Teachnet Unit One:
Teach Plot with Cell-shaded story shows

In this unit you will engage students in a creative writing and filmmaking activity that starts with learning about plot and puts students in the role of writer, artist, animator and publisher.

The step-by-step tutorial includes screencasts of the programs you need to teach, worksheets to get students started and examples of complete works.

Teachnet Unit Two:
Teach Figurative Language with Adobe Photoshop

In this unit your students will create poster-size collages of figurative language elements.

This unit includes step-by-step video tutorials of Adobe Photoshop and gets right down to the neccessary skills to produce a final collage to print and share.

Teachnet Unit Three: Gotham Gazette Data Report Analysis

In this unit, students will explore new relationships with data using Microsoft Excel and a demographic report from the Gotham Gazette.

Teachnet Unit Four:
Gotham Gazette Political Cartoons

This unit will help students develop critical thinking skills necessary to analyze a news article and create a political cartoon based on the main idea, setting, symbols and people surrounding the issue.

Students will select a daily news article from the Gotham Gazette and use a graphic organizer to map out the important components of the issue. Next, they will choose images from the Creative Commons library that symbolize those components. Using Adobe Photoshop, students will turn those images into cartoonish line drawings. Finally, students will arrange the images and add text captions to create a final political cartoon.