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Recommended Comics for Schools: Harvey Pekar’s Cleveland, The Adventures of Venus, Rough Justice
Encourage students to analyze panels closely to determine how the visuals work with the text. Ask: Where do they clarify information? Where do they expand upon it? Where do they represent a parallel track of information?
Some Major No-No’s for Student Critics… and All Critics, Really
"Certainly, some adult humans will be shocked to learn that they cannot simply pick up a comic book and hurl it at the nearest child." -Dylan Meconis
Recommended Comics for Schools: Annie Sullivan, Mystery Boxes, Anna & Froga
Skills and teaching topics covered in this post include visual literacy, nonfiction, genre, and transliteracy...
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A Lesson about Text and Toys from a Franchise No One Likes
Why do we assign greater respect to media products based on games versus toys?
A Question for Pop Culture Fandom: Strong Women… or Violent Women?
It’s the asking of tricky questions, not the providing of pat, politically-correct answers, that builds lifelong habits of mind in students.
Why Being ‘Anti-Sports’ is Anti-Intellectual
The range of literacies employed by today's diehard sports fans is staggering.
Guest Post by Ryan Goble… Uncommon Literacies: Teaching ‘This American Life’ (2)
If our job as educators is to engage the hearts and minds of our students I can think of no better pop cultural text than "This American Life" to uncover the silly, strange, and sublime states of the human condition with our students.
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