Disciplinary Text: Graphic Novels
Graphic Novels: An Introduction into Loving Literature As many of us have already seen, we have an upcoming epidemic (and I'm not talking about Covid-19). I see more and more youth every day exclaim their hatred for reading. Out of the 60 sophomores I teach at the Barack Obama School of Career and Technical Education, I only have about 4 students who enjoy reading. Reading, in the school context, is projected as a huge task that is chalk full of activities to do in class. Students equate reading with grades and therefore dislike reading. Many students also get lost in text, do not feel connected to the reading, or just simply find the text boring. For these reasons and more, I decided to try to find a way to make reading fun for my students, this way their more apt to participate and more likely to develop an enjoyment of reading. Graphic novels were the first thing to come to my mind to foster an enjoyment of reading. They are, typically but not ...