Booklet - Graphic Novels - IB Literature

A printable, pdf booklet to guide students through the IB Diploma where student self-select a graphic novel text.

The booklet covers a range of activities to expand students’ ability to understand and appreciate the AoEs, as well as identify these ideas and medium-specific techniques in the poetry.

Contents of this booklet:

The Graphic Novel
Key vocabulary
Thinking through the format
A Contract with God ~ Will Eisner
Persepolis ~ Marjane Satrapi
Maus ~ Art Spiegelman
Banned Book Club ~ Kim Hyun Sook
Long Way Down ~ Jason Reynolds
The Comic Strip
Issues within comics
Ginger Meggs, Garfield, Pickles, The Phantom, The Smurfs
Contemporary Possibilities of Storytelling: The Boat ~ Nam Lee
Hidden ~ Mirranda Burton
I am Alfonzo Jones ~ Tony Medina
This is a standalone student booklet which can be used as a foundation of an HL Literature unit where a graphic novel is the chosen text, as it is aligned with the IB Diploma Syllabus.