I introduce my students to 21 visual formats for capturing their responses to reading assignments.
The color images that follow were drawn by students in my literature and writing classes from fall 2009 through fall 2010.
They are in response to a variety of reading assignments, including MAUS, Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics, John Gage’s The Shape of Reason, and selections from American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau and from The Oxford Book of American Short Stories.
2. I introduce my students to 21 visual formats for capturing their responses to reading assignments.
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4. The color images that follow were drawn by students in my literature and writing classes from fall 2009 through fall 2010.
5. They are in response to a variety of reading assignments, including MAUS, Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics, John Gage’s The Shape of Reason, and selections from American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau and from The Oxford Book of American Short Stories.
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Here they are in five groups.
Portraits
From Speigelman’s MAUS I.
from SAND COUNTY ALMANAC by Aldo Leopold
Elmer Kelton’s THE TIME IT NEVER RAINED
Mary Karr’s CHERRY
Maps
From “The White Heron” by Sarah Orne Jewett
from THE END OF NATURE by Bill McKibben
Scott McCloud’s UNDERSTANDING COMICS
This a comic panel with two people in dialogue.
Scott McCloud’s UNDERSTANDING COMICS
Scott McCloud’s UNDERSTANDING COMICS
Comparison/contrast
Venn diagram
From “The White Heron” by Sarah Orne Jewett
“A Clean Well-Lighted Place” by Ernest Hemingway
“Heat” by Joyce Carol Oates
Seesaw
From “The White Heron” by Sarah Orne Jewett
Scales
“In a Far Country” by Jack London
Like a tree.
Speigelman’s MAUS I
Draft of Argument 1 in English 1302: Writing Across the Curriculum on Dan Roam’s THE BACK OF THE NAPKIN
The common web for brainstorming and mindmapping.
Bill McKibben’s Introduction to AMERICAN EARTH: ENVIRONMENTAL WRITING SINCE THOREAU
Thoreau’s JOURNALS
The organizational chart.
Which becomes a genealogical chart if you flip it.
Bar charts
from “The Population Bomb” by Paul Ehrlich
“A Clean Well-Lighted Place” by Ernest Hemingway
Pie charts
from “The Population Bomb” by Paul Ehrlich
And multivariable charts. Roam puts this in the “why?” category.
Timeline
“A Journey” by Edith Wharton
Speigelman’s MAUS I
Before and after. Also, could fit in the “pairs” category.
“Heat” by Joyce Carol Oates
Scott McCloud’s UNDERSTANDING COMICS
Speigelman’s MAUS I
The equation.
“Heat” by Joyce Carol Oates
A flow chart.
From SILENT SPRING by Rachel Carson
John Gage’s THE SHAPE OF ARGUMENT
Draft of Argument 1 in English 1302: Writing Across the Curriculum
John Gage’s THE SHAPE OF ARGUMENT
Freytag’s pyramid plot line
This is another multivariable chart or +/- plot line that shows progression up and down and left to right. I learned about this from my friend Austin Kleon who learned it from Kurt Vonnegut’s book Palm Sunday. I don’t know where Kurt Vonnegut learned it.
“A White Heron” by Sarah Orne Jewett
“A Journey” by Edith Wharton
“A Journey” by Edith Wharton
This image is sediment, layers moving from bottom to top.