The graphic novel classroom
Subtitle: powerful teaching and learning with images
By: Maureen Bakis ; foreword by James Bucky carter
Publisher: Corwin Press; Corwin
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9781412936842
Subjects: Graphic novels in education; Comic books, strips, etc., in education
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Welcome to the graphic novel classroom; title: Looking at literacy in the graphic novel classroom; title: Looking at the comics medium: Teaching Scott McCloud's Understanding comics; title: Interpreting images: Teaching Shaun Tan's The arrival, Rachel Masilimani's Two kinds of people, and Gene Leun Yang's American born Chinese; title: Looking at the big picture: Teaching Will Eisner's A contract with God and A life force; title: Looking at memoir in the graphic novel classroom; title: Pictures, perception, and the past: Teaching Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis; title: Leaving a legacy through images: Teaching Art Spiegelman's Maus, Elie Weisel's Night, and Scott Russell Sanders' Under the influence; title: Looking at superheroes in the graphic novel classroom; title: A glimpse of the superhero genre: Teaching Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight returns; title: Making the invisible visible: Teaching Alan Moore's V for vendetta; title: Afterword: The value of teaching graphic novels in school.