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Graphic Novels - Blogpost #1


I do not have a lot or really any previous experience with graphic novels unless you count an episode of Boy Meets World and it’s spin off. However, with that being said I believe that graphic novels are useful to the classroom as secondary English educators because they can be used as alternatives for the traditional novel. Using graphic novels in addition to or alternatively to traditional novels I see as beneficial to the classroom because it’s a change of pace – for students and teachers alike. Students (and teachers) are so used to the novels that sometimes seem to last forever and for some students have no interesting aspects because it could be more difficult to them to use imagination to create pictures for the purely word-based novels. Graphic novels give students a chance understand reading by way of vision instead of having to make that connection purely for themselves. Graphic novels can also be useful to students whose first language is not English. Graphics could help these students better understand themes and ideas of stories while also just being super fun.
Graphic novels as an alternative for students who cannot or do not succeed easily with the traditional novel is good argument for how they are useful in the classroom. Potentially being seen as fun instead of strictly educational. As a former high school English student I can imagine that this would have easily brought more attention to the importance of the story versus just useless words many people think of it as.  As there are interpretations of traditional novels in graphic novel form so it does not have to take away from a ready list a teacher has assigned but can introduce a new method of teaching it.

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