January 8

731 HW: Finish comic strip for HW. See below for details.

702: Bring in pencils/colored pencils, markers, crayons, etc tomorrow. DO NOT FINISH COMIC FOR HW.


COMIC ASSIGNMENT
Use information from reading to create a scenario which will be illustrated in a comic strip.
1) You must have a story (fictional but based in historical facts)
2) You must use ALL the boxes given. Make up at least 3 characters (French, English, colonist, Iroquois, Miami, Pawnee, etc) There must be at least two speech bubbles or thought bubbles in each box.
3) You must illustrate the conflict amongst the Native Americans, French, and the British. Make up a scenario, Use facts from reading! MAKE IT FUNNY, DRAMATIC, TRAGIC, etc)
Hint: Write out a story first before you proceed on comic!
Example:
a) John Kayne is a British colonist living as a farmer Massachusetts. He is growing restless and would like to move west, to the Ohio River Valley, which is territory that both England and France claim. There, he can either start a new farm or get into the fur trade.
b)He gets as far as Lake Erie where he befriends a young Iroquois boy named Little Deer, He tells him that the French have built Fort Le Boeuf on what is supposedly British ground.
c) John is unable to travel peacefully to his destination and gets caught up in the French and Indian War. He ends up fighting for the British after a French soldier accidentally kills his new friend Little Deer.
d) Last box – The Treaty of Paris is signed in 1763 as John begins his new life in Quebec as a fur trapper.