This week I attempted to teach Macbeth through a comic book. I thought it would be good to give the students a visual and something different than just reading the plain ole text. In my mind I was thinking the pictures would help them understand what is happening in the play. Boy was I wrong. All I heard was "this is stupid," "why are we doing this," and "can't we just read from the book?" There were a couple of quirky kids who really enjoyed the comic book but overall the rest of the class was resistant which totally surprised me. In addition, to that students were interpreting the scenes differently because of the pictures. Although, I'm unsure of how they came up with some scenarios.
With this in mind I did some serious reflecting for my class on Wednesday. I had two different versions of Macbeth comic books which I intended to bring in separately and then compare and contrast them. The compare and contrast portion would be in preparation for a final paper comparing Macbeth to a world political leader. However, I have decided for the sake of learning in this class to scratch my comic book series. Perhaps in a different class it would have been more successful but overall this teaching method did not work for this specific class. So it's back to the drawing board for me.
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