I read Fun Home last week. My personal opinion -yuck. Never in a million years would anyone in the U.S. public school system be allowed to use that book in a middle school (or high school) curriculum. Content, language, graphics - all inappropriate. I even found the literary references (of which there were endless) boring and repetitive. We get it - your life is like The Odyssey. Blah. I didn't care.
I did finally get used to the graphic novel format. I read the entire book in about 2.5 hours. I can see where that format of writing could appeal to young readers. My 10 y.o. son and my 12 y.o. daughter love reading books in that format. They are both very visual learners so I am sure the images tap in to their imagination as they read.
I will, however, never encourage them to read Fun Home. Even if my daughter comes out as a lesbian.
Monday, March 26, 2012
Blog Buddy Response #8
In what ways would your evolving final adolescent literature project impact student learning?
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Blog Buddy Response #6
In what ways can you help scaffold critical thinking through multimodal composition activities?
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