Applying Graphic Novel Writing to Creating Graphic Cartoons Across the Curriculum

[Marcy Prager]

The word is out that graphic novels work for struggling readers and ALL readers!  They have taken over my classroom!  It was time to take action and prepare students to write their own graphic cartoons reflecting information they had learned from a variety of sources across the curriculum.  I am currently writing a "textbook" for teachers how writing can be in the center of every "integrated" curriculum area, tapping every child's interest, no matter how diverse the population is:

 

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             Marcy Prager

[Tony O'seland]

Sounds interesting.  As part of my summer class I'm teaching on the Literature of the Graphic Word, my students (all college folks, many going into English Ed.) will be required to script and lay out a 5 page comic from a personal anecdote, short story, or myth.  I'm going to be using some of the materials from the available books on writing comics as the resources.

[Nick Sousanis]

Cool, Marcy, and sounds good, Tony - planning a similar thing in class for English and Art ed students.