Graphic Novel/Visual Literacy Text Presentation

Students in this course will have 10 minutes to present a graphic novel text of their choice or a text that focuses on the teaching and learning of visual literacy. Research shows a variety of methods of visual literacy instruction are worthwhile, and this is our opportunity to explore the options of how we can do instruction in these areas well. Each student is required to choose a text and to prepare a short talk to introduce the text to the class. As a teacher of adolescents, you will want to familiarize yourself with as much graphic novel literature research/theory that speaks to the teaching and learning of visual literacy. These text presentations will assist you in becoming familiar with the text that you choose, as well as the variety of texts and strategies that your classmates choose. Each student will be asked to provide a handout detailing the text for his/her classmates. 

 What to include in your presentation and handout:

1. Please include a detailed description of the text. Take into consideration that your colleagues might not be familiar with the text that you have chosen. A detailed description will include everything necessary for your classmates to gain an understanding of the text without reading it. Your job is to introduce the text in a complete way so that it is possible for others to decide when, where, and how this text might be appropriate.

  2. Please explain why you chose this text. What was your rationale? How does your understanding of this text influence your thinking about your teaching.

3. Please include some teaching ideas. How do you envision employing this text in a secondary English language arts classroom? Provide at least 3 specific ideas for what is possible with this text.

4. Please consider some challenges to using strategies from this text. What are the potential issues that may arise from using these strategies? Predict students’ responses. How will you address these challenges?

5. Anything else you think is important for us to know and understand about this text and its use with students.

Book talks will be 10 minutes each with an additional few minutes for questions and brief discussion about your text. When you have decided on a text, please email me at sagriss@ewu.edu with your selection. This way we can avoid overlap of texts. One of the goals of this assignment is to increase your potential library of texts, so it is important that we each choose something different. I will OK texts based on the order in which I receive emails. If you choose a text that someone else has already chosen, I will ask you to choose a different text.

Graphic Novel/Visual Literacy Text Presentation

Evaluation Rubric

____ / 10 Detailed outline of text

____ / 10 Rationale for choosing the text

____ / 10 Teaching ideas

____ / 10 Challenges

____ / 5 Handout

____ / 5 Presentation