The graphic novel classroom : powerful teaching and learning with images / Maureen Bakis ; foreword by James Bucky Carter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bakis, Maureen.

Contributor:

James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comic books, strips, etc., in education.

Graphic novels in education.

Physical Description:

xvi, 159 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin, [2012]

Summary:

Bakis, a secondary language arts teacher, demonstrates how middle and high school teachers can use graphic novels to inspire students and improve their reading skills. She shows teachers the process of learning through student commentary, dialogue, work samples, and overviews of graphic novels and their topics, concepts, and skills. Graphic novels discussed include The Arrival, American Born Chinese, A Contract With God, A Life Force, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, V for Vendetta, and Persepolis. She describes ideas for teaching Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics, which emphasizes fun, collaborative, constructive learning activities to teach visual literacy; how to help students break out of the habit of finding one right answer; and how to teach engagement with big picture questions, assessment of good literature, traditional aspects of story, graphic novels with superheroes, memoir writing, and collaboration in writing essays or narratives, including composing with images. A variety of resources are available on the companion website, such as class activities, assessments, and audio and video files. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Introduction: Welcome to the graphic novel classroom

Looking at literacy in the graphic novel classroom

Looking at the comics medium: Teaching Scott McCloud's Understanding comics

Interpreting images: Teaching Shaun Tan's The arrival, Rachel Masilimani's Two kinds of people, and Gene Leun Yang's American born Chinese

Looking at the big picture: Teaching Will Eisner's A contract with God and A life force

Looking at memoir in the graphic novel classroom

Pictures, perception, and the past: Teaching Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis

Leaving a legacy through images: Teaching Art Spiegelman's Maus, Elie Weisel's Night, and Scott Russell Sanders' Under the influence

Looking at superheroes in the graphic novel classroom

A glimpse of the superhero genre: Teaching Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight returns

Making the invisible visible: Teaching Alan Moore's V for vendetta

Afterword: The value of teaching graphic novels in school.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

ISBN:

1412936845

9781412936842

OCLC:

730403640

Publisher Number:

99946407115