Peter Gutierrez
Male
Montclair, NJ
United States
Profile Information:
- What is your connection to education?
- Elementary Teacher, MS / Junior High School Teacher, High School Teacher, Teacher Coach, Author
- What subjects do you teach / specialize in?
- Curriculum Development, PD, and Consulting for: ELA/Social Studies/Media Literacy/Fine Arts
- School, business or institutional affiliation
- Screen Education, School Library Journal, Teachers College Press, Corwin Press, etc.
- Website, Blog, Wiki, Twitter, or Facebook URL(s)
- @Peter_Gutierrez, http://blogs.slj.com/connect-the-pop/ , http://www.linkedin.com/in/petergutierrez
- What 5 essential pop culture artifacts (CDs, DVDs, Books, Images, Toys, etc.) would you have on your desert island?
- Morris Goes to School, Uncanny X-Men #111-113, Sullivan's Travels, Charlie Parker with Strings, Flannery O'Connor: Collected Works
katie monnin
also, LOVE what you posted about NY ComicCon. hope to be involved with more of this stuff in the future. :) katie
Jan 19, 2009
Caitlin Plovnick
Jan 20, 2009
John C. Weaver
I'm teaching Watchmen to my senior British Literature students in a few weeks. It's actually becoming fairly exciting, because not only are some students not in my class signing out the book, but a couple of teachers have and are spontaneously beginning book clubs with some of the students.
My problem in developing the unit is this: I can deal with the themes, the repetitions and the oppositions really well--since that is basic English major stuff--but I am less confident dealing with the artwork, except to point to pictures that underscore the themes. I've been rereading McCloud's Understanding Comics, and that helps a little bit. Do you know other resources that a hapless English teacher might use to deal with comic artwork?
I put a similar comment on Katie Monnin's board.
By the way, thanks for inviting me. This site looks interesting.
John
Jan 21, 2009