Short answer: IT’S NON-FICTION. // Real answer: IT’S COMPLICATED!
Tag Archives: history
“QUOTE COMICS” 📖💬 8p. Template
Build a non-fiction mini from a few primary source quotes!
Sitting Bull: Lakota Leader
💬Quotes from a lifetime of fighting for Native land rights…
African Burying Ground Memorial 🪦 (Portsmouth, NH)
Drawn onsite, atop 18th century graves & voices…
Caesar Porter: Revolutionary War Veteran
“In his youth, he was brought to Litchfield (NH) & held as a slave…”
JUDE HALL #2: 4 Sons of Jude Hall
Some of the many risks & challenges facing “free” black families in 19th century New England…
PERSPECTIVE COMICS #1 👁 Brunelleschi Draws (Florence / 1415)
Filippo Brunelleschi re-discovers ancient techniques of linear perspective… (Drawn w/ 5th graders @ a CLiF residency!)
Indian Stream Republic 📖 (PART 1: 1783-1832)
8-page tale of lands, laws, & national identity in the Great Northern Woods…
JUDE HALL #1: Revolutionary War Veteran
“New Hampshire’s best-known black soldier of the American Revolution.” ~ G. Knoblock
“USCT: United States Colored Troops” (1863-1865) 📖 8p MINI
“In a contest with oppression, the Almighty cannot take sides with oppressors.” ~ Frederick Douglass
Lincoln’s 2nd Inaugural Address 📖 4 March, 1865
“All knew that [slavery] was somehow the cause of the war…”
VOL. 4 PREVIEW 🔥 “Return to Port Royal”: Alec Turner’s Story
Memories of enslavement & revenge in Northern Virginia…
