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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,

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Page 1: 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,

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Page 2: 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,

What is a Graphic Novel?• Any book written in a picture-panel format.

Panel from the Pulitzer Prize winning Maus, by Art Spiegelman.

Page 3: 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,

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.

Page 4: 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,

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.

Page 5: 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,

A brief overview of some Graphic Novels:

Panel from Satrapi’s Persepolis.

Page 6: 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,

Collected works

• Compilation of many individual cartoons.

• Very useful for classroom use!

Panel from the Big Book of Thugs.

Page 7: 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,

Women in Science

Page 9: 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,

Pass example from

Big Book of Thugs

Page 10: 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,

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.

Page 11: 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,

Low Reading Level: DK Graphic ReadersHistorical Fiction set in Ancient Greece, Rome, China and Egypt

Page 12: 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,

Low Reading Leveland

High Interest

Battle of Thermopylae

(Spartans Fight the Persians)

Page 14: 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,

Anti-semitism in the US (20’s)

Page 15: 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,

The Great Depression

Page 16: 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,

Includes local references

(Lakewood as a resort

community).

Page 17: 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,

Jews Fight Back in the Warsaw Ghetto

Page 18: 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,

Fighting WWII

Page 19: 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,

Effects of the Atomic Bomb on Japan

Page 20: 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,

Civil Rights

Page 21: 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,

Police Action in Vietnam

Page 22: 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,

Genocide in Rwanda

Page 23: 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,

Non-Fiction

• The following titles portray actual events.

Page 24: 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,

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

Page 25: 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,

The Beast of Chicago

Page 26: 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,

The Holocaust

Page 27: 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,

Making the

Atomic Bomb

Page 28: 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,

History of the FBI

• Find out why the FBI and CIA didn’t readily share information!

Page 29: 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,

Iran in the 1970s

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September 11th

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Investigative Journalism

• Drawn and written by journalists.

• Includes first-hand accounts of war-torn areas.

Panel from Sacco’s Palestine.

Page 32: 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,

War in Yugoslavia

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Conflict between Israel and Palestine

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War against the Taliban

• Decidedly “left-wing” in tone.

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Persian Gulf War II