Use this activity to engage all types of learners, while requiring that they refer to and incorporate details from the text over the course of the activity.

“St. Lucy’s Home Graphic Narrative”

After reading the stories in St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, students demonstrate their understanding of plot, characterization, tone, and theme by creating a graphic narrative version of scenes from the collection.

The world that Karen Russell creates in St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves is full of unusual and striking images. For this activity, you will choose scenes from the collection that contain particularly vivid or memorable imagery and use them as the basis of a graphic narrative project.

Your graphic narrative will juxtapose the scenes that you have chosen, using carefully selected lines of text as narrative captions, dialogue, and internal monologue to help your reader interpret your images. Your final project will:

• Present three significant scenes from three different stories
• Use the conventions of graphic narrative to accurately convey

○ Plot

○ Characterization

○ Tone

○ Theme

You can illustrate the entire story by hand if you choose, or you can utilize an online comic creation platform. For a refresher on the conventions of graphic narrative, you might review one or more of these resources: