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Coming Face to Face with Persepolis

Coming Face to Face with Persepolis. Some ideas on how to read, question, analyze, connect and discuss a graphic memoir set in another culture using a Western structure. Let’s start by revisiting our stereotype exercise.

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Coming Face to Face with Persepolis

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  1. Coming Face to Face with Persepolis Some ideas on how to read, question, analyze, connect and discuss a graphic memoir set in another culture using a Western structure

  2. Let’s start by revisiting our stereotype exercise • In your warm up notebook, list 5 words that come to mind when you hear the phrase “Middle East” • Now, list 5 words that come to mind when you hear “Muslim” • Finally, list 5 words that come to mind when you hear “comic book”

  3. What did you write? • Are there any overlaps between the first and second set of words? • Why do you think that is so? • Where do those ideas come from? • Are there any overlaps between the first two sets and the third set? Why or why not?

  4. So, why does Satrapi use a graphic form to tell her story?

  5. Satrapi deliberately wants to . . . • Establish her identity in a shifting world • Engage her reader in understanding her culture of origin as a complex, multi-layered society • Challenge the assumptions of the West about Iran • Juxtapose the ideas each culture has about itself with the reality of what happens when they intersect

  6. As you read (or reread) then, • Keep track of your own expectations for the narrative—what do you expect to see and read and what do you actually experience • You should have MANY questions about background—write them down • Notice when the drawings get bigger, smaller, or zoom in or out. Change in picture means something important is going on!

  7. Some graphic novel terms to use as you write & discuss: PANEL: Individual picture FRAME: The lines that border the panel GUTTER: Space between panels BLEED: When art breaks the frame BUBBLE: Where dialogue occurs (“speech” or “thought”) CAPTIONS: Information provided by the author, artist, or a character off-panel Read it left to right, just like… a novel.

  8. Let’s “read” the first page together and talk strategies

  9. Who is the “other” in this text? • The “other” is a person we perceive as different and separate (and usually not equal) from ourselves • What “others” does Satrapi make us look at (literally) in this text?

  10. Reading expectations: • I think we can “get through” the reading this week, even with working on our Interactive Orals. • So, break it into 3 parts: • Read her introduction through to pg. 54 (Moscow) • Next, from 54 to pg. 102 (the Wine is on 103) • And, from Wine on pg. 103 to the end You should make annotations on sticky notes or on notebook paper

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