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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.

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Learning History Through Graphic Novels

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  1. Learning History ThroughGraphic Novels

  2. What is a Graphic Novel? • Any book written in a picture-panel format. Panel from the Pulitzer Prize winning Maus, by Art Spiegelman.

  3. 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.

  4. Classroom use • 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.

  5. A brief overview of some Graphic Novels: Panel from Satrapi’s Persepolis.

  6. Collected works • Compilation of many individual cartoons. • Very useful for classroom use! Panel from the Big Book of Thugs.

  7. Women in Science

  8. “Big” Books

  9. Pass example from Big Book of Thugs

  10. 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.

  11. Low Reading Level: DK Graphic Readers Historical Fiction set in Ancient Greece, Rome, China and Egypt

  12. Low Reading LevelandHigh InterestBattle of Thermopylae(Spartans Fight the Persians)

  13. Advanced ReadersThe Trojan War

  14. Anti-semitism in the US (20’s)

  15. The Great Depression

  16. Includes local references (Lakewood as a resort community).

  17. Jews Fight Back in the Warsaw Ghetto

  18. Fighting WWII

  19. Effects of the Atomic Bomb on Japan

  20. Civil Rights

  21. Police Action in Vietnam

  22. Genocide in Rwanda

  23. Non-Fiction • The following titles portray actual events.

  24. Non-fiction: Rick Geary’s“Treasury of Victorian Murder”

  25. The Beast of Chicago

  26. The Holocaust

  27. Making the Atomic Bomb

  28. History of the FBI • Find out why the FBI and CIA didn’t readily share information!

  29. Iran in the 1970s

  30. September 11th

  31. Investigative Journalism • Drawn and written by journalists. • Includes first-hand accounts of war-torn areas. Panel from Sacco’s Palestine.

  32. War in Yugoslavia

  33. Conflict between Israel and Palestine

  34. War against the Taliban • Decidedly “left-wing” in tone.

  35. Persian Gulf War II

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