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The Comic Creator invites students to compose their own comic strips for a variety of contexts. The organizers focus on the key elements of comic strips by allowing students to choose backgrounds, characters, and props, as well as to compose related dialogue.

The Digital Comic Museum features comics from the 1930's to the 1950's. They can be used to show American culture from that period and many comics from that era are good examples of propaganda from WWII and the Cold War

Larry Ferlazzo's excellent set of resources relating to the use of comics and their creation in the classroom.

Source of the excellent Comic Life software.

A set of lessons and resources relating to the creation and use of comics in the classroom.

This might be a cool way to have students create projects, or summaries of lessons! Creating thejir own comic strip!!

a great tool for students to publish their own simple comic strips... lots of fun and free for Ontario Teachers

Having students create comics can be a great way to get them to work on summarizing info and lessons! Most of these sites require you to make an account (create a username, provide an email) - only Stag'D seems to not require that!

D-Day to Victory is great site that details the events and experiences of soldiers during World War II.

Technology a key tool in writing instruction

These are the cartoons produced by the Dr Seuss dude during World War II (1942-44). It's not exactly Green Eggs & Ham; shows how war can bring out the ugly side of a people. Very interesting though and probably excellent for some class activities or resource design. The images of Japanese are decidely un-PC.