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[|Teachingcomics.org] - "Teachingcomics.org is the homepage of NACAE (pronounced "nay-say"), the National Association of Comics Art Educators. This site's objective is to be a resource where the growing number of educators in comic art/sequential art can get and share ideas. It is also hoped that educators who work in other disciplines can use comics as a way of furthering their own objectives."

[|Comics in Education] - High school teacher and award winning cartoonist, Gene Yang (author of //American Born Chinese//) discusses the history of graphic novels in education, in addition to the strengths of using them and some great resources. The site includes a [|rubric]!

[|Get Graphic] - "//Get Graphic: The World in Words and Pictures// is a community-wide two year project designed to introduce teens, parents, librarians and teachers to the exciting and extremely popular literary format of graphic novels." The site contains some fabulous resources such as:
 * [|Teaching Strategies for Graphic Novels]
 * [|Graphic Novels in Middle School and High School Classrooms - What and Why?]
 * [|Graphic Novels for Children and Teens]

[|The Comic Book Project] - "The Comic Book Project is an arts-based literacy and learning initiative hosted by the nonprofit Center for Educational Pathways with materials published by Dark Horse Comics. The goal of the project is to help children forge an alternative pathway to literacy by writing, designing, and publishing original comic books."

[|Diamond Bookshelf] - A website "designed to help educators and librarians discover how comics can become a dynamic and positive addition to your classroom or library - and how Diamond can help you bring them to your readers!"

[|The Graphic Classroom] - "The Graphic Classroom is a resource for teachers and librarians to help them stock high quality, educational-worthy, graphic novels and comics in their classroom or school library. I read and review every graphic novel or comic on this blog and give it a rating as to appropriateness for the classroom."

[|Teach Comics Blog] - blog posts and lesson plans

[|Teaching with Comics] - Handouts and activities listed below created by Jeff Sharp, a high school art teacher who has delivered numerous presentations about using comics in the classroom.

[|Teaching Something New] - A graphic novel elective course at Watchung Hills High School in New Jersey.

[|In a Single Bound: A Short Primer on Comics for Educators] by Drego Little (New Horizons for Learning, March 2005)

[|Comics in the Classroom]

[|That Darn Cannon Debate Again] - "The argument over classics or modern literature, and more recently comics as part of the canon, consistently come up."

__Lesson Plan Pages__
NACAE's [|Lesson Plans]and [|Study Guides] NACAE's [|Critique Talking Points] [|Diamond Bookshelf Lesson Plans] [|FirstSecond Books Lesson Plans]

__Individual Lesson Plans__
//__Specific Titles__// [|American Born Chinese] - [[|excerpt]] Teaching History with //American Born Chinese// [|Bone] - Scholastic's //Using Graphic Novels in the Classroom// features lesson for Jeff Smith's Bone [|Castle Waiting] - Literature for Elementary School, grades 4-6 or Comparative Literature for High School [|Deogratias] - Graphic Literature as a Mirror for Current Events for High School [|Hercules] - Looking at Adaptation and Characterization with Marvel's Hercules [|Julius] - Using Julius in Conjunction with Shakespeare's Julius Caesar for High School [|Persepolis] - Gaining Background for the Graphic Novel //Persepolis//: A WebQuest on Iran [|Persepolis] - Pictures Tell the Story: Improving Comprehension with //Persepolis// [|The Plain Janes] - The Comic Book research paper [|Star Wars: Clone Wars] - Writing an Editorial for High School [|Superman] - Analyzing Relationships Among American Literature, History, and Culture for High School or Middle School [|Superman] - Research paper: Is Superman still relevant? [|Transformers: Generation One] - Writing a Persuasive Essay for Middle School or High School [|Ultimate Spider-Man] - Plot Development for Middle School [|Watchmen] - Article on teaching Watchmen - what worked and what didn't!

//__Skills and Topics__// [|Visual Literacy Unit] - a unit that moves from photographs to comics, picture books, ads, and films. [|Teaching Literary Devices] [|Comic Makeovers: Examining Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Media] [|Comic Book Show and Tell] [|Examining Transcendentalism through Popular Culture] [|Factoring with Mr. Yang] - webcomics lessons for algebra students [|Grammarman] - grammar comics for students and teachers [|Teaching Nonfiction Graphic Novels in English Language Arts and Social Studies] [|Building Inference Skills Through Graphic Novels] Hero's Journey - Using [|Runaways]or [|The Trials of Shazam] [|Race in Comics: A Character Study Through the Decades] __[|Creating the Of Mice and Men Graphic Novel]__

//__Handouts from ReadWriteThink__// [|Comic Book Primer] Comic Vocabulary Definitions and Examples: [|Text Containers], [|Layout and Design], and [|Angles]