Lesson 14: Persepolis - Art, Literature or

Both??L.O. exploring the assets of the graphic novel and practicing essay

writing

True or False?Read the statements made in these images (also see final page of the booklet).

Do you agree?

Write down your thoughts (properly PEA formulated, using Persepolis as your evidence) on these issues.

Brainstorm your ideas on the following:

What is Art?What makes a text ‘quality literature’?

What do you think of Persepolis?What techniques does Satrapi use?

What techniques are used in art?And in Literature?

Do you agree?Read the statement made in this panel. Do you think this is true?

Where does Marjane Satrapi’s Graphic Novel fit? Biography? Historical fiction? Coming of Age? Realism? All of these?

Write your essay• In the coming week your homework will be to write an essay on Persepolis

using the essay question below (and the notes your took while brainstorming the matters on the previous slides).• To enhance your understanding of the novel & give you an even better set of

revision notes, we will be listening to the group lectures coming week as well. The lesson after the last lecture, your essay is due.• ESSAY QUESTION: Can comics be used to create truly great works of

literature? Use Persepolis to prove your answer.

Group lectures Persepolis (reminder) topics:

I. The characters: who, what, why & how represented in the graphic novel?

II. The plot: what happens and how is this significant?

III. The themes & message: what is she telling us, how, why and where exactly?

IV. The use of language in the text (think outside the box with a graphic novel, use the booklet!) Type of language used to get message across / Language used to characterise / Language used to create the setting & Effect of language used?