A Hood Project: “Drawing Adolescence” Assignment
For our section on American Born Chinese we will have a graphic novel workshop (hopefully by a professional cartoonist). In the workshop you will learn not only about the content of the story of American Born Chinese but also about the graphic craft and the choices the author made visually that help us to think about the ideas of adolescence and monstrosity and how notions of race, ethnicity, class, and gender are negotiated through these categories. As part of this workshop, every student will create their own short graphic comic based on some aspect of their own life that explores the ideas of monstrosity and adolescence.
Check Out Some Finished Graphics
Grading Rubrics
Were you present for the graphic workshop?
Do you model at least some small part of your graphic creation on a visual choice made in American Born Chinese?
Does your graphic relay some sort of narrative (beginning, middle, and end) however brief?
Does your graphic explore some aspect of the relation between adolescence and monstrosity?
Is your graphic clean and finished?