Graphic novel classroom : powerful teaching and learning with images

Graphic Novel 2014

Secondary language arts teacher Maureen Bakis shows how to engage adolescents by using graphic novels to teach 21st-century skills, improve reading comprehension, and promote literacy learning.

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Comic books, strips, etc., in education

Graphic novels in education

Language arts (Secondary)

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Graphic novels

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ISBN:

9781628737349
1628737344

Description:

xvi, 159 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:

Reprint. Originally published: Thousand Oaks, California : Corwin, 2012
Includes bibliographical references (pages 148-155) and index

Contents:

Introduction: Welcome to the graphic novel classroom
Looking at literacy in the graphic novel classroom
Looking at the comics medium : Scott McCloud's Understanding comics
Interpreting images : Shaun Tan's The arrival, Rachel Masilimani's Two kinds of people, Gene Leun Yang's American born Chinese
Looking at the big picture : Will Eisner's A contract with God and A life force
Looking at memoir in the graphic novel classroom
Pictures, perception, and the past : Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis
Leaving a legacy through images : Art Spiegelman's Maus, Elie Weisel's Night, Scott Russell Sanders's "Under the influence"
Looking at superheroes in the graphic novel classroom
A glimpse of the superhero genre : Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight returns
Making the invisible visible : Alan Moore's V for vendetta
Afterword: The value of teaching graphic novels

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2474485

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