The Graphic Novel Classroom : POWerful Teaching and Learning With Images.

A secret weapon for engaging adolescents Could you use a superhero to teach reading, writing, critical thinking, and problem-solving? While seeking the answer, secondary language arts teacher Maureen Bakis discovered a powerful pedagogy that teaches those skills and more. The amazingly successful re...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Bakis, Maureen M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 2011.
Table of Contents:
  • Halftitle; Dedication; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Classroom Teaching Tools on the Companion Website; Foreword; Preface; About the Author; Introduction: Welcome to the Graphic Novel Classroom; Part I Looking at Literacy in the Graphic Novel Classroom; 1 Looking at the Comics Medium; 2 Interpreting Images; 3 Looking at the Big Picture; Part II Looking at Memoir in the Graphic Novel Classroom; 4 Pictures, Perception, and the Past; 5 Leaving a Legacy Through Images; Part III Looking at Superheroes in the Graphic Novel Classroom; 6 A Glimpse of the Superhero Genre.
  • 7 Making the Invisible VisibleAfterword: The Value of Teaching Graphic Novels; Resources; References and Further Reading; Index; Advertisement.