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Teaching a graphic novel
An excerpt by Karen Jacobson about teaching my graphic novel THE LISTENER in her classroom:
One of the most powerful ways the students utilized the historical and visual nature of The Listener was in seeing the connection between events of the past and present.
One student prepared a multimedia presentation for the class that explored the many ways in which Lester used another visual technique, superimposition, in this book. An example is a series of images that portrays Louise in a tour of a concentration camp; ghostly outlines of the former inmates take up increasing amounts of the image as reflections on their experience increasingly possess her thoughts.
The presentation powerfully conveyed one of the ways in which a graphic novel is unique as a literary/art form; this student's insightful ideas were alluded to frequently by other students in subsequent class discussions as they pointed out additional examples of superimposition in the chapters they had studied.
-- "Challenging Stories: Canadian Literature for Social Justice in the Classroom" (Canadian Scholars' Press, 2017)
https://www.amazon.ca/Challenging-Sto...
One of the most powerful ways the students utilized the historical and visual nature of The Listener was in seeing the connection between events of the past and present.
One student prepared a multimedia presentation for the class that explored the many ways in which Lester used another visual technique, superimposition, in this book. An example is a series of images that portrays Louise in a tour of a concentration camp; ghostly outlines of the former inmates take up increasing amounts of the image as reflections on their experience increasingly possess her thoughts.
The presentation powerfully conveyed one of the ways in which a graphic novel is unique as a literary/art form; this student's insightful ideas were alluded to frequently by other students in subsequent class discussions as they pointed out additional examples of superimposition in the chapters they had studied.
-- "Challenging Stories: Canadian Literature for Social Justice in the Classroom" (Canadian Scholars' Press, 2017)
https://www.amazon.ca/Challenging-Sto...
