Plan a storyboard

Topics Year 4/5
This unit is part of Ancient Greece Aesop

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Objectives

History

Study Ancient Greek life and achievements and their influence on the western world.
Create their own structured accounts, including written narratives and analyses.

English

Note and develop initial ideas, drawing on reading and research where necessary.

Art

Create sketchbooks to record their observations and use them to review and revisit ideas.

Lesson Planning

Make sketches in a sketchbook based on other artists' work; Plan a story using a storyboard using your knowledge of Aesop and his fables.

Teaching Outcomes:

To plan a storyboard of one of the fables.
To plan to rewrite a fable using a storyboard.
To draw a storyboard.

Children will:

Make sketches in a sketchbook based on other artists' work.
Plan a story using a storyboard.
Apply their knowledge of Aesop and the fables to aspects of the story.

Planning

Provided Resources

Examples of drawing styles used to illustrate Aesop's Fables
Storyboard template

You Will Need

Sketchbooks

Weblinks

Illustrations of Aesop's Fables from CE 1479 from journeytothesea.com
The US Library of Congress' versions of Aesop's Fables from read.gov
University of Massachusetts versions of Aesop's Fables from umass.edu
Story about Aesop from aesopus.pbworks.com