Week Twelve - PREVIEW
Graphic Novels practice - Please click the links below for further information on the graphic novels in class. It may be helpful to understand context, inspiration and craft.
Visual Literacy
Reader's Notebooks - Annotation, Analysis and Reflection
Begin understanding graphic novels as literature by reading through an interpretive lens.
Visual Literacy
Reader's Notebooks - Annotation, Analysis and Reflection
Begin understanding graphic novels as literature by reading through an interpretive lens.
Week Eleven-PREVIEW
Graphic Novels - See Week Ten
Titles include:
Bone - Volume One (fantasy/fable) by Jeff Smith
After being run out of Boneville, the three Bone cousins - Fone Bone, Phoney Bone, and Smiley Bone - are separated and lost in a vast, uncharted desert. One by one, they find their way into a deep, forested valley filled with wonderful and terrifying creatures. Eventually, the cousins are reunited at a farmstead run by tough Gran'Ma Ben and her spirited granddaughter, Thorn. But little do the Bones know, there are dark forces conspiring against them and their adventures are only just beginning!
Superman - For All Seasons (fantasy/superhero) written by Jeph Loeb, penciled and inked by Tim Sale
In this coming-of-age tale witness the experiences and adventures that transform a simple country boy into the world's greatest hero. Told through the course of four seasons in the Man of Steel's adolescent life, it illustrates that it is the person, not the powers, that makes Superman a hero.
Kapung Boy by Lat (autobiographical) Kampung Boy is a favorite of millions of readers in Southeast Asia. With masterful economy worthy of Charles Schultz, Lat recounts the life of Mat, a Muslim boy growing up in rural Malaysia in the 1950s: his adventures and mischief-making, fishing trips, religious study, and work on his family's rubber plantation. Meanwhile, the traditional way of life in his village (or kampung) is steadily disappearing, with tin mines and factory jobs gradually replacing family farms and rubber small-holders. When Mat himself leaves for boarding school, he can only hope that his familiar kampung will still be there when he returns. Kampung Boy is hilarious and affectionate, with brilliant, super-expressive artwork that opens a window into a world that has now nearly vanished.
Coraline (fantasy) by Neil Gaiman, adapted and illustrated by P. Craig Russell
When Coraline steps through a door in her family's new house, she finds another house, strangely similar to her own (only better). At first, things seem marvelous. The food is better than at home, and the toy box is filled with fluttering wind-up angels and dinosaur skulls that crawl and rattle their teeth.
But there's another mother there and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go. Coraline will have to fight with all her wit and all the tools she can find if she is to save herself and return to her ordinary life.
Maus : A Survivor's Tale : My Father Bleeds History (biography) by Art Spiegelman is a biography of the author's father, Vladek Spiegelman, a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1992.
Persepolis (memoir) by Marjane Satrapi depicts Satrapi's childhood up to her early adult years in Iran during and after theIslamic Revolution. The film adaptation was nominated for the Academy Award in 2007.
American Born Chinese is by Gene Luen Yang. (fiction) It was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Awards in the category of Young People's Literature. It won the 2007 Michael L. Printz and the 2007 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album: New. It was the first graphic novel recognized by the National Book Foundation. It is a modern fable about a Chinese American boy and how he wants to fit in when he moves to a suburban neighborhood where he is one of only two Chinese students in school.
Pride of Baghdad by Brian K. Vaughn. (historical fiction) It is an allegory. The story is a fictionalized account of the true story of four lions that escaped from the Baghdad Zoo after an American Bombing in 2003. It won the IGN award for best original graphic novel in 2006
Week Ten - PREVIEW
Understanding Comics
1993
224 pages. Black and White with 8-page color section.
A 215-page comic book about comics that explains the inner workings of the medium and examines many aspects of visual communication. Understanding Comics has been translated into 16 languages, excerpted in textbooks, and its ideas applied in other fields such as game design, animation, web development, and interface design.
Winner of the Harvey and Eisner Award, the Alph'art Award at Angoulême, and a New York Times Notable Book for 1994 (mass market edition).
Topics include:
1993
224 pages. Black and White with 8-page color section.
A 215-page comic book about comics that explains the inner workings of the medium and examines many aspects of visual communication. Understanding Comics has been translated into 16 languages, excerpted in textbooks, and its ideas applied in other fields such as game design, animation, web development, and interface design.
Winner of the Harvey and Eisner Award, the Alph'art Award at Angoulême, and a New York Times Notable Book for 1994 (mass market edition).
Topics include:
- Definitions, history, and potential.
- Visual Iconography and its Effects.
- Closure, reader participation between the panels.
- Word-picture dynamics.
- Time and motion.
- The psychology of line styles and color.
- Comics and the artistic process.
Week Nine
- ORP - computer lab
- Trip preparation - Washington's Crossing - Thomas Paine "The American Crisis" ("These are the times that try men's souls")
- Trip preparation - Background information - Chapter 12 of Pearl S. Buck's The Good Earth
- TRIP - LAHASKA
Week Eight
- COUNTDOWN
- ORP - computer lab
- Trip preparation - Washington's Crossing - Thomas Paine "The American Crisis" ("These are the times that try men's souls")
- Trip preparation - Background information - Chapter 12 of Pearl S. Buck's The Good Earth
Week Seven
- ORP - Critical Lens preparation & final
Week Six
- Literary focus - short stories
- Quiz - Short Stories
- Commence ORP assignment-novel must be completed by 11/08
Week Five
"Fairy Tale" by Todd Strasser
Vocabulary skills - Vocabulary in Context
Continue annotation skills
Complete reflections in Reader's Notebook
Vocabulary skills - Vocabulary in Context
Continue annotation skills
Complete reflections in Reader's Notebook
A nice visual explanation of the Hero's Journey
This example uses common movie archetypes to explain the mono-myth structure.
One view of Joseph campbell's Mono-myth structure
This is one interpretation of the Hero's Journey structure. This structure is linear ... if you put the two ends of the line together, you will see the circular pattern from your notes section.
Week Two
1) Continue annotation skills
2) Set up Reader's Notebook
Week One
1) Welcome & procedures
2) Fundamentals & review of annotation skills ("ASiG")
3) Summer reading organizer & assessment
2) Fundamentals & review of annotation skills ("ASiG")
3) Summer reading organizer & assessment