PBL10 Hosts Second Annual Comic Con

Students in PBL10 combined their knowledge of history, English, and chemistry to stage their first major exhibition of the year - the second annual PBL10 Comic Con, which featured student-written comic books, exploration of the hero’s journey, and chemically inspired villains. 

In this project, PBL10 students took a historical figure and transformed them into a hero, whose powers are based on their historical characteristics. They then matched that superhero with a chemically inspired villain, whose powers are able to defeat the hero and are based on an element from the Periodic Table and its properties. The students then took the hero through the Hero's Journey against their villain. To accomplish this, PBL10 students needed to understand the base content, learned how to use AI generators, the creation process, and progress through the writing process of drafting, editing, seeking peer review, revision, and final drafting.

At Comic Con, which was staged in the high school library, guests were encouraged to ask students questions about their inspiration for choosing their historical figure, to describe their character's journey in becoming a heroic figure, what superpowers their hero has and why, and what they learned about the process of creation. Attendees also had the opportunity to read electronic and hard copies of the comic books, view full size posters, meet the characters and creators, and collect autographs.

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