Manga comics based on famous artists

My 8th grade Art Honors class researched some American artists and tried to detail their lives in the form of a Manga

Some of the students did a traditional American artist from years ago, others focused on more modern day artists that make music, song or dance. Check out some of their work done on Comic board

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Black Water Middle's Books on the iTunes Store - download them here

How exciting to see the Media Arts students' works now available for free download on the iTunes bookstore. The links directly under the pictures will take you to the iTunes store. The links directly ABOVE the photo will give you more details and the lesson plan we used to make that book.

BWMS 6th Graders Go Wild

 by Black Water Media Arts students

Build your Wild Self Stories : 6th graders collaboratively create Avatars w/ Pages lesson

Black Water Middle School Memoirs Pages 7-1

Digital Storytelling In Pages

Students give writing Feedback via iBook after writing in Pages about their Memoirs

BWMS Toontastic Memoirs

 by Black Water Media Arts students

Toontastic : animated #digitalstorytelling #ipaded about Skyrim

Not to mention the most popular Manga book by the 7th graders

Black Water Middle School Manga

by Black Water Media Arts students

Manga Camera / Comic Book app creations within Pages (samples and lesson plan)

 

 

 

 

Manga Camera / Comic Book app creations within Pages (samples and lesson plan)

After my students played around with the Manga Camera app, they would then edit the photos in Comic Book! You can see some other examples on a previous Manga Camera blog post

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They then arranged all of the edited photos into Pages along with a caption for what was going on. Here are the PDF's and if you scroll down lower you will see the instructions I made up. These are just a few of the most colorful pages I saved in PDF's, every student saved their file as a Pages document to be inserted into an iBook in the near future. 

If you scroll down to the bottom of this post, you can find out how to do this with your class and the rubric to grade it with

Jameson_manga_book.pdf Download this file

Magna_script_Cameron_.pdf Download this file

Magna_Script_Keiana_Haigh.pdf Download this file

Manga_scrip_Tyler_.pdf Download this file

Manga_Script_Brent_7-2.pdf Download this file

Manga_Script_Cody_Hardee.pdf Download this file

Manga_Script_Devin.pdf Download this file

Manga_script_Henry_Poston.pdf Download this file

Manga_script_juventino_.pdf Download this file

Manga_Script_Laly_7–2.pdf Download this file

Manga_script_Megan.pdf Download this file

Manga_script_Richard_.pdf Download this file

Manga_script_skyler_Jacobs_.pdf Download this file

Manga_Script~Hannah_Robbins_7-2.pdf Download this file

Teresa_7-2_.pdf Download this file

Finally, here are the step by step PDF instructions that show you how to do this with your class

Manga_camera_to_pages_instructions.pdf Download this file

And here is the Rubric by which the students will be graded

Manga_Camera_in_Pages_rubric_2.pdf Download this file

Manga Camera apps for fun - how to teach with Manga & Technology

In preparation for the Manga iBook in class, the students just got to take some pics for fun using the free Manga Camera app. Some of these look quite authentic

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I showed my students a little bit about Manga to get them introduced to this lesson. Here is an old Power Point that I used to do with my art classes when I taught them about Symmetry w/ Origami and Proportion w/ Manga Portraits

Over time, I also found some great resources within this Prezi