Candide Lesson Plan

Stand-Up Philosophy

Kind of Activity:

Artistic Response

Objective:

Students

Common Core Standards:

N/A

Structure:

For this activity, students will be asked to create a webcomic adapting a scene or idea from Voltaire's Candide, using the popular online comic creator ComicGen.

When creating their webcomic, students should try to imagine that they are doing so for the popular philosophy website "Existential Comics", which, despite being an excellent and hilarious resource for learning about philosophy, has never featured Voltaire in a substantial way.

Additionally, students' comic strips should ideally incorporate or make some reference to Voltaire's comic bent in ...