Here is one of several great comics ideal for World History and U.S History. They were developed by the NYCDOE Department of Social Studies & Civics and tweeted by Joe Schmidt, a curriculum specialist in New York who helped develop the resources.
The comics are relatively short, about 25 to 30 pages. All of them are free. A generic lesson plan that we often use with short comics is to have kids choose five panels that best summarize the story and copy them into a slide deck. After that, students write a short paragraph summarizing the story based on the comic.
In addition to the story about Simon Bolivar, there is another excellent comic about Olaudah Equiano, a slave born into the Igbo community in what is now Nigeria. He was captured and sent on a slave ship bound for Barbados. He was eventually sold to a Quaker and over the years was able to purchase his freedom and got involved in the abolition movement and published a narrative of his horrific journey across the Atlantic.
In addition to World History, I also teach US History. The NYCDOE Department of Social Studies & Civics developed a great comic about one of the worst race riots in US History, called the New York City Draft Riots by Nick Bertozzi. It took place in the middle of the Civil War in New York City in 1863 when President Lincoln passed the Enrollment Act, a conscription law that mandated that all citizens between 18 and 40 enroll in the military draft. Protests against the draft turned into a race riot when Irish protesters attacked African Americans because of their competition for low wage jobs and because African Americans were excluded from the draft because they were not citizens.
You can read more about the NYC Draft Riots here at Zinn Education.
Finally, here is a page with all of the NYCDOE Department of Social Studies & Civics comics.
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