Reflection on "Violent Cases"

I thought that our group covered Graphic Novels and Violent Cases very well. I hadn't really ever considered teaching a graphic novel until doing this group teach. I think I might put some more thought into the content of the graphic novel's and age appropriateness of them but for college students Violent Cases worked well. I appreciated that it sparked some interesting discussion and different interpretations of the events within it. I thought that the activity with Marxism worked well especially when applied to Violent Cases. The preparation in teaching this topic led us to many conclusions that I really never thought of before setting out to accomplish it. Graphic Novels can teach social justice issues and can teach them extremly well. In researching graphic novels are on the michigan content standards. My favorite activity would have to be the one where we created the comic strip one panel at a time without talking to each other. I thought it was a fun activity that allowed us to be creative and try to formulate a story out of what little material we had to work with. I thought we did a great job in conveying our message and points and we worked extremly well together.