Students must complete two appetizers or one main course project from a choice menu board to assess books they have read. For each book, they must select different projects. Appetizer options include analyzing critical graphic novel frames and symbols. The main course allows creating a promotional video, guide on how to read graphic novels with original content, or fan fiction based on characters.

1. Choice Menu Board: Graphic Novel Assessment Projects
Directions - You must complete two appetizers OR one main course for your book assessment. For each book
you are to choose different projects to complete.
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Select five frames from the Graphic Novel that are critical
in communicating the theme of the graphic novel.
Photocopy the frames and include an analysis of how
each frame is integral in articulating the overall theme.
Select 6-10 visual symbols from the Graphic Novel
that are important from the novel. Photocopy or draw
the symbols and include an analysis of how each
symbol is integral and what it represents throughout
the novel.
Create a video trailer of the
graphic novel to promote
among your friends and
fellow readers.
Create a guide booklet or pamphlet “How to Read a
Graphic Novel,” specifically how to read the graphic novel
you read.
Create your own fan fiction novella based on the
characters in the graphic novel.
Write a persuasive essay
in which you address which
was more important in
conveying the story: the
pictures or the words?
Your booklet should include information how to read and
understand the images, text, and layout, and dialogue
balloons. Include a key of information about terms
related to your text and resolve any confusion for others
who pick up the book and understand it.
See the article linked below for more information (but do
not paraphrase or rewrite what has already been written
- your guide book or pamphlet should result in an
original text)
http://tinyurl.com/ln25fse
Wikipedia defines fan fiction as “a broadly defined fan
labor term for stories about characters or settings
written by fans of the original work. Works of fan
fiction are rarely commissioned or authorized by the
original work's owner, creator, or publisher; also, they
are almost never professionally published. Fan fiction
is defined by being both related to its subject's
canonical fictional universe and simultaneously
existing outside the canon of that universe.”[1]
Your essay should result in
a four paragraph, double
spaced (12 point font)
essay. Be sure to include
your reasoning and
evidence from the text.