{"id":1124,"date":"2008-09-15T10:26:12","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T14:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1124"},"modified":"2008-09-15T10:26:12","modified_gmt":"2008-09-15T14:26:12","slug":"drawing-words-writing-pictures-wk3-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1124","title":{"rendered":"Drawing Words & Writing Pictures – WK3 Exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"

The in-class exercise for week three is the “wrong planet” assignment here<\/a>.\u00a0 We’re doing the assignment collaboratively, with each student tackling one section of the story.\u00a0 My section is #2, “lands on the moon…”<\/p>\n

This assignment has been around since well before this book came out, and has been posted over at teachingcomics.org<\/a> for a while.\u00a0 It’s from that site that I got the assignment when I tried it out in a classroom environment the last time I taught a comics class and, while the assignment looks fairly straight ahead, it’s actually pretty tricky.\u00a0 Part of the challenge is that it’s not worded very clearly: specifically, it’s not made clear whether the moon<\/em> was the wrong destination… or whether he’s returned to the wrong “home planet” after visiting the moon.<\/p>\n

I assumed the latter when I did this exercise in class, but that creates a storytelling problem in figuring out how the astronaut couldn’t realize that he’s on the wrong planet until he’s actually on the ground.\u00a0 I’ve been tempted to think that maybe what’s really intended is the former interpretation–that he was meant to go somewhere other than the moon–but the assignment very specifically mentions a wrong planet<\/strong>… and given that the only planet in the whole scenario is the home planet, I guess that’s the “wrong” planet in question.\u00a0 Very confusing….<\/p>\n

Anyway, fortunately for me, since I’m dealing with part two of the story, I don’t really have to tackle that confusion head-on.\u00a0 Here’s what I’ve got:<\/p>\n

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The in-class exercise for week three is the “wrong planet” assignment here.\u00a0 We’re doing the assignment collaboratively, with each student tackling one section of the story.\u00a0 My section is #2, “lands on the moon…” This assignment has been around since well before this book came out, and has been posted over at teachingcomics.org for a … <\/p>\n

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