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Creative Possibilities for Teaching Graphic Narratives

Creative Possibilities for Teaching Graphic Narratives. Louann Reid Colorado State University. Graphic Narratives. book-length works composed in the medium of comics (H. Chute). Webcomics. Zahra’s Paradise http://www.zahrasparadise.com/lang/en/archives/76.

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Creative Possibilities for Teaching Graphic Narratives

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  1. Creative Possibilities for Teaching Graphic Narratives Louann Reid Colorado State University

  2. Graphic Narratives book-length works composed in the medium of comics (H. Chute)

  3. Webcomics • Zahra’s Paradise • http://www.zahrasparadise.com/lang/en/archives/76 • “Zahra’s Paradise isn’t just a cemetery where the world comes to an end. It’s also a womb, a garden, where the world is reborn. Sure, Neda is dead, Sohrab is dead, Mohsen is dead, and they’re all buried in Zahra’s Paradise. But just as there is death, so there is life and light bursting out of their shadow. Their virtual reflection, wrapped as fictional characters, allows us to raise our own imaginary army to intervene in history in real time.” Amir

  4. “Graphic Novels Make Me Nervous” • What do teachers who use graphic novels do? Help students realize how to juxtapose words and images to make meaning. Teach the craft of visual and verbal narrative. Support students in creating their own graphic narratives.

  5. “This isn’t serious literature. My students need a challenge.”

  6. Close Reading • My faith was not unshakable. The year of the revolution I had to take action. So I put my prophetic destiny aside for a while. “Today my name is Che Guevara.” “I am Fidel.” “And I want to be Trotsky.” We demonstrated in the garden of our house. “Down with the king!” “Down with the king!” The revolution is like a bicycle. When the wheels don’t turn, it falls. “Well spoken!” And so went the revolution in my country. • What is the subject? Who are the speakers?

  7. Sort and sequence • Open your envelope and take out the panels for the excerpt. • Put the panels in sequence. Be ready to explain why you chose the sequence you did. • Discuss how the words helped you read the pictures.

  8. “This is too easy. It’s just a bunch of pictures.” From David Considine and Gail Haley. Visual Messages: Integrating Imagery into Instruction. 2nd ed. Englewood, CO: Teacher Ideas Press, 1999.

  9. http://www.le.ac.uk/engassoc/images/imagesArrival.jpg

  10. www.shauntan.com

  11. www.shauntan.com

  12. http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2007/09/comics_arrival.htmlhttp://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2007/09/comics_arrival.html

  13. http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2007/09/comics_arrival.htmlhttp://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2007/09/comics_arrival.html

  14. Visual Storytelling • Pacing • Perspectives • Tone and Mood

  15. Pacing • How would you describe the connections between the first six panels? • What is the effect of combining six panels into one at the bottom of the page? • How does the writer’s pacing (through the use of panels in this way) operate in concert or in counterpoint to the story?

  16. Perspectives Angles and shots, using the language of film

  17. Tone and Mood • What effects are created with the panel borders? • What roles does lighting play in the effects of the images? • What roles do color and contrast play?

  18. Creating Comics • Amy Vail adapted excerpts of Twilight for her high school students, using the software program Comic Life. • Her explanations are on the conference wiki for this presentation. They can serve as a model for students’ thinking about the decisions they make as creators and the effects of those decisions on how the story is told. Literary Elements

  19. Dramatic Elements • Cinematic Elements

  20. Comics Creation Resources • Comics Creation SoftwareComic Life• Kerpoof • Comicssketch • Comics Lab/ Extreme • PikiStrips • Toondoo • Bubblr • Comiqs • My Comic Book Creator • BitStrips • ReadWriteThink's Comic Creator • Make Beliefs Comix • Myths & Legends Story Creator • Cartoonist • Pixton• Chogger• • http://mcpopmb.ning.com/group/graphicnovelscomics • (Making Curriculum Pop is hosted by Ryan Goble. Joining this network is free, and you’ll be connected with teachers, writers, and artists who are as interested in graphic narratives as you are or want to be.)

  21. Beyond Today • Please see the conference wiki page for this session. • Let’s talk during the conference. I would really like to know what you see as creative possibilities for teaching graphic narratives. • You can continue the conversation via email to Louann.Reid@colostate.edu.

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