[LIT] Using Graphic Novels to teach traits

[Heather Poland]

I have graphic novels in my classroom (comics are shorter, and funny;
graphic novels longer and usually serious) but I haven't used them to teach
from. All my reluctant readers love them and they are great because the
vocabulary is quite high and it has the support of the pictures. You do have
to be careful. Most of the ones with the rating Teen are ok (but not
always). I have to look through them first. Some Manga is good too, but you
have to be really careful there as well.

I have Maus and Maus II in my library. I actually had to read these for a
college English class. It is the author telling his father's story of the
holocaust. Starts from before they were rounded up to go to the ghettos. The
second one deals with the concentration camp. All of the people in it are
portrayed as types of animals. It is very good, and very powerful.

On 8/25/06, ljackson <ljackson at gwtc.net> wrote:
>
> My son loved the Bone series.  He is in sixth grade. To me, it is very
> different from a comic book as it tells a much longer story, thought it
> certainly written in comic book style.  Based on your visit, can you
> recommend any other series? So many of them cross the line in terms of
> content or portray women in ways I don't care to promote.
>
> Lori
>
>
> On 8/24/06 11:14 PM, "Francie Kugelman" <kugelmom at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > My daughter and I went to the Marvel Comics exhibition at the Los
> Angeles
> > Science Museum today.  I got inspired to try and teach the elements of a
> > story, onomatapea, character development, etc. through the use of comic
> > strips (now called a Graphic novel).
> >
> > I can also teach art, with the culminating project a short Graphic
> Novel,
> > illustrated in comic book fashion.
> >
> > Has anyone tried something like this?  Any great ideas?
> >
> > Thanks for your help and input.
> >
> > Francie
> > Los Angeles
> > 5th
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