Mister Turnbull's Art Class

 Below are comic books set in historical time periods that take place during revolutions or are events leading up to revolutions.   Students could put their comics in the following time periods: * The Agricultural Revolution (1000 AD - 1300 AD) *  The Black Plague *  Peasant Revolt of 1358  *  Peasant Revolt of 1348 *  Peasant Revolt of 1381 *  Protestant Reformation (1517) *  The Events Leading up to the American Revolution (King Phillip's War, the Salem Witch Trials, the French & Indian War) *  The American Revolution (1776) Enjoy reading these Revolutionary Comics!  

 Click on the Link to learn today's lesson!      https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1G7mSF8hxFLd2qtMFORmDNXFfqFbihFcmXvEfAy95E6o/edit?usp=sharing

We have been reading in class the graphic novel "Che" by Spain Rodriguez, a graphic novel adaptation of the life and times and Che Guevara that is roughly 100 pages.  However, we are learning that a story can be told in many different ways, and while a graphic novel adds a visual dimension to the story of Guevara, it does not lend itself to "literary complexity".  This means a movie or a comic just can't go into detail of a person's life like a book can.  Technically speaking it can, but that would mean the books or comic would have to be hours long or hundreds of pages. Fortunately, for the students, I have read Che's Biography by John Lee Anderson, an 800 page book that is considered by pretty much everyone of all political persuasions to be the definitive portrait of his life so that the students don't have to!   I have paraphrased this book and put it in slideshow form to make it accessible to 7th graders.   Here is a link to the slideshow of pt.