International School Teacher with 22 years experience

Andrea Dalland, M.Ed, MLS

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This isn't your average book club! In this class, readers will dive into graphic novels and learn about elements of these books that will help to improve their comprehension and enjoyment of ANY graphic novel they read! ESL friendly!

If you love graphic novels, this is the class for you! You can bring any graphic novel you like as we learn about different elements of text and illustrations that will help improve your understanding and enjoyment of your favorite books!

We'll learn the difference between a graphic novel and a comic book, and take a look at some of the many genres (realistic fiction, historical fiction, non-fiction, biography, etc.) that can be found in graphic novel format. 

What is a Graphic Novel? 

We will learn some of the important elements of what is seen on the page, including panels, frames, gutters, foreground, background, and graphic weight.

The Pages

Today's focus will be on characters and what we can learn about them from the illustrations and the text. We'll examine facial expressions, hands and feet, body language, and the use of enamata to communicate nonverbal elements. 

The Characters

We will take a close look at the importance of setting; how it is introduced, when it's important and when it's not, how authors let us know it has changed, the role of panel size, and how illustrators communicate concepts of time. 

The Setting

For the last class, our focus will be on the written text itself, the different types of print that are used and what they mean (bold, italics, etc), captions, speech balloons, asterisks and onomatopoeia. 

The Text

Graphic Novels 101 Summer Camp

Arts

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Daniel Grissom's Curious Together

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1:1 Private Class: Help Make Comic Books & Graphic Novels. Create, Edit, Publish

Raymond Mullikin (Raytoons Comics)

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Writing and Drawing Comics and Graphic Novels From Start to Finish | Art Class

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Creating Comics Level 2 (Ages 7-10): Weekly Workshop

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Paul Kopulos, MFA

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The Comic Studio

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Vocabulary Masters: An Etymology Class for Word Lovers

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Word Builders: Spelling and Reading Skills Through Morphology; Dyslexia Friendly

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Introduction to Structured Word Inquiry (Spelling)

Introduction to Structured Word Inquiry (Spelling) Summer Camp

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Vocabulary Development Through Word Building

This class will help students improve their comprehension by learning the difference between "thick" and "thin" questions that readers can ask about a text. Students will leave with a skill they can immediately apply to any text they read!

Thick and Thin: Asking Questions to Improve Reading Comprehension

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1:1 Spelling and Reading With Structured Word Inquiry; Dyslexia Friendly

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Photoshop 101 Summer Boot Camp

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World Languages

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Graphic Novels 101 Summer Camp

Andrea Dalland, M.Ed, MLS

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