The graphic novel classroom : powerful teaching and learning with images

206 Pages·2014·4.84 MB·English

by  Maureen Bakis

For Jack, Shea, Regan, and Riley
“It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with
we cease to see.”
—Anaïs Nin

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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:
Will Eisner’s A Contract With God and A Life Force
PART 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
Afterword: The Value of Teaching Graphic Novels
Resources
References and Further Reading
Index
Additional materials and resources related to The Graphic Novel
Classroom can be found on the companion website.
www.corwin.com/graphicnovelclassroom
List of Classroom Teaching Tools on the
Companion Website
Chapter 1 Will Eisner’s Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative Assessment Scott McCloud’s
Understanding Comics Study Guide Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics Chapter
Three Class Activity Understanding Comics Concepts Assessment: Chris Ware’s
“Unmasked”
Chapter 3 Discussion Prompts for Will Eisner’s “A Contract with God”
Chapter 4 Critical Media Literacy Film Response Questions
Supplementary Reading Activity: “Veiled Threat”
Persepolis Discussion & Writing Prompts Persepolis: The Story of a Return Test
Persepolis Online Discussion Forum Topics Persepolis Analytical Paragraph Writing
Quiz Writing Lesson: Model Memoir (Mary Karr)
Writing Lesson: Memoir
Writing Lesson: Sensory Imagery Worksheet
Memoir
Composition
Projects
Chapter 5 Maus I: My Father Bleeds History Quizzes Maus II: And Here My Troubles Began
Group Reading Activities Letter to the Author Assignment
Chapter 6 Danny Fingeroth and Reader Response Superheroes Prompts Discussion and Writing
Prompts for Batman