Visual Literacy - Graphic Canon Volume 2
"A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read."
- Mark Twain
What? This heavy book is filled with snippets of graphic versions of the classics that we have all had the privilege of reading: Edgar Allen Poe, The Scarlet Letter, Oliver Twist, Pride and Prejudice, Frankenstein, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Dr, Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Picture of Dorian Gray, and Huckleberry Finn. The book shows a sample of what is out there in the classics transformed to graphics.
Why? I chose this
text because I was looking for interesting ways to teach classic novels and get
students excited about seeing them in new ways. More specifically Huckleberry Finn because it is a story
that we’ve all read and can remember the torture of reading this. Learning the
classics can be super annoying as a teenager, but it is still a very important part of culture and this
culture educates you and broadens your mind. As outdated as these novels may
seem to our students, they teach timeless lessons that still apply today.
How? Ways to use
the Graphic Canon to inspire…
1. I think it would be fun to have
students in a class each take a chapter or two and transform it into a simple
graphic novel or scene and create a complete graphic novel unique to each
class.
2. The graphics and simple text of
the graphic novel can help simplify the story and help draw emotion that may
otherwise get lost in our literary application. Pictures help with textual
understanding.
3. I would love to have my class
read both the graphic novel version and the original version and do a
comparison of the texts. Different things will stand out in each version. The
graphic novel will miss details of the original and the graphic novel can offer
understanding that was overlooked by the reader in the original text.
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