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How to “read” graphic t exts and n ovels

How to “read” graphic t exts and n ovels. An introduction to Maus. Literacy—What does it mean to be “literate?”. Literacy is the ability to read, write, and think critically about the written word. Literacy must also include Visual Literacy

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How to “read” graphic t exts and n ovels

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  1. How to “read” graphic texts and novels An introduction to Maus

  2. Literacy—What does it mean to be “literate?” • Literacy is the ability to read, write, and think critically about the written word. • Literacy must also include Visual Literacy • Once out of the English classroom, we are faced with information input that is not simply black print on paper • The internet, radio, TV and film, art, dance, graphic texts—all of these are open for our understanding and critical thinking explorations…if we know how to “read” them

  3. Rosie the Riveter

  4. WWII

  5. Images are used to enhance Rhetoric—Pathos, Logos, and Ethos • Images are used to convince, encourage, persuade • Images are also used to tell a story

  6. None of these have been “comics” What makes images a “comic” or “graphic novel?”

  7. Sequential Art • The Bayeux Tapestry

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