Chester Comix
Making history interesting for reluctant readers!

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Chester Comix began in 2003, but the character has been around since Earth Day in 1995! www.chestercomix.com

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Revolutionary CityCreated about 2 weeks ago
Back to BostonCreated about 3 weeks ago

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Chester Comix The teachers guide for the Moving and Grooving comic book about transportation is now on Chester's website: www.chestercomix.com!

Source: www.chestercomix.com
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You can find it by clicking the blue button on the homepage that says “Free Teachers Guides... Read More” or by going to the section that has sample pages for all the books (if it’s available online, the teachers guide for each book is through a link at the bottom of the list of page titles). Please let me know what you think of it. For future guides, I’d love to know what is most helpful to the education you practice and what other features you’d like to add to Chester Comix teachers guides.

The teachers guides for Civil War vol. 1 and Civil War vol. 2 are also here now. I’ve finished handing out the printed versions of those, so now you can get all those activities, literacy lessons and quizzes in the free .pdf file for them posted in the Free Teachers Guides section. As I run through the printed guides, I’ll make that content available here as a free download!

And in a few weeks I’ll have a teachers guide up for this month’s new comic, “Revolutionary City.” Stay tuned!
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Chester Comix just made a bunch of new Flair buttons so you can pick your favorite Chester the Crab comic book and post it on your jeans jacket!

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Chester Comix Here's why comix are great history for kids: DETAILS! Plenty of books tell u J.W. Booth "broke his leg" after shooting Lincoln, but for me or kids to draw that scene we must know WHICH LEG?! So far I can't find the answer in books. I'm working on a Lincoln bio rough draft now and will let you know when I find the answer!

Kathy
Kathy
:) Just call me your detail-fact-checker. :)
Vicki
Vicki
I just googled booth which leg and there were numerous websites that showed which
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Chester Comix just got delivery of the new Colonial Williamsburg-themed comic book, "Revolutionary City"!!!!!

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Chester Comix just landed in Louisville for two days of talks to schools and teachers (In one assignment, I get to wrap up a yearlong study of the Civil War done by a group of master teachers - that will be fun!)

Kelly
Kelly
Aaagh! Leaving tomorrow night for Germany. I would have loved to get together- it's not that far for me to drive. Next time?
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Would love that, too! It's less than 90 minutes drive, I guess? (That's what folks here tell me - I'm the guest of Univ of Louisville) Next time! Or when I can swing a speaking gig at Univ of Cincy!
Kelly
Kelly
Please! Or NKU or Xavier or Miami or Thomas Moore.....
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Chester Comix just got the delivery date for the new book based on Colonial Williamsburg's "Revolutionary City" program: June 1!!

Kerry
Kerry
put Historic Jamestowne down for 60!!!!
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Chester Comix off to talk to 4th and 5th graders in Hampton, VA!

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Chester Comix had a nice book signing at the Marine Corps Museum in Quantico yesterday -- and gave sample comix to a Massachusetts 5th-grade teacher who was standing on the train station platform with us this morning!

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Chester Comix WOW! This is a great look at a talk I gave this week in Norfolk. The kids were great, and I'm honored by their post-talk interviews -- it feels great that my messages got through!

Source: ww2.nps.k12.va.us
Using a mix of non-fiction references and humor, SOL History comic book illustrator Bentley Boyd entertained a riveted audience of 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students at Taylor Elementary.
Anne
Anne
You look great with a crab on your head! Seriously, very cool to be inspiring young artists in schools!
Mary
Mary
Bentley - I posted this on my page as well as I have a number of teacher friends and PTA moms who organize author visits. Thought it might help get you into some more schools. Hope that is okay!
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Thanks Mary! That would be great -- PTAs and schools have gotten me out to New Orleans, Kentucky and San Antonio so far this year -- the upper Plains would be GREAT to visit on a work trip!
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Chester Comix is investigating a Civil War battlefield in North Carolina today!

Mary
Mary
Have fun!!
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Chester Comix will finish tomorrow the second of FIVE artist-in-residency workshops at Richmond elementary schools. Whew - that's a LOT of young authors drawing Barack, Abe Lincoln, Humpty Dumpty, Beyonce . . .

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(each residency is 5 different sessions - it's fun to see the kids progress through at least 3 drafts of their story! They're dying to draw right away but I sit on them to slow them down -- they can't draw even the rough sketch of a story until they write out a script in text that I can edit! But days 4 and 5 are fun -- just a flurry of fun drawing!)
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Chester Comix just finished a five-schools-in-five-days swing of appearances -- shoosh! 250 kids in a dark cafeteria on a Friday morning = PAN-DE-MONIUM!

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http://www.nola.com/timespic/stories/index.ssf?/base/news-1/1236974531195180.xml&coll=1 That's the link to the whole story that ran Sunday from Teddie Shriner, who saw part of my show on the Family Literacy Night in Louisiana...
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Chester Comix got a last round of edits from Colonial Williamsburg for the "Revolutionary CIty" comic and will spend the rainy weekend cleaning up the pages to go to print!!

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Chester Comix had a great time trading ideas with students in Mandeville, LA -- they came up with stuff I've never heard of before!

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Chester Comix is about to go to Louisiana to talk about Author's Purpose with middle schoolers!

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Here's a study that confirms what I've always known for myself and what I'm hearing young teachers say to me when I speak to them about their work. Doodling in the back of class was once a high crime, but many teachers now see how it helps many students concentrate...
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Are you a teacher or librarian? Know a teacher or librarian? Know a teacher or librarian who would like a FREE SIGNED CHESTER COMIC???? I need their help to get Chester into the vast Accelerated Reader program run by Renaissance Learning!...
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Chester Comix Cool! Thanks, Brian -- that's EXACTLY what I'm doing today -- putting sample packets out to all the car museums across the nation! I didn't know about the archway museum, tho, so I'll add that to the list.
At this point in my biz (6th anniversary this month!) I plan books that will have a strong sale across both schools and museum gift shops. "Moving and Grooving" fits that pattern, as does the Lincoln biography I'm hoping to have out by Memorial Day for the summertime visitation that should spike because this is the 200th anniversary of his birth.
Teachers have also been putting in a lot of requests for a World War 1 book -- but I know of only one big WW1 museum in the U.S. Anyone know of museums that cover that war???

February 9 at 6:51am · Report
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Here's the link to a story the San Marcos (TX) Daily Record did on me as an advancer to a book signing I'm doing there today! A few blips -- they misspelled famed cartoonist Al Capp's name and made up a few quotes (JOURNALISTS!!!! RRRGH!) -- but thank goodness they quoted Bill Cosby correctly!! ;-)

January 23 at 4:55am · Report
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