What to Keep? What to Leave Out?
Now distribute the handout Which panels do you need to tell the story? (You may wish to read through it with younger students.)
Have students work in pairs or small groups to choose which panels are needed to tell this (very simple) story and which could be left out. Depending on time and materials available, you may choose to have students cut out the panels and paste the ones they chose onto another piece of paper, or have them cross out the panels they conclude are not necessary.
When students have finished, have them explain their choices.
Ask students: How would it be different if these panels were taken away?
The man working at his computer
The woman asking “What time is it?”
The man opening the refrigerator
Next, project or distribute the handout A Simple Story and compare it to students’ choices. Did they make the same choices about which panels to include and which to leave out?
