As a former classroom teacher of French and Spanish, English Language Arts, and Social Studies, my business now is creating resources for language teachers to tell stories and teach about culture, geography, history, and other content...in a language that may be quite new to the students. So, with that kind of work, you can bet I am always on the lookout for the best tools to visually scaffold the information so it is easier to understand through pictures, icons, and other design elements. I use Storyboard That almost every single day in my work on these materials. Since the resources are for (mostly) children and teens, I prefer a comic or cartoon-y style. Storyboard That is my go-to "character generator." I use it to make and pose characters into scenes and then I combine these groups of characters with Canva, to create PNGs that I then make into presentations for giving mini-lessons in class, texts for kids to read in class, etc. For me, Canva AND Storyboard That together are the perfect solution, and the price is right, for my purposes, as Pixton (which integrates directly with Canva) charges about $500 a year for the rights to replicate your work using their library for commercial purposes, whereas Storyboard That is only $12 or so a month, which includes that permission level for your original compositions. Pixton without that level of permission is about $40 a month, so you would need to think about what the integration of the two would be worth for you in terms of efficiency or the available images and effects in Pixton. For $144 a year, Storyboard That is an excellent option for me. And for free, you can create three active storyboards at a time, so you could potentially use it and never pay a dime.
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If you're feeling overwhelmed, you can also use free comic book making software like storyboardthat.com. Source: almost 2 years ago
Rtyi: sparknotes.com. I owe my literature minor to this website. There's also a good thugnotes on youtube for Moby Dick, if it's still posted. Source: over 1 year ago
I was able to find a "translation" into modern English on No Fear Shakespeare (sparknotes.com) It was helpful. They had a summary, but they didn't have the Timon of Athens play. I am not able to find a 'translation' of Timon of Athens anywhere. Does anyone here know where I can find one? Preferably for free. Source: over 2 years ago
Sparknotes.com has good, free guides to literature. Source: over 2 years ago
Watch the plays, don't read them. When you get stuck or confused, pause the movie and look up the phrase you're confsued about, or the character. sparknotes.com is very good. Source: over 2 years ago
You can look up words you don't understand in a dictionary and sparknotes.com might be helpful for anything else you think you might be missing as you read. Source: over 2 years ago
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