Frankenstein Graphic Novel

The graphic novels are something I had never thought about using in my classroom until this class. I didn’t even know that it existed. After reading the Frankenstein graphic novel, I was able to come to a few conclusions about how I would like to use it in my classroom. I think that the graphic novel canon as a whole would be beneficial to a classroom for age’s 6^th-12^th grade. However, for this specific graphic novel, there were a few scenes that were a little graphic and so I think that keeping this Frankenstein novel as part of a high school curriculum would be a smart idea. Many students struggle when reading literature because they cannot fully grasp what the words on the page are trying to say. I think that incorporating in a graphic novel like this where it is mainly pictures, with words to narrate what is happening, can be helpful to students who cannot totally understand yet the literature in form of just words.

As I have said in a few of my posts before, research shows that students tend to lose interest in reading after junior high. I think that because of this research, bringing in a different form of reading in the form of the graphic novel can be beneficial to high school aged students because they won’t feel like they are just “doing more reading”. It is a different way to engage students in the literature that we as teachers want them to read. I think that involving many different forms of literature into the curriculum, including the graphic novel, will be one of the most important ways to keep our students, young and old, interested in literature.