Reading Focus: Graphic Novels - 7 Generations |
Writing Focus: Personal Narrative |
7 GENERATIONS: A PLAINS CREE SAGA ~~ Written by David Alexander Robertson
Edwin is facing an uncertain future. Only by learning about his family’s past—as warriors, survivors of a smallpox epidemic, casualties of a residential school—will he be able to face the present and embrace the future. 7 Generations: A Plains Cree Saga is an epic 4-part graphic novel. Illustrated in vivid colour, the story follows one Aboriginal family over three centuries and seven generations. 7 Generations: A Plains Cree Saga includes the four graphic novels: Stone, Scars, Ends/Begins, and The Pact. |
Over the course of this unit students will focus on an event from their life that they will transform into a Graphic Novel.
Students will be encouraged to write in the first person and to think about how we can tell a story using pictures and dialogue rather than simple narrative prose. |