Talk:Anne Messley's Portfolio Page
Mini-Course: Graphic Novels in the History Classroom -- Anneme (talk) 14:51, 18 October 2021 (EDT)
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Overview and Purpose
Graphic novels are an excellent resource for classrooms. Graphic novels use images to relay messages with and without text accompanying them, adding dimension to the story. Authors can make inferences with imagery, with text, or with both in combination. It is genuinely a multimodal work of literature that facilitates and supports students’ ability to visualize and understand complicated ideas. Components of novels, picture books, and film are all working together to create a new literary form that is higher level than if reading a print-based text by itself. Graphic novels enable one to analyze a work for literary elements such as figurative language, dialogue, character development, plot construction, etc. Graphic novels also allow students to analyze the work using film technique analysis including elements such as the use of color, angles, framing, foregrounding, and backgrounding. The vocabulary in graphic novels is approachable and manageable which can reduce text load and decrease stress related to print-based reading. This creates work that captures a student’s attention, increases student motivation, and promotes a positive association with reading. Students find that they pay more attention to what the author is explicitly stating and where the reader must infer to find details and overarching ideas. The images support reading comprehension.
Students can access sensitive and difficult topics that are difficult to discuss through graphic novels dealing with social and historical situations through graphic novels, which feature complex plots, a variety of literary elements, and character development that present historical events, situations, influential people, and time periods with illustrations and text. Graphic novels can provide students with an opportunity to interact with history in an engaging way that is sometimes more influential than just text or images alone.
The goal of this course is to illustrate how one may use graphic novels in the classroom to enrich a students' understanding of historical time periods, motivate future reading, and develop an understanding of how one may communicate through the use of words and images together.
Needs Assessment
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Performance Objectives
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Course Units
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To place the above picture, first I uploaded it using the Upload file button in left pane. Then in Edit on this page I typed File:thenameofmypicture.jpg in double brackets. For the advanced features I added after jpg the following
|thumb - puts the image in a frame and allows me to add a width for my image
|300px - using any number sets the width of the image
|left - or right sets the alignment and allows text to wrap around the other side
|any text - place after the final pipe will be added as a caption to the image
The video for adding images can be found on youtube here.
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