Hacking Graphic Novels: 8 Ways to Teach Higher-Level Thinking with Comics and Visual Storytelling

Author Shveta V. Miller

Publisher Hack Learning

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Shveta V. Miller

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Hack Learning

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2021

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9781948212656

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Overview

Teaching with comics increases engagement, and the ultimate value is in helping your students look with care, see possibilities, consider alternatives, ask nuanced questions, show their thinking, and bravely tell stories they would not have told in any other medium.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Dedication.
Table of Contents.
Introduction: How to Use This Book.
1: Hack 1: Build Investment in Visual Storytelling: Establish the Value of Graphic Stories.
2: Hack 2: Uncover the Elements of Comics: Guide Students’ Discovery of Tools and Devices.
3: Hack 3: Encourage Slow Looking, Committing Closure, and Resisting Closure: Help Students Combine Words and Pictures to Tell Compelling Stories and Communicate Complexity.
4: Hack 4: Think, Learn, and Communicate by Creating Comics: Use Drawing and Visual Storytelling for Deep Thinking.
5: Hack 5: Disrupt the Comics Canon: Expand Concepts About Possibilities.
6: Hack 6: Create with Constraints: Experiment with Creative Limits.
7: Hack 7: Offer a Flexible Process for Creating Graphic Narratives: Model Creation Processes.
8: Hack 8: Connect with the Comics Community: Connect Students to Real-World Graphic Novelists.
Conclusion: Graphic Novels Made Me a Better Teacher.
About the Author.
Acknowledgments.
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