Transcript Learning History Through Graphic Novels

Learning History
Through
Graphic Novels
What is a Graphic Novel?
• Any book written in a picture-panel format.
Panel from the Pulitzer Prize winning Maus, by Art
Spiegelman.
Why Graphic Novels?
• Outstanding for
visual learners
and reluctant
readers.
• Not for everyone,
but an option for
some.
Panel from Rick Geary’s biography of J. Edgar Hoover.
Classroom use
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Supplemental reading
Book reviews
Class use of excerpts
Have on hand for
students to read during
“down time”
Panel from Zinsmeitser’s Combat Zone: True Tales of GIs in Iraq.
A brief overview of some Graphic Novels:
Panel from Satrapi’s Persepolis.
Collected works
• Compilation of
many individual
cartoons.
• Very useful for
classroom use!
Panel from the Big Book of Thugs.
Women in
Science
“Big” Books
Pass example
from
Big Book of Thugs
Historical Fiction
• Fictional stories set
within a time
period.
• The stories refer to
actual events.
• Captures the “feel
for the times.”
Panel from Shanower’s Age of Bronze.
Low Reading Level: DK Graphic Readers
Historical Fiction set in Ancient Greece, Rome, China and Egypt
Low Reading
Level
and
High Interest
Battle of
Thermopylae
(Spartans Fight
the Persians)
Advanced
Readers
The Trojan
War
Anti-semitism in the US (20’s)
The Great Depression
Includes local
references
(Lakewood as
a resort
community).
Jews Fight Back in the Warsaw Ghetto
Fighting
WWII
Effects of the Atomic Bomb on Japan
Civil Rights
Police Action in Vietnam
Genocide in Rwanda
Non-Fiction
• The following
titles portray
actual events.
Non-fiction: Rick Geary’s
“Treasury of Victorian Murder”
The Beast of Chicago
The
Holocaust
Making
the
Atomic
Bomb
History of the FBI
• Find out why
the FBI and
CIA didn’t
readily share
information!
Iran in the
1970s
September
11th
Investigative Journalism
• Drawn and
written by
journalists.
• Includes firsthand accounts
of war-torn
areas.
Panel from Sacco’s Palestine.
War in Yugoslavia
Conflict
between Israel
and Palestine
War against the Taliban
• Decidedly “leftwing” in tone.
Persian Gulf
War II