My other 6th grade students, from ST2, wanted to create comics as well, around the time when we were talking Shakespeare. So they found information about several of the Bard’s plays, we discussed each one and then they voted on which one they would like to work on. I told them they only had to work on a scene, not the entire play, of course, so here’s what they came up with:

Nagia, Yiannis, Christos and Thanasis worked on King Lear. I was impressed by the way they worked, Thanasis did the drawing, the rest had created the text, Chris did the coloring and Nagia and Yiannis were coordinators. Well done!

Then, three girls, Yiota, Joanna and Athanasia, were absolutely focused on doing something from Romeo and Juliet. They each worked on a particular scene and finished it separately. They had a hard time agreeing on the text, though, in the beginning. Oh, and of course, they had fun by changing the story a lot!

And this is what the third team did, Zachary, Iliana and Gabriel, assisted by Thanasis and Yiannis, who were kind to help them towards the end, as they were running out of time:

I like how one thing a class does inspires another class to do something else, I love how my idea for comics was something that touched everybody. Also, the ICT teacher today told me he was inspired to do a comic on The Merchant of Venice with the students of the 5th and 6th grades, based on the English text that I wrote, a school play for the E class -which I will ask my students to adapt to Greek, before they make their comic version on Toondoo. Perhaps we will be able to present it alongside the performance! Cool. I promise you to write more on the play in a seperate article, coming soon! For now I’m still thinking about the casting of the roles, lol! Hope you enjoyed this post!