A.D. New Orleans After The Deluge is a pretty impressive multi-part, web-based graphic novel about Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath.

We teach a unit on New Orleans in our ninth-grade mainstream English classes, including advanced English Language Learners. This comic is certainly accessible to ELL’s and enticing to reluctant readers as well.

You can find a ton of resources about New Orleans on my website under….New Orleans, including a very quick VoiceThread slideshow I made after my family’s visit there four months ago..