Comics

The Article “How comic books can change the way our students see literature: One teacher’s perspective” talked about how sometimes it can be hard in the classrooms to make literature fun and interesting for the students. This article gives us many ideas of how teachers can use comics/graphics to make the classroom fun and entertaining. Reading these comics books makes students reading enjoyable and surprisingly many students don’t read comic book because they feel that they have outgrown the pictures. Comic books also help to develop much needed analytical and critical thinking skills (61). The primary motivation for using comic books in class is to provide the students to think deeply about the artistic value is accorded to particular works or gestures. Students are then able to defend their literary judgment. Thinking back to my elementary school days I feel that if we had given this new opportunity of reading it would have helped us a lot more because reading time used to be boring and the same thing every day. The talk on ted was really interesting too, it shows how new generations are learning differently than past generations … new generations are using more technology. We as teachers need to incorporate that in the classroom.  Remixes are great to use in the classroom. Gives the students a new way to think, create and new ways of learning. We have to be the change that we want to see!

Reading comics was really interesting! At times it was really frustrating because it was my first time reading a comic book ever! And I didn’t exactly know how to read this comic book. It took me a while to really understand how to read it. Pictures are amazing! I think we all need a visual of a story once in a while. This section of Reading comics has given me new ways to think of literature. Comics can be a fun activity a classroom. I plan to use comics in my classroom by reading a story and making comic strips out of the story. Also, making a remix out of the ending of a story would be amazing for the students! I’m sure that they would love it and enjoy it.