Blog Post #1--What's your familiarity with graphic novels? Why/how might graphic novels be useful for the secondary English language arts classroom?
My only experience with graphic novels is the Twilight one (of which I do not believe they made the second half of, nor the rest of the books) as I own it. I found it frustrating because it did not include the dialogue and I was not a super fan of the anime-style drawing; I was, however, a super fan of Twilight, which is why I bought it. I have been interested in this one with pumpkins on it that I keep seeing at book stores and it has more Disney-style drawings and also is not based off of anything as far as I am aware of, so I've considered buying it or at least renting it from the library.
I also wonder if the illustrated Harry Potter books are in the graphic novel realm. The router is broken at my house so I've been re-reading the books and reading out of the illustrated copies I got for Christmas for the first time. They add more to the books, which is why I am pondering this, as not only do they have pictures related to the words, they also include these beautiful pictures of the animals and the movement is captured really well within them.
I think graphic novels would be useful in the secondary English language arts classroom as it helps with interest--students will be more inclined to peruse the material as they have something to connect it with, especially those that struggle with comprehension of reading. They also seem less overwhelming and intimidating that regular books as there is usually a ton of colors and pictures.
I've also been taking the ESLG classes and we had to create books at the end of last quarter with pictures that went with our sentences for English-learning students to practice with, and I wonder if that might help someone jump into the realm of more novels, with being able to connect images and words they may not know.
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