I developed questions from both the teacher and the student point of view and posted them in a "comic" above. (Click on the photo for a larger view.)
I also took to Facebook and got a couple of replies about the use of graphic novels (Thanks Megan!).
(Update for more comments!)
Kelsey, I love your comic strip! What a creative and appropriate way to post your questions about graphic novels. I haven't heard of storyboardthat.com before. Now I want to head over there to play!
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ReplyDeleteYou comic strip was awesome and what an interesting way to show your questions on graphic novels. I think using the comic strip would be a great way to introduce the topic of graphic novels to your students and to show them how to read the novel. I think graphic novels are a great way to increase student's positive reading experience and show them they can be successful, especially if they are a struggling reader. My only experience with graphic novels is at the high school level where we read American Born Chinese and this book hooked my students interest based on the picture and their perceived easiness of the book. The book however, wasn't easy to read and obtained the same concepts that you would expect from reading a novel.
Using a comic strip to introduce a graphic novel would be great!
DeleteI really like how you made the structure of your question blog reflect the content of the articles for this week. It's a really effective way to communicate multiple ideas simultaneously. I also appreciated the kinds of questions you posed because they point out what so often happens with graphic novels--that they're pigeon holed as a specific (and less valuable) kind of text or a text that is only useful to support readers until they can read something real.
ReplyDeleteI love how you visually displayed your questions for this blog. What medium did you use to create this? This is a much better way to display questions on a blog. Visually questions in a list are quite boring, however yours is eye catching. I like how you have the different points of view in the different sections.
ReplyDeleteThis is from www.storyboardthat.com. I've used it before (last year) with my students to illustrate the plot map of a story. They loved it!
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