Graphic Novel Basics
George's Timeline
U.S. Timeline
100
Western graphic novels are read from this direction to this direction as well as top to bottom and front to back.
What is left to right?
100
What year was George born?
1937
100
When did Pearl Harbor happen?
December 7th, 1941
200
What are the boxes that contain each separate image on a page in a graphic novel called?
panels
200
What year did the Takei's go back to LA?
1946
200
What year was the loyalty questionnaire given out?
1943
300
How many panels are on this page?
5
300
When did the Takei's arrive at their first camp?
October 7th, 1942
300
When were the two bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
August 1945
400
How can you tell the difference between a speech bubble and a sound effect bubble?
If it indicates that it is coming out of someone's mouth.
400
When did Mama regain her American citizenship?
November 1945
400
When did George meet Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
1961
500
What genre do graphic novels fall under?
They can be any genre.
500
Who was the first "famous" person George met in the year 1952?
Eleanor Roosevelt
500
Ronald Reagan apologized to Japanese Americans on behalf of the U.S. in 1988 and granted the internees $20,000. When did George actually receive the letter of apology and who signed it?
1991 and George H.W. Bush