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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Graphic “novels” are a scourge. Having “novel” even in the name is absurd. All they do is enable weaker readers to remain weaker readers while pretending they are actually reading a book. While students reading actual books are reading fluency, comprehension and stamina. [/quote]

The smartest kids read both because they understand it’s the quality of content and not volume.  High schools and colleges assign graphic novel.   Books like Maus, a Pulitzer Prize winning graphic novel by Art Spiegelman who wrote his father’s story living through the holocaust using cartoon mice and cats and pigs instead of people.

Keep an open mind.

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Fine for entertainment.  However, there are many, many, better books on WWII from an educational standpoint.  High schoolers 
/middle schoolers would be better benefited from being assigned to read Schindler’s List, The Great Escape, Unbroken…there are so many. [/quote]

Nobody is saying that graphic novels are taking the place of serious WW2 books.  What you listed were feel good stories that happened during WW2, which are fine.

The reason Maus was awarded a Pulitzer Prize is the graphics and the story of his father surviving the Holocaust in Poland told in a unique way.    It’s one man’s story and it’s not taking the place of textbooks and facts about the war.

I have a feeling you’ve never bothered to read one.

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Graphic novels are absolutely taking the place of full length novels both outside the classroom and inside the classroom.  Yes, I have read Maus.  It’s clever- but I don’t think it’s the best literature choice for school.  2 of 3 books my middle schooler was assigned to read for 7th grade honors English were graphic novels. [/quote]

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