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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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Comics help students learn

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Reasons he gives that the comic is permanent and they see the past present and future once they don't understand the topic they can go back and reread the lesson at any speed they want to understand the topic

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That with their generation being visual, a comic at their own pace instead of the ones teachers set for them was easier to grasp.

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In "Comics belong in the classroom", Yang claims that comic books can be very useful for teaching in this generation.

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That in the 1954 Dr. Fredric Wertham says who reads comic books. Will become juvenile delinquency because. His career was studying juvenile delinquents, And he noticed that all of them were reading comics. But Yang says that everyone was reading comics at that time not just juvenile delinquents he was working with.

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"When my students didn't understand something in my comics lecture, they could just reread that passage as quickly or as slowly as they needed."

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He, Dr. Wertham, noticed that most of his clients read comic books but didn't realize that in the 1940s and '50s, almost every kid in America read comics.
Yang thinks this view is wrong because every kid, in that time, was reading comics.

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He uses a Anecdote. "When I was in the fifth grade, I bought an issue of "DC Comics Presents #57" off of a spinner rack at my local bookstore, and that comic book changed my life. The combination of words and pictures did something inside my head that had never been done before, and I immediately fell in love with the medium of comics". This is effective because it starts of his story and shows you how long he has liked comics for

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He states that "This generation of children are visual learners", so it would make sense that something like comic books would be so beneficial to their learning. The comics are what he calls "permanent" in that the students can go back and look at or reread whatever part they need to help them, and that it will always be there.

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Yang gives us the example of Dr. Wertham, who, in the 1950s, released a book stating that comic books caused juvenile delinquency. However, this observation was proved to be inaccurate, as almost all children read comic books during that time.

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Yang convinces the educator to reexamine their practices by. Saying they teach student visual and gives the students remote control to understand what there learning

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"There's no good reason to keep comic books and graphic novels out of K-12 education. They teach visually, they give our students that remote control."
As stated in his speech, comics teach visually and give students the control over information flow that isn't possible otherwise. He continuously advocates for comics and provides information about classes who use comics to prove they can be used in education.

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Credibility/Authority
"A few years into my teaching career, I learned firsthand the educational potential of comics."
"Eventually I became a published cartoonist, writing and drawing comic books for a living."
All of this proves he is educational and knowledgable about the world of comics and teaching.

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He convinces educators to explore the medium of comic books by giving examples to how students can benefit from learning through something they can relate to. He also shows how comic books are "permanent" meaning that the instructions or the help they need is always there to go back to and look at.

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Repetition
He repeats the phrase/idea of "comic books causing juvenile delinquency" to articulate to the reader how absurd and silly this seems to an average person in this day and age, that a comic could cause someone to be a delinquent. I think it's less what exactly he says, but the way he particularly says this every time it comes up. It just shows how foolish he thinks it is to believe it is true.