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Using Graphic Novels to Foster Academic Language

Amid students reading all those books, Heidi and Darah tried to get Deaf students in touch with some deeper concepts related to stories and how our Dei culture creates them. They taught minilessons that in eluded the Hero cycle and Hero types as described the American mythologist Joseph Campbell (see www jcf.org), and students created a bulletin board when they classified characters from their comics based 01 that idea of archetypes. Some students mused over their place in hero categorization, debating when they considered themselves a warrior-type hero or lost soul. The teachers also introduced ideas of premise, plot, and twist in MBT Shoes the creation of stories, especial comic books. The comic Invincible provided a great model for this concept as the "sketchbook" part o the book included the author's own summary of the premise, plot, and twist, as well as sample scripts ant sketches of characters. Elements of the lesson planning are found in Table 4.

To better help Deaf students understand specific concepts, particularly storytelling elements, Darah and Heidi relied on familiar and unfamiliar movies to provide an additional visual context for classroom discussions. For overall introduction to comics and graphic novels, as well as to highlight the key literature components of premise, plot, and twist, the Students watched the film Unbreakable, in which everyman Bruce Willis comes to terms with his own saxhorn powers with help from comic gallery owner luel L. Jackson. This film by M. Night Shyamalan lows the traditional comic book structure of premed plot, and twist in addition to illustrating the basic arc that narratives follow.

To illustrate characterization, students watched to Disney film Sky High, in which traditional comic rer archetypes (freezing, super speed and strengthen, and so forth) have been recycled into a type-high school teen drama set to a 1980s soundtrack, also provided an opportunity to talk about the of comic book characters and how traditional names reflect the powers a superhero Clearance MBT Shoes possesses, sometimes with obvious or ironic results. The students' favorite lesson involved watching clips from me of the teachers' favorite movies to illustrate the T&normal/normal character in a normal/abnormal situation, the premise of many of these stories. These included clips from Shaun of the Dead, Blade, Trinity, Napoleon Dynamite, and Little Miss Sunshine, Using these closed captioned movies really helped ' when later discussing the students' own comic book .creations. These movies and subsequent discussions provided a scaffold for the students to plan the premed for their own stories, plot their story arcs, select characters, and flesh out descriptions.

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