Graphic Novel Text Set
Introduction The following texts would be used in my urban 10th-grade ELA classroom, after learning from a questionnaire I collected from my students in the first week of school that when given the choice, over 70% of students would choose to read a graphic novel instead of a traditional, text-based novel. Other important information I gathered from this report was that many students reported not reading a book in their free time since elementary school, and 40% admitted that they have never read a whole-class book assigned to them in full. I have used this same questionnaire for the past several years of my teaching, but it has not been until recently- maybe the past five or so years- that students have shown this much reluctance to "traditional" texts, as well as such a strong interest in graphic novels. This year specifically, over half of the books students chose as their all-time favorite text fell in the graphic novel/anime/comic genre. With this data, I am planning my ...