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1 online resource (273 pages) |
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Cover; Dedication; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Classroom Teaching Tools on the Companion Website; Foreword; James Bucky Carter; Preface; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Introduction: Welcome to the Graphic Novel Classroom; Part I. Looking at Literacy in the Graphic Novel Classroom; Chapter 1. Looking at the Comics Medium:; Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics; Chapter 2. Interpreting Images:; Shaun Tan's The Arrival; Rachel Masilimani's Two Kinds of People; Gene Leun Yang's American Born Chinese; Chapter 3. Looking at the Big Picture |
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Will Eisner's A Contract With God and A Life ForcePart II. Looking at Memoir in the Graphic Novel Classroom; Chapter 4. Pictures, Perception, and the Past:; Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis; Chapter 5. Leaving a Legacy Through Images:; Art Spiegelman's Maus; Elie Wiesel's Night; Scott Russell Sanders's "Under the Influence"; Part III. Looking at Superheroes in the Graphic Novel Classroom; Chapter 6. A Glimpse of the Superhero Genre:; Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns; Chapter 7. Making the Invisible Visible:; Alan Moore's V for Vendetta |
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Afterword: The Value of Teaching Graphic NovelsResources; References and Further Reading; Index |
| Summary |
Every teacher knows that keeping adolescents interested in learning can be challenging?The Graphic Novel Classroom overcomes that challenge. In these pages, you will learn how to create your own graphic novel in order to inspire students and make them love reading. Create your own superhero to teach reading, writing, critical thinking, and problem solving!Secondary language arts teacher Maureen Bakis discovered this powerful pedagogy in her own search to engage her students. Amazingly successful results encouraged Bakis to provide this learning tool to other middle and high |
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Print version record |
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Comic books, strips, etc., in education.
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Graphic novels in education.
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EDUCATION -- Elementary.
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Comic books, strips, etc., in education
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Graphic novels in education
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781629140889 |
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1629140880 |
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