Graphic art Linking to our Writing

Graphic art is an awesome art form and is something that can be done using the tools we have on Google. After our lesson in writing Room 9 has looked at ways we could display our work and one fun area was to look at how to use google drawing in order to make graphic art style posters that we could display our writing on. Today we have all had a go at the process it takes in order to create cool graphic art and there has been some great results. Have a look at our Model below created by Mr Walker, and then below that is some of the other students attempts at this.

Week 8 Term 2 2018

This week Room 9 has been working on how to craft a narrative story, and with their high level of narrative structure knowledge I thought it would be cool to take them through a different approach than just using the story mountain template (which is good but also limits the complexities of a narrative story sometimes). So Room 9 has looked at the stages of a hero based off of Joseph Campbells famous book "The Hero with a thousand faces".

We have used the template below to help plan out an intricate story about a girl named Millie who lives on Uranus in a desert city whose main source of export is sand and water (collected from Cacti). The template we have used is the fundamental structure for almost all movies involving a hero (Think Star Wars, Avengers, Harry Potter etc...) and was great fun for the students to learn how to piece together a hero's adventure. We also added the visual aspect of creating a (rough) map of the trail our hero must take in order to return to her ordinary world. A highly recomended task for adept students who want to go beyond standard graphic organisers and really look at how hero's are created.