Graphic Novels in High School and Middle School Classrooms
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- ISBN 9781475828351
- Weight: 236g
- Dimensions: 150 x 231mm
- Publication Date: 05 Jul 2017
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The ultimate guide for using graphic novels in any middle school or high school classroom, this book considers how the graphic novel format can support critical thinking and help reach disciplinary goals in history, English language arts, science, math, fine arts, and other subjects. Using specific graphic novels as examples, this book considers how to help students read, question, and write about both fiction and non-fiction. Whether teachers are new to graphic novels or have been working with them for years, this book will help improve instruction.
Chapters ell us how to teach with graphic novels, focusing on how disciplinary literacy can inform graphic novel instruction; how readers should consider text, image, and the intersection of the two when reading a graphic novel; and how graphic novels can encourage critical response and interdisciplinary instruction. Throughout the book, the authors illustrate important teaching concepts with examples from recent graphic novels. Appendices offer recommendations of graphic novels ideal for different disciplines. Teachers who are serious about using graphic novels effectively in the classroom will find this book invaluable.
William Boerman-Cornell studies how graphic novels can best be used in the classroom and the intersection of graphic novels and disciplinary literacy. After teaching high school English for a decade, he is now a professor of Education.
Jung Kim is a former high school English teacher and literacy coach and is now a teacher-educator. She studies popular culture and out-of-school literacies, as well as Asian American teacher identities.
Michael Manderino studies the intersections between digital and disciplinary literacies He is a former high school history teacher and literacy coach who works closely with schools to support disciplinary literacies instruction.
