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What claims is Gene Luen Yang making about comic books in schools?

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What reasons does Yang give for this/these claims?

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What opposite points of view does Yang give to his claim?  Why does he think that those views are less correct than what he has observed?

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How does Yang convince educators to reexamine their practices when it comes to comics and graphic novels?

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Which rhetorical techniques does Yang use that are the most effective?  Why do you think so?  Click the link to the graphic organizer for the list of rhetorical techniques.

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He is claiming that they help children learn because they can see a visual of what they are learning. He also claims that it helps the students because they are able to control how slow or how fast that they read the information, so it is easier to comprehend than watching a video.

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The reasoning he gives is that when he was teaching in school, his students would ask him to make more of these comic because they genuinely enjoyed learning from them.

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His claim is that when using comic books in an education way it gives children a visual representation of what they are learning along with words.That they can read it as fast or as slow as they need to process the information

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He talks about how in 1954 Dr. Wertham wrote a book about how most juveniles read comic books and that they cause juvenile delinquencies, but he failed to realize that most kids were reading comic books back then so his studies were not accurate.

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Teachers are realizing that comic books are a great way for kids to be able to analyze and understand the text that they are given.

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The reasoning is that when he gave his students the comic they enjoyed and more and learned from them more then when gave a video or when he was speaking to them out loud.They enjoyed them and it also let them learn at their own pace

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He states that comics helps student get more visual ideas and thoughts of what they are reading. Along with putting words into pictures

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His claim is that using comic booksin class is another way for children to learn. Its almost like visual learning because you are reading but also viewing images which can open ones creativity. They would be able to look at the images and really grasp what is happening as they read.

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Yang uses an anecdote about his time teaching and how the children enjoyed the comics to persuade the readers and listeners on why comics should be allowed in the classroom. This is the most effective technique used because the people listening are more likely to believe him because his personal stories show that having comics in the class helped the students learn.

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He talks about Dr.Wertham who wrote a book about how comics where making kids juvenile delinquents but he was only working with juvenile delinquents and only saw what they were reading but every kids was reading comics at the time so his studies where not accurate because if everyone was reading them that would mean every kid was a juvenile delinquent when they were not..

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The reasoning is that He had given his students comics and they had a better understanding of what they were learning, rather than when he would talk to the class. This also gives the students a eas way to work at their own pace and not have to worry about how early they finish.

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He claims that comic books are an effective educational tool that aid students in visually comprehending what is being taught. As Yang said himself, the past, present, and future are all beside each other on a page.

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He convinces the fact they give a visual to learning that makes it easier for kids to learn what they are doing by being able to understand and read at their own pace.

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He uses repetition when he talks about comics he keeps mentioning the word and that they are helpful and that they can be used in more ways than one.He keeps bringing this up over and over again

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Yang experimented with multiple teaching methods, and he found that his students responded positively to comic books. They were able to grasp the information in a way they couldn't with Yang's videos or in-person teaching.

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he claims that comic book are a great tool for students to learn visually

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He goes on about Dr. Wertham who had wrote a book on how comics turned kids into delinquents. Dr Wertham only really worked with juvenile delinquents so it might have been hard to notice that other kids were reading them as well. He explains that Dr. Wertham's studies are inacurrate because almost every kid was reading them and that not all kids were delinquents.

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Yang is claiming that comic books if used in an educational way can be very beneficial and can help children understand the ideas of the text through the visual aspect of the comic books

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The reason is that when he taught his kids really enjoyed the comic books, they liked to see the story unfold.

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He states that comics can give a good representation of visual learning for students who learn that way, and it is one of the most easiest ways for students to understand materials

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He told about a time when kids who read comic books where juvenile delinquents and that might have been why people might not have liked them.

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He mentions a Dr. Wertham, who was an American psychiatrist that specialized in child psychology. Wertham was a skilled doctor in his time, but he failed to recognize the false correlation between comic books and juvenile delinquency. In truth, they were not correlated at all.

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Teachers are starting to realize that books can be difficult for some kids to read, and comic books are a great tool to help them visualize the story.

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He uses ancedote when he tells the crowd about Dr. Wertham and his experience with kids who he thought turned into juvenile delinquents because they read comic books.

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Yang's reasoning for his claim is that he had noticed that the kids were able to learn more with the comic books. They were able to understand the ideas of the text more than a normal book.

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Yang urges teachers to recognize the benefits of using comic books in the classroom. He explained that it allows the students to analyze and absorb information at increased rate.

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The author used Pathos in the story when he told the reader about how he used to teach for several years. He told the readers the he tried to bring comic books into his classroom when he first started teaching. He also stated that he thought teaching his students with comic books would hopefully make him the "cool teacher"

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Because he wants more students to enjoy reading, after many of his gave him feedback saying they enjoyed reading comics

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His claim throughout the piece was that visual and textual media mesh together really well in an educational format.

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He mentions Dr. Werthham who in 1954 wrote  book about how comics made children become delinquents, but only because he was working with juvenile delinquents, and only studied what they were reading, and not what others were

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He convinces the reader that comics are a great and effective way for visual learners to better interoperate what they are actually reading

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Yang's support for his claim is that with comic books and visual media the kids in his class were interpreting the information better, compared to a normal book.

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Yang talks about how in 1954 Dr. Wertham wrote a book on how he thought that only juveniles were reading comic books and how he though that they were a negative form of popular literature. Which was in fact not true and not nearly as much juveniles were reading comic books.

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The majority of Yang's speech is anecdotal. He tells of what occurred while he was still trying to determine what the best method of teaching is.

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He begins to talk about Dr. Wertham, a psychiatrist in 1954 who wrote a book on how kids who read comic books, would become delinquents. This gave the comics a bad reputation and lead to more study's proving that Wertham's statements were wrong.

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Yang and other teachers are starting to understand that comic books are a really good way to learn. Comic books really do help kids learn visually.

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He argues that having visuals to collide with the text makes comic books a valid way to learn.

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I think he used creditably because he was a teacher and he understands how most students learn and he also did experiments with learning and he found out that comic books are a good way of learning.

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Yang uses anecdote, he does this by talking about Wertham and his research, this evidence itself is enough to persuade the reader, this evidence being Werthams research was untrue.

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Yang is claiming that even though comic books aren't generally a form of teaching, they can prove to be useful to help students to understand certain material.

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Yang's reasoning for his claim came from when he personally instituted comics into his class. Yang states "It was like I was giving them a remote control over the information".

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Yang mentions a psychologist who believes comic books cause juvenile delinquency. Yang goes on to say "He was wrong. Now, Dr. Wertham was actually a pretty decent guy. He spent most of his career working with juvenile delinquents, and in his work he noticed that most of his clients read comic books. What Dr. Wertham failed to realize was in the 1940s and '50s, almost every kid in America read comic books".

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Yang convinces educators to reexamine their practices by reinstating that comics give students more control over the speed that they learn. He also states that the educational potential of comics is waiting to be tapped.

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The rhetorical technique that Yang used that was most effective was an anecdote. Throughout the story, he referenced the time he taught Algebra 2 and tried using comics in his classroom for the first time. This technique was most effective because he had first-hand experience with using comics as a tool.

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His title is his claim, "Comic Books Belong in The Classroom"  He shares his experience in a positive light and says that he believes "that comic book changed my life." when talking about the first comic book he ever read.

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A direct quote as to one of the reasons why he believes they belong in the classroom is  "comics are what I call permanent. In a comic, past, present and future all sit side by side on the same page." This means that the rate of information flow is firmly in the hands of the reader. "