Teaching with Dinosaurs 3

Here's the last batch of comics I've got from this year. Enjoy!

The T-Rex speaks for us all!

I never realized it, but T-Rex's posture in Panel 6 unmistakably conveys that feeling.

Maybe my favorite of the bunch, if only for the last panel.

What a ripoff!

Calvin, Hobbes, and Jenn

More comics, these thanks to Bill Waterson. I explained to my students that I used to have the same haircut as Suzie Derkins. Not sure what they thought about that.

It's pretty common for the students to switch the order of lines to right-left since that's the way Japanese comics are formatted.




Yes, but is it serious?

Absolutely poetic, isn't it?

I'm going to start using this one in my daily life, I think. The backs of Japanese buses, it should be noted, are extremely clean and attractive by Western standards.

Teaching with Dinosaurs 2

More comics. Again, the format is taken from Ryan North of the appropriately named Dinosaur Comics.

What in damnation, indeed. Also, when will the government lower the age limit for smashing houses?


Some interesting punctuation after "I'm god" there.

And the canon of Dinosaur Comics is expanded: apparently T-Rex can do that now.



The only human who had ever fathered a Utahraptor has died today.

Teaching with Dinosaurs

This is what I do at work. Comics from Dinosaur Comics courtesy of Ryan North. It's weird, but I think my students really captured the spirit of T-Rex. Sorry if they're hard to read, click to make them bigger (maybe). More comics later.


"Oh my god" is a phrase that all my students know for some reason.

Some of these awesome expressions come out of their dictionaries.

How do you even pronounce that hand-wave emoticon?