Write about an event in your own life that has made you who you are or about an event in your family history
Essay # 3 – Graphic Novels
As a literary and artistic form, graphic novels combine the visual with text to create rich and complex narratives. They also require a different kind of “reading” than students might be used to. Graphic narratives are quintessentially multimodal, and require new ways of reading that call on both visual and verbal modes.
Format Requirements: Front Cover with Title and Author’s name, Five pages&25 panels minimum.
Purpose: to write an essay in Graphic Novel form.
Audience: your classmates, instructors, and people unfamiliar with the topic.
Length: 5 pages – any final papers less than five pages score an F.
Prompt
In both “The House on Mango Street” and “American Born Chinese” the authors have written about events from their own lives. For this essay, in graphic novel form, you will write about an event in your own life that has made you who you are or about an event in your family history that has made you who you are? Please choose an event that feels most important or interesting to you. Please do not choose an event that you do not feel comfortable sharing with the public.
Essay requirements: Your story must follow a format that readers can understand. Your story must contain a theme. You must use different emotional effects in your artwork. There must be speech and there must be sounds (For Example: THUD! ZAP! WHACK!).
Things to consider: What happened? Who was involved? Where did it happen? What were the sights, sounds, or smells you remember? How has this event shaped you?
Planning: Make a timeline of what happened. Break the story down into little things that occurred and put them into chronological order.
Templates are available but you are welcome to use your own format as long as your essay is five pages and a minimum of 25 panels.
You are welcome to submit work in black & white, and in color. You can use art or drawing programs on computers, your work doesn’t have to be hand drawn.
As a literary and artistic form, graphic novels combine the visual with text to create rich and complex narratives. They also require a different kind of “reading” than students might be used to. Graphic narratives are quintessentially multimodal, and require new ways of reading that call on both visual and verbal modes.
Format Requirements: Front Cover with Title and Author’s name, Five pages&25 panels minimum.
Purpose: to write an essay in Graphic Novel form.
Audience: your classmates, instructors, and people unfamiliar with the topic.
Length: 5 pages – any final papers less than five pages score an F.
Prompt
In both “The House on Mango Street” and “American Born Chinese” the authors have written about events from their own lives. For this essay, in graphic novel form, you will write about an event in your own life that has made you who you are or about an event in your family history that has made you who you are? Please choose an event that feels most important or interesting to you. Please do not choose an event that you do not feel comfortable sharing with the public.
Essay requirements: Your story must follow a format that readers can understand. Your story must contain a theme. You must use different emotional effects in your artwork. There must be speech and there must be sounds (For Example: THUD! ZAP! WHACK!).
Things to consider: What happened? Who was involved? Where did it happen? What were the sights, sounds, or smells you remember? How has this event shaped you?
Planning: Make a timeline of what happened. Break the story down into little things that occurred and put them into chronological order.
Templates are available but you are welcome to use your own format as long as your essay is five pages and a minimum of 25 panels.
You are welcome to submit work in black & white, and in color. You can use art or drawing programs on computers, your work doesn’t have to be hand drawn.
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