8-Page Zine About My Decade

Lesson Summary

In this lesson, students will learn about sequential art (telling a story with pictures) by making an 8-page zine. Their zines will be about significant and memorable events that have shaped them during the past 10 years of their life. Students may draw and write their zine in any style that they like. Color it, ink it, or use any method that you see fit.

Lesson Objectives

Learn about visual story telling
Plan, write, and illustrate a story
Understand story pacing

Humans are highly visual, so it is helpful to have goals take a visual form.

Ten Questions To Ask About Your Decade

Your zine will be about significant or memorable experiences that happened to you, both pleasant and unpleasant, during the past 10 years of you life. You may draw and write your zine in any style that you like.

If your year until now was a movie, what would be some significant events that have happened to you?
What worked out well that I’m grateful for?
What was challenging or disappointing?
What were some of my most meaningful moments?
Where did I spend my time and energy?
Where did I fail? What did I learn?
Looking back, how would I rate my happiness on a scale of 1 to 10?
As I look to next year, what will be the highest use of my time and energy?
What is an area I will exercise courage to stretch, learn and grow next year? e.g. public speaking
What would success look like to me next year?

Materials

Thick white paper

Colored Paper

Markers

Pencil Crayons
Paint

After you’ve completed your 8-page zine, make a mini-zine! It can be about your day, week, year, cooking, or any topic that interests you.

Student Work

Your zine can be unfolded and photocopied, and distributed to family and friends. Ink line drawings are frequently used in illustrations for newspapers, magazines, comic books and photocopies for its contrast and print reproduction qualities.

Terminology

Sequential Art - Describes art forms that use images in a specific order for the purpose of graphic storytelling or conveying information. The best-known examples of sequential art are storyboards, comic books, graphic novels and illustrated story books.

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