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Product Information
Explores best practices that expert teachers have used to teach comics in various college settings. Organized in six sections, the book begins with basic advice for beginners and moves to explain more advanced ways to use comics in courses. Teachers who have struggled with weak visual literacy skills among students will learn strategies to overcome those problems.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Mcfarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
ISBN-10
0786495146
ISBN-13
9780786495146
eBay Product ID (ePID)
204185832
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
284 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Class, Please Open Your Comics : Essays on Teaching with Graphic Narratives
Publication Year
2015
Subject
Anthologies, General, Comics & Graphic Novels
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Education, Literary Criticism, Comics & Graphic Novels
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
13.6 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2015-011386
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"will be useful for teachers who would like to include graphic narratives in a course but are uncertain how to do it or those who are interested in using these texts more effectively in their classes...recommended"-- Choice ., "will be useful for teachers who would like to include graphic narratives in a course but are uncertain how to do it or those who are interested in using these texts more effectively in their classes...recommended"- Choice .
Age Range
18
Target Audience
Trade
Number of Volumes
1 Vol.
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
371.33
Lc Classification Number
Lb1044.9.C59
Table of Content
Table of Contents Acknowledgments xi Introduction--Graphic Novel Pedagogy: Starting to Learn Together (Matthew L. Miller) 1 Section I. Getting Started: Advice for Beginners Working on Understanding Comics: Introducing the Teacher to the Graphic Novel (Cecile de Rocher) 21 Comics as Literature, Comics as Culture: Teaching Graphic Fiction in the Undergraduate Classroom (Michael Buso) 30 Comics Make Great Prompts: Using Graphic Novels to Teach Writing in College Classrooms (Karen W. Gavigan) 40 Section II. Encountering Challenges: Graphic Novels in Various Settings "Outside the Box": Teaching Graphic Narrative in the Multicultural Community College (David Bahr) 51 Graphic Interventions: Introducing the Graphic Novel into the Classroom in a Small, Rural College Setting (Travis W. Johnson and Jeremy Reed) 62 (Religious) Fun Homes: Teaching the Lesbian Feminist Graphic Novel in a Catholic University (Scott A. Dimovitz) 79 Section III. Writing for Multimodality: Graphic Novels in Contemporary Composition Multimodality 101: Graphic Narratives and Multimodal Composition (Andrew Bourelle) 91 Talismans: Using Comics to Teach Multimodal Writing (Aaron Kashtan) 103 More than Storyboards: Maintaining a Space for Graphic Novels in the Face of Film Adaptation (Jason Salinas) 117 Section IV. Reaching Beyond Limits: Complex Teaching Methods Teaching Alison Bechdel's Fun Home: The Construction of a Modernist Lesbian Graphic Novel (Julia Klimek) 131 Coming to Terms with the Past: Teaching German History with the Graphic Novel (Elizabeth Nijdam) 143 Defending the Graphic Novel: An Introduction to Literary Theory (Michael Demson) 155 Section V. Self-Reflexivity, Intertextuality and Other Scary Terms: Postmodernism in Graphic Novels Old Father, New Artificer: Teaching Alison Bechdel's Fun Home as Postmodern Literature (Jeffrey Roessner and Eithne Amos) 169 Author/Character: Persepolis as a Gateway to Reading Metafictional Novels (Rhonda Knight) 181 Intertextual Journeys: Black Culture, Speculative Fiction and the Past as Text in Jeremy Love's Bayou (Qiana Whitted) 195 Section VI. Looking Ahead: Graphic Novel Education for the Future Doing Justice to the Graphic Novel: Comics as Curriculum in Young Adult Literature (Amanda M. Greenwell) 217 A Mission: Why Should 21st Century Secondary Language Arts Educators Teach Reading and Writing with Graphic Novels? (Katie Monnin) 231 Appendix: Best Practices Assignments 249 History Assignment (Karen W. Gavigan) 249 Panel-to-Panel Drawing Exercise (David Bahr) 250 (Auto)Biographical Short Story (Scott A. Dimovitz) 251 Memoir Assignment (Andrew Bourelle) 251 Comics Analysis (Aaron Kashtan) 254 Composing a Graphic Novel (Jason Salinas) 256 Podcast Assignment (Michael Demson) 257 Theoretical Application (Matthew L. Miller) 258 Exploring Adaptation in Historical Comics (Qiana Whitted) 258 Creative Assignment (Qiana Whitted) 260 Prompts for Close-Reading Graphic Narratives (Amanda M. Greenwell) 260 Teaching the Key Elements of Story (Katie Monnin) 262 About the Contributors 265 Index 269
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