Up next...the Cartooning Unit!
In the beginning of the week, sixth grade students will finish up their foil relief projects. Once those are completed, we will move on to our cartooning unit. The students will create their own cartoon character and incorporate it into a comic strip. We will kick off the unit by exploring famous comic strip characters throughout history. We will learn how to create movement, emotions, and gestures in our characters. They will also learn how to include a funny "gag." According to Helen D. Hume, "a cartoonist exaggerates reality and tells the truth with a twist. Yet cartoons are close enough to real-life events that we can relate to the artist's version of the truth. Because of their attention-getting simplicity, cartoons have many applications." I am looking forward to the student "applications" in the Lakeview art room!
