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We Need a (8-12 Yr Old) Ongoing Diverse Graphic Novels Book Club
Intro to Graphic Memoir - Single Session
This course, recently taught at an acclaimed California university, will introduce your teen to the exciting literary format of the illustrated memoir: the perfect blend of emotional creative non-fiction and evocative artistic expression.
Class experience
US Grade 9 - 12
Beginner Level
In this single-session course, your teen will get to explore the exciting genre of graphic memoir. This intensive workshop meeting will involve a mix of discussion and lecture to gain the skills for graphic memoir understanding. High value is placed upon learner participation and thoughtful interpretation of ideas presented. However, the instructor understands and appreciates different approaches to participation, and will give every student the opportunity to participate at their level....
Learners will strive to gain baseline close reading skills and apply them to simple literary analysis of the graphic memoir genre. Furthermore, they will begin to grasp concepts on how both description and visual form are used to express an author’s internal concepts of representation and the larger applications to the genre. Students will be exposed to a basic understanding of comic art and close reading skills so that these understandings can be later applied to the texts they read outside of the course.
Dee Richards is a two-time award winning memoirist, with three anthology publications of short-form creative non-fiction. As a honors graduate of the University of California, Irvine's prestigious English department, Dee has a great wealth of knowledge in the various forms, movements, and genres of literature. While in school, Dee brought her original course concept exploring graphic memoirs to her fellow undergraduate students. Immediately following graduation, Dee taught workshops on memoir writing strategies through her local library circuit. Additionally, Dee is a current Master of Fine Arts candidate in the genre of Creative Non-Fiction. Dee owns over 50 graphic novels, and loves sharing her passion for graphic memoir with anyone who wants to learn!
Recommended: Minor text analysis skills, typical of U.S. K-12 schooling. Any experience with graphic form literature is preferred, but not required.
Any note-taking form: - Pen/Pencil - Paper - Notetaking App, or similar Previous reading of the text covered in the course is not required, but may be encouraged.
As the selected text to cover will be decided based on age and interest, this is a list of possible texts: "That Can Be Arranged" - written and illustrated by Huda Fahmy "Speak" - written by Laurie Halse Anderson, illustrated by Emily Carroll "El Deafo" - written and illustrated by Cece Bell "Solutions and Other Problems" - written and illustrated by Allie Brosh "Other Boys" - written and illustrated by Damian Alexander As the instructor, I will endeavor to keep the review of the text to a text analysis framework only. The larger implications and themes of the work may not be discussed, but may include topics of teenage gender and sexual identity, emotional disorder, mental disorder, physical difference, cultural difference, and more. However, not all topics will be discussed, and if any text causes specific concern, I encourage you to reach out.
A list of the text(s) discussed in the course will be emailed upon completion.
Hello, I'm Dee! I'm a parent of two school-aged children, a writer, and a writing educator in SoCal. I am an honors graduate of the University of California, Irvine, and starting my Master's degree in Creative Writing later this year. I have eight...
Group Class
$15
per classMeets once
45 min
Live video meetings
Ages: 13-18
1-15 learners per class
