One of the most interesting teachers I follow through social media is Tim Smyth, a 
social studies teacher who infuses his classroom with comic books. While I haven’t done enough to utilize comics in the classroom, I jumped an opportunity to have my students write their own. Tim also made an excellent suggestion to use Ms. Marvel No. 1 as the introduction. It was a great suggestion that kids related to and segued nicely into identifying their own topics’ conflict and/or compromise.
Important to this step was NHD’s 4 C’s document. This helped us organize our ideas and frame a story around context, conflict/compromise and change. Additionally, we utilized a 1-point rubric (more on that in a later post) and let students take a break from chromebooks and research. It was a nice time to take a “step back” and put everything together. Here are a few examples of the stories we told:
MAKE NO SMALL PLANS 