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Discover the Ultimate Study Guide for MAUS!

This comprehensive resource has everything you'll need for profoundly stimulating lessons on Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer-winning graphic novel, The Complete Maus! The pre-reading handouts, discussion questions, vocabulary lists, and the analytical writing assignment will challenge you to dig beneath the surface of the text and generate profound interpretive insights.

The graphic novel is an aesthetically innovative genre in which meaning is created through the interplay of image and text. How do we read a novel in which two narrative channels — one verbal, the other visual — interact? And how do graphic novels challenge readers to expand the set of interpretive techniques that make up “close reading”?

This Study Guide will help you understand complex questions about literary genres, aesthetic form, social and political history, and the responsibilities that come with representing historical atrocities like the Holocaust.

Here are some highlights from this study guide:

• Pre-Reading Activity: By reading and discussing Art Spiegelman's early 3-page comic, "Maus" (which was published in an underground comics magazine called Funny Animals in 1972). In addition to the 3-page comic itself, this section features a double-sided Image Analysis Worksheet in which you encounter questions that will deepen your engagement with Maus.
• Discussion Question Handouts: Deeply thought-provoking discussion questions. The discussion questions are the beating heart of these lesson plans. Every discussion question is grounded in concrete textual details and challenges students to arrive at lucid interpretive insights!
• Quick Writes: A "quick write" can be used at any time in a class to get students to pause and reflect on the text in writing. Introduce a quick write before you begin a discussion to allow students to collect their thoughts. Or roll one out toward the end of a discussion to let students capture and refine their best ideas.
• Image Analysis Worksheets: Three double-sided worksheets challenge you to analyse 10 visually complex panels from Maus. Students will reflect on how Spiegelman builds meaning through the use of aesthetic strategies such as visual parallels, visual puns, symbolism, strategic ambiguity, the interweaving of past and present, etc.
• Vocabulary Lists: Lists of 8 vocabulary words for every chapter, complete with definitions and sample sentences with the words as they are used in Maus.
• Reading & Vocabulary Quizzes: Daily quizzes with 10 questions on the nightly reading homework plus another 5 questions on the vocabulary words.
• Analytical Writing Assignment: Challenges students to take their interpretations one step further by writing an analytical paper on Art Spiegelman's complex graphic novel.

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