Copy “homework” into planner.
Go over Test #15. (First Period: Finish.)
“Warm Up, 12/14.”
What is this? Be as specific as you can.
How far back in history do you think comics go? (Examples.)
“Icons.”
Read the excerpt from Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud. Answer the following questions in your notebook with your group.
- (3) According to McCloud, what are the three main types of icons?
- (3) Draw an example of each.
- According to McCloud how are words and non-pictorial icons different from pictorial ones?
- Finish the following sentence. According to McCloud, the more abstract or “cartoony” a face is, the more…
“Maus” intro.
What does the word anthropomorphic mean?
Maus by Art Spiegelman. Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1992. It took him 13 years.
“Maus Log I – 12/14/15”
a) Read the first two pages:
- Translate his father’s last sentence into a normal English sentence.
- What does he mean?
b) Why do you think the drawings so simple and not more realistic? (Think about Understanding Comics.) Why do you think he used cats and mice instead of people to tell the story?
c) What is your first impression of Vladek?
Aloud. Chapter One. Drama style with parts.
- Art(ie) – author and artist. (Narrator for the “present.”)
- Artie’s wife, Francoise.
- Artie’s father Vladek. (Narrator for the past.)
- His mother Anja (Anna) — now dead–Vladek’s true love.
- His stepmother Mala — now married to Vladek
- Lucia Greenberg
- Fill ins for minor characters: 1 male, 1 female. (Vladek’s cousin (f), Vladek’s father and mother-in-law.)