[LIT] Using Graphic Novels to teach traits

[ljackson]

Thank you for the recommendation!!
Lori


On 8/25/06 8:49 AM, "Heather Poland" <hpoland at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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