As a result of all the snow days this year, we had 2 school days over spring break. Knowing that attendance would be low, I sought an activity that would be engaging and relevant to the curriculum without starting new material. I found this great website that I can use during any unit to help students review. It’s a free online comic strip generator. I reserved the lab for the day, gave a quick tutorial and then just let the kids have fun with it. They wrote creative dialogues in French and had a fun time doing it. I did the same lesson for all four different levels that I teach and the beauty was that each class could create interesting work each at their own level. My first-year 6th graders employed the new vocabulary they had learned the previous week about inviting a friend to do an activity over the weekend. I challenged my third-year 8th graders to use the past tense in their dialogues.
I can imagine that this website could be used as a review in any discipline. For example in a science class, the assignment could be to have one character explaining the process of photosynthesis to the other. The students could have fun creatively personalizing their characters while simultaneously reviewing necessary content.
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