The lesson goals are to understand the purpose of individual comic books and how to identify the genre, audience, and reading age for comic books. Students will learn key terms like comic strip, comic book, and genre. They will practice identifying the purpose, genre, target audience, and reading age for comic book examples. Their task is to research five current and historical comic books and analyze these elements for each one.

1. Comic Book Research
Lesson 2

2. Lesson Goals
Understand the purpose of individual comic books
Know how to identify the genre, audience and
reading age for comic books
#comicbook #storyline
#comicstrip #script

3. Key Words
Comic Strip A sequence of drawings in boxes
that tell a story in each frame.
Comic Book A collection of comic strips in one
publication
Genre The overall theme of a comic book
that it can be categorised into
Audience The people who the comic book is
aimed towards

4. What genre might a
comic book fit into?
Think about the categories…

5. Understand purpose of comics
Comic Genre Identify genre and audience
#comicbook #audience
#comicstrip #genre

6. Understand purpose of comics
Example Identify genre and audience
What is the purpose of this
comic book?
What genre does the comic
belong to?
Who is the target audience
for this comic book?
What about reading age?
#comicbook #audience
#comicstrip #genre

7. Understand purpose of comics
Example Identify genre and audience
What is the purpose of this
comic book?
What genre does the comic
belong to?
Who is the target audience
for this comic book?
What about reading age?
#comicbook #audience
#comicstrip #genre

8. Understand purpose of comics
Example Identify genre and audience
What is the purpose of this
comic book?
What genre does the comic
belong to?
Who is the target audience
for this comic book?
What about reading age?
#comicbook #audience
#comicstrip #genre

9. Understand purpose of comics
Your Task Identify genre and audience
Research at least five current
and historical types of comic
books commenting on:
Purpose
Genre
Target Audience
Reading Age
#comicbook #audience
#comicstrip #genre