CASSANDRA REVELES: BLOG 6 SMILE :)

The resource link that I clicked on was Bookshelf from Diamond Comics. I would say that at first the website seemed a little weird and little confusing. However after navigating it for a bit I found it is a useful resource for teachers because it provides lesson plans to a variety of graphic novels. I am reading Smile by Raina Telgemeier, although I was unable to find this book on the website they did have her other book Drama and that can be an alternative book I can use in my classroom to introduce graphic novels to my students. I find it helpful that it provides a lesson plan because it makes it easier for me and I can always change it to accommodate my students or give me an idea of how I can teach to the graphic novel.  

When I first started reading Smile by Raina Telgemeier, I will say I found it hard to read because there was so much to look at I didn’t know whether to look at the pictures first or read the panel and then look at the pictures. I also didn’t know the order of how the panels went at first but the more I read the more it made sense and got easier to read. I really enjoyed the novel. I felt it was easier to read the words first and then look at the pictures because that made more sense to me. I heard other classmates say they liked to look at the picture first and see how the text corresponded to them.

I liked that the pictures give off more detail to the words on the page and just brought everything together. I wonder if I would have enjoyed the novel as much as I did if it did not have those images to go with it. The pictures made me life and made me relate to the novel on another level. I really enjoyed this novel.