Graphic Novels : Are They `` Real `` Literature?

The school board is not quite certain that schools should continue to include fiction in the curriculum. However, if fiction is taught to students it may actually teach life lessons. Fictional literature can change someone's perspective on, what problems we may come across. For instance, a fictional book can help us relate to all the controversial problems that do occur in today's society. I disagree with the school board's thoughts about completely banning it. This type of literature can deepen our knowledge and teach us about things that we don’t experience on a day to day basis.

The audience in this literacy narrative essay is widespread because people from different social-cultural groups might be interested, but most importantly people from upper-middle class. Alexie's purpose is to express how anyone don't need to be affluent to learn. He expresses his point well in the literacy narrative essay and his tone is inspirational because he uses positive words such as “loved”, “bright eyes” and “lucky” to give an inspirational message to the reader. Alexie’s main idea in the literacy narrative essay “The Joy of Reading and Writing”: Superman and Me is how Alexie used his own personal experiences to express his point of view, about his love of reading. He learns to read with a superman comic book for the first time when

Fiction novel’s shows us the views and perspective others. This type of literature help us gain a more broader perspective and can teach us more about our society. The idea of banning fictional novels is a very foolish idea. These novels do more good than they do harm and are beneficial for our curriculum and learning. Taking away this literature will not benefit our learning and will only harm our learning. “Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.’’ said G.K. Chesterton.

Shouldn't fiction be part of students’ curriculum in their academics? School board across the states no longer has a place for fiction in school curriculum. From the beginning of time, many of native storytellers carry morals through generations of passing down customs, history and heritage. Such as Always Running by Luis Rodriguez, there are morals into which one retell and learns from mistakes. It is important today in which storytelling had been around from cave paintings, movies to novels. Without history, without the storytelling, mankind would not learn from their mistakes, never dream of heroes like Alfred Einstein and would not acknowledge anything of the past. Mankind would bewildered of the past, then eventually will be hopeless in

Children’s literature is an effective teaching tool for children but also a way for children to escape their daily lives through fantasy. Didactic material can be used to teach life lessons, manners and morals where subversive and fantasy genres can allow children to release from daily expectations and allows an outlet for their large imaginations.

In conclusion reading graphic novels have many positives and make school like a whole lot easier. It should definetly be used in school. It can give you the same exact information the only difference is it's easier to

While there are some negative aspects, as there is in anything, the positive aspects outweigh the negative ones. There may be specific topics in the novel that students are not quite ready for, but if the student is allowed the opportunity to develop an opinion early, maybe knowledge and tolerance for the subjects in the novel will be achieved. Most would agree that education is better when started early. Would we not want to form an opinion in a student’s mind early based on the previous statement? The best way to teach a classroom, as previously stated, would include learning the history behind the subjects in the novel, that the author does not have bad intentions when writing the novel, and that tolerance and acceptance for the subjects in the novel can be

Children who watch T.V shows instead of reading the book won’t have the same feel and the details they should have gotten. Even though the children have fun watching the T.V. They will hate reading books in the future and depend on technology to help them.

Each of the concepts in the article, “Books for Young Readers” addresses the goal of student interest and engagement in reading. The section, “Ways of Reading” talks about balancing the personal and pedagogical responses to reading, which is not easy to achieve. Laura Jimenez and Kristin Mcilhagga are refreshingly open and honest in discussing their lesson on children’s historical fiction where they used the graphic novel, Storm in the Barn, by Matt Phelan. The book served their pedagogical objectives, but neither Lisa nor Kristin liked the book themselves and their students noticed. When asked if they liked the book, they had to admit that they did not. Educators must put themselves in their students’ position when seeking interesting and

More specifically, kids in that age group have experienced trauma and don’t understand how to handle it, and fiction novels can help them. For example, “The Boy in the Black Suit” describes a young teenager that just went through a loss of his mother and experiences depression, but then shows how he lives on with happiness and copes with his depression. Although Catherine Gewertz might object that majority of fiction books don’t have applications to real life and non-fiction can produce the same results, but I maintain that teachers can hand pick a selection of books that apply and nonfiction cannot pinpoint problems as precisely as fiction. Therefore I conclude that fiction has an important place in high school curriculum and benefits students greatly in using empathy and dealing with

Throughout the article, Reeve continues to say that the books children are reading today are grim. He lists a few examples of books such as Fahrenheit 451 and the Hunger Games to support his ideas. He begins to mention that the things his generation read were science fiction

When trying to teach an author’s work, a movie is an inadequate way to do so, especially in a formal environment. In a classroom, it can be a struggle to gain the attention of students when they may not be interested in the subject at hand and a movie may seem like a good way to attract focus. In reality though, a movie will only deter the education of the students. On movie days, the class attendance is noticeably lower than on a regular day. This can be attributed to how a student perceives watching a movie in class. Ever since elementary school, watching a movie in class meant learning time has stopped. This continues through middle and high school where teachers show movies for days after the class may have taken a big test and the teacher decided the students needed a break. Teachers also show movies when they are absent and a substitute teacher—who is not prepared or willing to teach a difficult, high school subject—covers the class, and no new material is taught. This mindset sticks with a student, so when a professor in college says the next class is a movie day, the student instantly thinks they can skip class because nothing new will be taught. These thoughts also

However, when kids have low self-esteem, they aren't strong readers and that can discourage them from wanting to read. But these type of books are a great way to promote literacy. Naturally, administrators do not want to give ESL or ELA students “picture books.” Kids would reject that and deem it embarrassing because that is how comic books were so generally perceived. However, a comic book at a lower reading level might give kids the reading confidence they need while boosting their reading and language skills. This is true even among a higher level of education or corporal business as explained in a graphic presentation of an empirical examination of the graphic novel

I chose to read and comment on Barbara Kiefer’s “Envisioning Experience: The Potential of Picture Books.” Kiefer’s main point in writing this essay was to get the message across that children enjoy picture books that allow them to identify and make connections with the characters or the plots, and that while reading and analyzing the pictures, they gain a better sense of aesthetics and how to interpret them.

Reading develops a person’s creativity. Unlike movies where everything is determined by the producer, writer and director, books allow students to create in their minds how a particular character looks like or imagine how a scene plays out.