Help me give my students four graphic novels for book circle discussion that support a classroom unit on mental health implications of depression, addiction, and social isolation.
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My Project
My students are curious, funny, warm, confused, demanding, messy, smart, obnoxious, sensitive, creative. Which is to say they are teens caught between childhood and maturity, facing a world that is often illegible to them. I would like to help them understand some of the ways mental health shapes them as individuals, while also shaping their larger community.
All students are impacted by mental health issues - depression, isolation, trauma - whether in their own lives or through the lives of their family, friends, classmates, coworkers, or community members.
While these circumstances are common, students can lack language for articulating their experiences around mental health. They may also lack fluency necessary to confidently speak about and act upon their own experiences, as well as those in their community.
By reading graphic memoirs, students will have rich texts that are highly accessible to support their 'narrative transportation.' That's the academic term for what occurs whenever readers enter a world evoked by the narrative because of empathy for the story characters and imagination of the story plot. In turn, this has been shown to have positive effects for attitudes, beliefs, intentions and behaviors.
Further, by reading a range of books in small groups, class becomes a laboratory for practicing conversation in public spaces on difficult topics.
I would like all students to have the opportunity to read about mental health, think deeply about it, and develop competence in discussing whatever challenges they - or the people they care about - face.
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