Comic Book Telephone Game

One of my afterschool activities this session at Highlander is a Comic Book Creations class. The ten or so fifth through eighth graders will end the session with their own comic books created from scratch. So far, the students have been working on developing their main characters- protagonists and antagonists. Today, we'll start sketching outlines for the plots of their stories. We've also been playing warm-up games to get the creative flow going. One of their favorite is a sketch-based version of the old game Telephone. Instead of sharing a secret by whispering it into your neighbor's ear, the students each create a quick sketch which is then passed around to the rest of the class. With each round, the sketches pass to a new person who acts as a human Xerox and makes a new version of the sketch. At the end of the game, everyone has about a dozen versions of their original sketch on the same sheet, and everyone's made a bunch of sketches! Then we're ready to move onto bigger things!

Here's a scan of one of the sketches from an earlier week:

[Can you guess which one is mine?]

- John