Redefining the Alaskan Narrative: Nonlinear Storytelling

Explore the different ways to tell a story through close-looking at objects from the Anchorage Museum collection and through creative comic book creation. Grades 6-12

Redefining the Alaskan Narrative is a series of lesson plans connecting to the Anchorage Museum’s previous Lines of Sight: Comic Art and Storytelling in Alaska exhibition that ran from November 2023 to October 2024. This series seeks to explore both storytelling themes from Alaska’s Indigenous cultures and the processes involved in comic books.

Resource Information

Audience/Grade

6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Standards

Arts Culturally Responsive

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Use of this lesson plan supports the following standards

Alaska English Language Arts Standards

Writing Standards 6-12

2a. Introduce a topic; organize ideas, concepts, and information, using strategies such as definition, classification, comparison/contrast, and cause/effect; include formatting (e.g., headings), graphics (e.g., charts, tables), and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension.
2c. c. Use appropriate transitions to clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts.

3.Use narrative writing to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.

Topics

Visual Literacy Alaska Native Cultures

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Print this lesson plan on 8.5 x 11” paper.

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Lunchbreak at Kodiak Cannery, Rie Muñoz, 1979, Anchorage Museum
collection; 1979.041.002

He Carried Neeluk on His Back, Howard Rock, 1939, Anchorage Museum collection; 2003.068.021