Visual Literacy Handout

Whatcha Mean,  What’s A Zine? 

The Art OF Making Zines And Mini-Comics

This is made with contributions from more than 20 creators of indie
comics and magazines. 
A zine is a hand-made magazine of mini-comic about anything.
This means that zines can be composed of anything as long as people
are expressing themselves on paper.
The biggest part of making a zine is trading with other zinesters
and giving them to friends/family.

-Strategies to help get yourself and your students to be creative.

What was my rationale for picking this book? 

• I honestly just thought it looked cool
• I think that it is important to implement fun activities into the classroom,
• especially when they also help exercise some parts of English composition. 

Teaching ideas:

• Really awesome for projects
• Can help students learn a new skill like interviewing someone or research
• Teamwork activity 
• “Publish” them

Challenges: 

• Bad attitudes kill this entire project or idea. 
• Not every student will feel a drive to do this. 
• Hard time brainstorming ideas