Fighting the Romans. Task nº2: The Comic: “Boudicca: The brave rebel”

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* They had to download the script of the podcast of the previous activity here. 

* We divided the class in four groups of five members each (the groups for this month). Every group had to print one copy of the script in the school´s printer.

*Each group had to work with a different part of the text (scene):

Group one (Represented by Claudia) – Part one (Until it says: “ANTONINUS Yes, that’s fair.”)

Group two (Represented by Duna) – Part two (Until it says: “ADDEDO We used to be a powerful tribe in Britain, like the Iceni. But Boudicca, you should see us now. We’re slaves to these Romans. They steal, they cheat, they kill.”)

Group three (Represented by Pablo) – Part three (Until it says: “SUETONIUS Neither have I, Antoninus, neither have you! Just go and tell the men that Suetonius orders them to attack. If we get rid of these druids, we’ll have the whole of this island under proper control. Under proper control!”)

Group four (Represented by Carmelo) – Part four (Until it says: “NARRATOR Boudicca was a very strong woman, but she knew she was taking on the powerful Roman Empire. And very few people had ever done that and won.”)

*After reading carefully the text every group had to divide it´s part of the script in different underscenes and draw an illustration of every underscene (with image and words).  They had to take into account that watching and reading every underscene must allow the reader to follow the plot of the story. 

[I gave them a CLUE: Pay attention to the action verbs. They will help you to divide the scene into underscenes]

*They had to scan all the illustrations with the class printer and create a comic joining the illustrations of the different groups together through Microsoft Powerpoint (installed in the class PC)

* Finally they had to published the comic with Slideshare internet free software through an account created with the class´ email, and create a new post with the link in the class´ blog.

[Here you can see a sample of one part of the comic]

Target Grades: 6^th (A and B)

Schedule: Four hour sessions. 27/11/2015. 30/11/2015. 02/12/2015. 04/12/2015.

Assessment items: - participation in the debates to distribute the work and to divide the scenes and underscenes; - general understanding of the story and ability to synthesize it; - quality of the presentation in relation with the plot of the story.