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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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, by Art Spiegelman.

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.

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.

A brief overview of some Graphic Novels: Panel from Satrapi’s Persepolis.

Collected works Compilation of many individual cartoons. Very useful for classroom use! Panel from the Big Book of Thugs.

Women in Science

“Big” Books

Pass example from Big Book of Thugs

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.

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

Low Reading Level and High Interest Battle of Thermopylae (Spartans Fight the Persians)

Advanced Readers The Trojan War

Anti-semitism in the US (20’s)

The Great Depression

Includes local references (Lakewood as a resort community).

Jews Fight Back in the Warsaw Ghetto

Fighting WWII

Effects of the Atomic Bomb on Japan

Civil Rights

Police Action in Vietnam

Genocide in Rwanda

Non-Fiction The following titles portray actual events.

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

The Beast of Chicago

The Holocaust

Making the Atomic Bomb

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

Iran in the 1970s

September 11th

Investigative Journalism Drawn and written by journalists. Includes first- hand accounts of war-torn areas. Panel from Sacco’s Palestine.

War in Yugoslavia

Conflict between Israel and Palestine

War against the Taliban Decidedly “left- wing” in tone.

Persian Gulf War II