Prompt:
After reading March: Book 1 and the first half of March: Book 2, and as you begin
to write about your experience with comics, use this discussion post as an
opportunity to brainstorm specific examples from your own life and from the text.
You can use the following questions to generate your discussion (but you do not
need to answer all of them):
● Have you read other comic books or graphic novels? Which comics?
● What is a positive experience that you have had with comics? Why?
● Do you have a favorite comic book or superhero? Who? Why?
● Does this story feel like the proper "fit" for the comic book format? Why?
Why not?
● Have you noticed some interesting comic book structural devices in this
text? Which devices?
● What do you think the message is of this text? What are some themes that
you get from this text?
Length: 250–500 words
Response:
I have not read many comics or graphic novels, but in middle school, I sometimes
read manga and Diary of a Wimpy Kid. I was never too interested in comics because
most of the books we had to read for school were traditional classic novels. I
After reading March: Book 1 and the first half of March: Book 2, and as you begin
to write about your experience with comics, use this discussion post as an
opportunity to brainstorm specific examples from your own life and from the text.
You can use the following questions to generate your discussion (but you do not
need to answer all of them):
● Have you read other comic books or graphic novels? Which comics?
● What is a positive experience that you have had with comics? Why?
● Do you have a favorite comic book or superhero? Who? Why?
● Does this story feel like the proper "fit" for the comic book format? Why?
Why not?
● Have you noticed some interesting comic book structural devices in this
text? Which devices?
● What do you think the message is of this text? What are some themes that
you get from this text?
Length: 250–500 words
Response:
I have not read many comics or graphic novels, but in middle school, I sometimes
read manga and Diary of a Wimpy Kid. I was never too interested in comics because
most of the books we had to read for school were traditional classic novels. I
