Group Teach- Neil Gaymen's 'Violent Cases'

This group teach was truly impressive. The idea of teaching a graphic novel is becoming more and more appealing to me and this presentation pushed my curiosity even further. The leaders had us look through the book and point out what we thought wa sinteresting about the dialogue, narration, illustration and/or other parts of the book that stood out to us. I particularly liked the illustration in the novel and how it gave further emphasis on whatever the narrator said. This provided a segue for the group to talk about comics and the different elements within them. They showed us a book that had the technical terms of some elements used in creating a comic. That was interesting because in a high school classroom, it could gude students on how to write their own comic, which is pretty cool.
The activity that I liked the most was the whole 'is it a comic' activity. The leader of this portion handed out a sheet of paper with photos seemingly in sequential order. He asked if this could possibly be a story and if there was some connection between the photos. The questions he asked really just led to the premise that illustrations lead to imagination and so does text. I would definitely use this in my classroom. There are other ways this can be tweaked in a classroom. Thi scan even serve as a heuristic to begin a graphic novel, asking students whether the illustrations take away from the imaginative element of literature. It can get students thinking even before they start reading.
Graphic novels are extremely unconventional and are a great way to be 'revolutionary' as a teacher today. I also liked the whole memory segment that this group did. Even though they didn't use psychoanalytic theory, this novel can be viewed through this lense, particularly concerning memory and repression. This book had many different aspects and the group did a great job touching on a few of them.