Building literacy connections with graphic novels
Subtitle: page by page, panel by panel
By: edited by James Bucky Carter.
Contributors: Carter, James Bucky, 1977-
Publisher: National Council of Teachers of English
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Urbana, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780814103920
Subjects: Language arts; Graphic novels -- History and criticism; Literacy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: carving a niche : graphic novels in the English language arts classroom / James Bucky Carter; title: Altering English : re-examining the whole class novel and making room for graphic novels and more / Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey; title: Showing and telling history through family stories in Persepolis and young adult literature / Marla Harris; title: Are there any Hester Prynnes in our world today? pairing the amazing "true" story of a teenage single mom with the scarlet letter / James Bucky Carter; title: Visualizing Beowulf : old English gets graphic / J. D. Schraffenberger, L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, James Barrie, and pop gun war : teaching Dalrymple's graphic novel in the context of classics / Randall Clark; title: Abandon every fear, ye that enter : the X-men journey through Dante's Inferno / Don Leibold; title: A multimodal approach to addressing antisemitism : Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist and Will Eisner's Fagin the Jew / Allen Webb and Brandon Guisgand; title: Using graphic novels, anime, and the Internet in an urban high school / Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey; title: Ultimate spider-man and student-generated classics : using graphic novels and comics to produce authentic voice and detailed, authentic texts / James Bucky Carter; title: Appendix: "twenty plus" additional graphic novels for your English language arts.