Heart of the City by Steenz for April 18, 2019

Good one Heart! Well played.

I’d be surprised that either all or some of the graphic novel readers there are Heart’s classmates in Mr. Burgess’s class.

What teach? You’d rather she get the whole group?

I’d side with Heart. If a kid will get deeply involved with a story with graphics, they are still reading. Did you know you can get a Manga Bible? From Genesis to Revelation? Let me tell you, it’s graphic!.

100% with Heart!

Well, as Somerset Maugham put it, “if forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie.”

If reading a graphic novel like Maus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maus), a Pulitzer Prize winner, isn’t reading, then I’ll submit many books without pictures shouldn’t qualify either.

As long as he’s judging books on appearances, rather than content, I suppose I should confess that a lot of my books look like my cell phone.

YES!

I guess that teaches Mr. Burguess NOT to mess with Heart…. one point to the oppressed!

Heart brought an army.

Reader powers unite!

Many great classics have been reproduced as graphic novel.

YES!!! <3

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She’s certainly learned a lot from this project, that’s for sure.

I’d have done some research and told him what some very important adults thought about the subject. Or I’d sic Neil Gaiman on him. Same results.

Ya gotta have Heart ;)

Hence the answer to that famous question, “You and what army?”

A woman i worked for in IT originally taught high school remedial English. She had her students bring stuff to class to read aloud. They could bring comics, car magazines, celebrity trash, anything they wanted. It got them engaged in a way that “good” reading matter couldn’t.

Heart could have brought in the school librarian….

Unfortunately, that group proves the teacher’s point and explains alot about kids today.

Our name is Legion, for we are many.

We had to have our book approved by the teacher before even doing the report.

He never said reading a graphic novel wasn’t reading, he said it wasn’t the same as reading a book and he’s right. They’re two different mediums. Reading a graphic novel adaptation of a book is not the same thing as reading the book itself.

I too read a great many graphic novels, and some are just that. They are autobiographies, science fiction adventure, and many are magnificent. So I side with Heart too.

Good to see the large population of girls in that last panel.

Well at least they are reading SOMETHING! Sometimes as a teacher you have to pick your battles.

So I get the complaint Burgess has. Text-only novels are generally longer, more complex, and more boring to read. Kids should have a tough time with reading so that they can develop negative associations with it. That way, when they become adults, they’ll generally try to avoid reading books at all (besides textbooks) because of terrible memories from school. After all, that’s what HE probably had to do.