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| the working place or evening party, it can certainly | | | | connect the personal with power relations in society. |
| strengthen your feminine air. In terms of the | | | | Every student identified with the smuggling scene in |
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| the strap offers us a vivid presentation. | | | | crossing the border via coyotes--paid smugglers. |
| Martha's students clamored for her to read Maus | | | | Teaching Maus has had a positive impact on these |
| aloud to them as they followed the text; as soon as | | | | students' literacy learning. They have told Martha that |
| she stopped they pleaded for her to continue. | | | | this is the first time they have been "turned on" by |
| This confirms Ivey's (1999) observation that reading | | | | history. At the time of this writing, her students are |
| aloud is "a powerful practice for promoting literacy | | | | fully immersed in the story and will probably finish it |
| appreciation and development" and shows "reading is | | | | on their own. Martha reports that all the students |
| pleasurable and worthwhile" (p. 375). This also has | | | | now want their own copy of Maus. |
| been helpful when the students first ran across the | | | | She hopes this will lead to their reading more graphic |
| various sound effects that are featured in this | | | | novels on their own. They also now have the |
| graphic novel: the utterances of ach, snrk, snf, and | | | | background from reading Maus to continue reading |
| tsk all came alive for the students upon hearing | | | | other books on the Holocaust--in fact, Martha plans |
| Martha vocalizing them. | | | | to have them read about Anne Frank next. |
| The teacher read-alouds also highlighted the | | | | Afterward, she will have the students write an essay |
| nonstandard English used by Vladek. These advanced | | | | on how different genres deliver the story of the |
| level ELL students immediately recognized this | | | | Holocaust. |
| non-standard usage, either upon hearing or reading it. | | | | This will be their introduction to literary analysis. The |
| This led to a class discussion on language use and the | | | | students' final project will be to recount their own |
| notions of standard versus nonstandard language. | | | | family narratives using multimodal representations of |
| Although they were amazed that one could actually | | | | text, images, and sound aided by computer software. |
| write broken English in a (graphic) novel, the students | | | | For those ELL students who already read graphic |
| also knew from firsthand knowledge that this | | | | novels on their own (usually in the library because |
| representation was true to reality: several observed | | | | they are expensive to buy), this practice enables |
| "that's how he really talks." | | | | them to meet and interact with native speakers who |
| Indeed, seeing this affirmation of diverse ways of | | | | are avid graphic novel readers. |
| speaking in print cannot help but resonate with ELL | | | | For those who now know an important graphic novel, |
| students' identities when they may be positioned in | | | | this may gain them entry into this social network that |
| schools as others. | | | | transcends ethnic and linguistic divides. Claiming |
| Reading about Art Spiegelman's quest to know more | | | | membership in a community defined by love of these |
| about his family's history in detail, several students | | | | novels can help facilitate the transition of ELL |
| now want to find out about their parents' previous | | | | students into mainstream classes. |
| life experiences--which confirms one aim of the critical | | | | |