Students draw and write and their own endings on comic book paper

(TESOL Ideas--Interesting Input plus Production Prompts)

Input	Productive Activity
Choose any comic book from this folder.  Read part of the story, but don’t read the ending.	Students draw and write and their own endings on comic book paper. Notes: This can work with any story, but in particular suggest doing Dracula up to the end of part 1, or The Time Machine up to the end of part 1--or part 2, Treasure Island up to the end of part 1, Or A Cool Deal up to slide 95

* Comic Book Paper HERE (Taken from this website)

* Comic Book Folder HERE.  The folder contains:

--The Thrifty Spendthrift by Carl Barks

--Uncle Scrooge: A Cool Deal by Carl Barks

--The Golden Fleecing by Carl Barks

--The Loony Lunar Gold Rush by Carl Barks

--Marvel Classics Comics #15 "TREASURE ISLAND"

--The Time Machine Classics Illustrated 133

--Marvel Classic Comics #9 "Dracula"

--Bone by Jeff Smith

I was looking for a new activity to add to my "Interesting Input plus Production Prompts".  I already had several activities in which students wrote their own endings to stories, but I sensed my students were getting a little tired of writing the stories out, so to switch things up a bit, I decided to give them comics as the input, and to have them write comics as the production.  So far, it has been working well.