1. Learning History Through Graphic Novels

2. What is a Graphic Novel? Any book written in a picture-panel format. Panel from the Pulitzer Prize winning Maus, by Art Spiegelman.

3. 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.

4. 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.

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

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

7. Women in Science

8. “Big” Books

9. Pass example from Big Book of Thugs

10. 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.

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

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

13. Advanced Readers The Trojan War

14. Anti-semitism in the US (20’s)

15. The Great Depression

16. Includes local references (Lakewood as a resort community).

17. Jews Fight Back in the Warsaw Ghetto

18. Fighting WWII

19. Effects of the Atomic Bomb on Japan

20. Civil Rights

21. Police Action in Vietnam

22. Genocide in Rwanda

23. Non-Fiction The following titles portray actual events.

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

25. The Beast of Chicago

26. The Holocaust

27. Making the Atomic Bomb

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

29. Iran in the 1970s

30. September 11th

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

32. War in Yugoslavia

33. Conflict between Israel and Palestine

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

35. Persian Gulf War II