Graphic Narratives as Teaching Tools

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 25.03.12

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rational
  3. Content Objective
  4. Classroom Strategies
  5. Classroom Activities
  6. Appendix on Implementing District Standards
  7. Reference:

Dine Alchini Ba’hani through Graphical Novel Storytelling: Clan Edition

Garrick Yazzie

Published September 2025

Tools for this Unit:

Reference:

https://navajopeople.org/blog/ke-dine-navajo-kinship-system/

Abate, Michelle Ann, and Gwen Athene Tarbox. Graphic novels for children and young adults: a collection of critical essays. Children's literature association series. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2017

Duncan, Randy, and Matthew J. Smith. The power of comics: history, form and culture. New York: Continuum, 2009

Ewing, R. J. (2012). Native american storytelling: Oral tradition as a cultural component of learning (Order No. 3507496). Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global; ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global Closed Collection. (1015394186). Retrieved from https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/native-american-storytelling-oral-tradition-as/docview/1015394186/se-2

Fullerton, S. (2021). Indigenous Education: Land as Text. BU Journal of Graduate Studies in Education, 13(2), 43.

Novak, R.J. (2014). Teaching Graphic Novels in the Classroom: Building Literacy and Comprehension (Grades 7-12) (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003238669

Wertham, Fredric. Seduction of the innocent. New York: Rinehart, 1954

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