Introduction to Comic Life "Interviewing Tips"

(page 4 of my Comic Life project.)
During the time that I was researching the benefits of students and teachers using Comic Life, I subbed at a local high school and there was one of the male tenth grade students reading a graphic novel. This brief experience reinforces one of the values of Comic Life: boys read comics. Not to be gender-biased, but after living in a household with three teenage boys, I am continually on the lookout for what I call "boy books," and both articles and life experience confirm that the comic strip format appeals to males (and females!). Because Comic Life provides an appealing learning medium for all ages and subjects, I look forward to using it in the English classroom both for instruction and for student-based projects.
I developed the Comic Life project, "Interviewing Tips," to use as a springboard for students before they choose their own interviewing tips to illustrate using Comic Life. Experts predict that today's students will change jobs multiple times during their adult working years. Having several interviewing tips firmly established in their minds will help them to make the most of the interviews in which they can expect to engage. Many of my former speech students have reported back to me that the interview unit from speech class proved to be a valuable tool for them as they encountered both college and job interviews. So, using Comic Life to further strengthen this unit in speech or English class provides students with an engaging way to think about these "real life" situations.
As a side note, I decided to include a variety of style formats in my sample project so that students could begin to consider different effects for their own projects.