The powerful teaching and learning with images Bakis, Maureen creator text bibliography cau Thousand Oaks, Calif Corwin Press c2012 2012 monographic eng

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xvi,159 p. Introduction: Welcome to the graphic novel classroom -- Looking at literacy in the graphic novel classroom -- Looking at the comics medium: Teaching Scott McCloud's Understanding comics -- Interpreting images: Teaching Shaun Tan's The arrival, Rachel Masilimani's Two kinds of people, and Gene Leun Yang's American born Chinese -- Looking at the big picture: Teaching Will Eisner's A contract with God and A life force -- Looking at memoir in the graphic novel classroom -- Pictures, perception, and the past: Teaching Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis -- Leaving a legacy through images: Teaching Art Spiegelman's Maus, Elie Weisel's Night, and Scott Russell Sanders' Under the influence -- Looking at superheroes in the graphic novel classroom -- A glimpse of the superhero genre: Teaching Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight returns -- Making the invisible visible: Teaching Alan Moore's V for vendetta -- Afterword: The value of teaching graphic novels in school. Maureen Bakis ; foreword by James Bucky carter. Includes bibliographical references and index. Comic books, strips, etc. in education Graphic novels in education LB1044.9.C59 B35 2012 372.6/044 9781412936842 (pbk. : acid-free paper) 2011034049 DLC 110816 20160527185348.0 306536