Explore how to indicate the passing of time through panel shape and placement
  • Use moment, frame, image, and word in tandem

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Strand: Reading

Big Idea: Text Analysis

Skill Descriptor:

Critically read, construct meaning from, and evaluate a variety of visual stories.

Achievement Indicators:

  • Identify craft moves within independently selected visual stories
  • Examine mentor texts from a variety of genres through all stages of the writing process
  • Understand the connection between reading and writing
  • Evaluate how storytellers make informed choices regarding their stories
  • Analyze visual stories to identify crucial choices authors make to provide clarity and enhance meaning
  • Describe story elements (e.g., plot, theme, characterization) and how they are expressed in visual and written text
  • Explore the role of stereotypes in visual storytelling

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Skill Descriptor:

Explore a variety of diverse perspectives in visual storytelling.

Achievement Indicators:

  • Determine who is represented in a visual story and who is not
  • Consider how the inclusion of different perspectives might confirm, challenge, or extend the message of a visual story
  • Reflect on the impact that diverse representation has in understanding ourselves and our world

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Strand: Community

Big Idea: Exchange

Skill Descriptor:

Persuade and support ideas and opinions with evidence.

Achievement Indicators:

  • Refine arguments by selecting facts, anecdotal evidence, and experiences that consider difference of opinion
  • Communicate persuasively, citing evidence free from generalizations and bias

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