LA Home Learning

  For today's home learning, we are instructed to complete our very comic strip. We have a few resources to create the comic strip such as http://www.pikistrips.com/ps/home and http://www.toondoo.com. I used the second website to complete my own comic strip. But, first I had to think of a storyline. I choose the topic 'Addicted to computer'. Next, I would have to think about the plot and how can the plot bring across the message above. Next, I would have to think about the setting and what kind of background, picture or landscape that best enhances my setting. Then, we have to think about the characters and the actions and dialogues that they were engaged in. I have created two comic strips for my entire story.




 
The links for these two comic strips are http://www.toondoo.com/cartoon/2725462 and http://www.toondoo.com/cartoon/2725288 respectively.

  These two comic strips show that a boy who is addicted to his computer did not do his homework nor study for his tests. When it was the test day, he totally forgot about it. The next day, his teacher warned him to work harder in the next test. When he got back his test, he found that he got zero!

  For the first comic strip, I choose the boy's house for the background for the first two parts. I chose this as I want to tell the readers that how addicted he was to computers. For the third part, I used the classroom as the background so that I can illustrate the teacher giving out the test papers. For the second comic strip, I choose the classroom as the background as I can illustrate how sad is the boy when he received his test paper. For the second part, I did not use any background as I want the readers to focus on the test paper itself.

 The pictures and background contributed to the plot, setting and characterization effectively as it conveys the message better to the readers and it is easier for the readers to understand plot, setting and characterization. I also used many dialogues to let the readers understand the theme addicted to computer is not too good. Besides that, the emotions from the boy and the teacher show how badly he has scored for his test.

  The setting that I have chosen for my comic strips is at home and in the classroom while it is in the present. This allows my message to be understood better as it is happening in the present, now. This shows that many people are addicted to the Internet right in the present and if they do not change their attitude immediately, they could lead to the result that is in the comic strip or even more serious results.