Discussion #1
Q: What's your familiarity with graphic novels? Why/how might graphic novels be useful for the secondary English language arts classroom? A: I am familiar with Graphic Novels, but I do not read them. Its not that I do not like graphic novels. I would just rather read text-based readings. I like visualizing the story my way rather than have the story visualized for me. While they are not my thing I do know that they are quite popular among people of my age and even older people as well. Both my brothers enjoy graphic novels as well as some of my friends. In terms of education Graphic Novels can be a practical way of engaging ALL students in some sort of reading. When I was in high school I heard many of my classmates say the phrase "I hate reading". Some of these classmates dreaded the thought of English class just because of the reading. Most likely, they did not actually "hate" reading. However, reading was probably something they found to be tedious. G...