From the Editor
Lesson plans, grading papers, portfolios, resumes, job interviews: the semester is in full swing and the stress is pretty tense, but it is good. Teaching is exactly what I’d hoped it would be and the rewards are tremendous and fulfilling.
I am reading Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief as our daily read-aloud and the students are enthralled. I continue to refer back to the graphic novel adaptations of Greek mythology when we process what we read and my fourth graders are responding with interest and intrigue. On Thursday, a knot of 6 students pulled out the graphic novel about Perseus and did a picture walk. They want to know more and be able to predict what might happen. It’s exciting to see them so engaged in the process of reading.
Ah well, off to the list for the week, and it is a heavy dose of comic medicine:
Lesson plans, grading papers, portfolios, resumes, job interviews: the semester is in full swing and the stress is pretty tense, but it is good. Teaching is exactly what I’d hoped it would be and the rewards are tremendous and fulfilling.
I am reading Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief as our daily read-aloud and the students are enthralled. I continue to refer back to the graphic novel adaptations of Greek mythology when we process what we read and my fourth graders are responding with interest and intrigue. On Thursday, a knot of 6 students pulled out the graphic novel about Perseus and did a picture walk. They want to know more and be able to predict what might happen. It’s exciting to see them so engaged in the process of reading.
Ah well, off to the list for the week, and it is a heavy dose of comic medicine:
- After the Challenger: A Story of the Space Shuttle Disaster
- Billy Blaster: Ice Caves of Pluto
- Billy Blaster: Mind Thief
- Cartoon Nation: Liberty
- Cartoon Nation: Women’s Right to Vote
- Digestive System with Max Axiom
- Dragon Frog
- Eek & Ack vs the Wolfman
- Fire in the Sky: A Tale of the Hindenburg Explosion
- G.I. Joe: Origins #1
- Jason and the Golden Fleece
- Marvel Adventures Avengers #33
- My First Graphic Novel: The End Zone
- My First Graphic Novel: Goalkeeper Goof
- Perseus and Medusa
- Powerful World of Energy with Max Axiom
- Rapunzel
- Recon Academy: Nuclear Distraction
- Recon Academy: Shadow Cell Scan
- Solid Truth about States of Matter with Max Axiom
- Three Little Pigs
- Tiny Titans #13
- Understanding Viruses with Max Axiom
- Unite or Die: How Thirteen States Became a Nation
- Zinc Alloy vs Frankenstein
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