Jessica Gallagher

Female

San Antonio, TX

United States

Profile Information:

What is your connection to education?
MS / Junior High School Teacher
What subjects do you teach / specialize in?
English
What 5 essential pop culture artifacts (CDs, DVDs, Books, Images, Toys, etc.) would you have on your desert island?
iPhone, iPod, Books, People Magazine and TV seasons on DVD

Comment Wall:

  • Ryan Goble

    Howdy Jessica!

    Great to have you here!

    Since you rock English consider joining some of the other ELA groups:
    Popular Music
    World Literature
    American Literature
    British Lit (sans Shakespeare)
    Making Shakespeare Pop
    Poets and Writers
    Adolescent Literature
    Graphic Novels
    New Modern Languages & ELL
    Digital Storytelling
    New Media & Technology
    Media Education/Literacy group
    The News: Teaching With and About
    Magazines 
    and the new Making Drama POP! group

    At the top of the group there is a little + sign similar this one in the Middle School group that says "+Join Group X." Easy stuff.

    Good Vibes,

    Ryan:)

  • Joan Axthelm

    HI Jessica -

    I saw your post from awhile ago asking about a short superhero graphic novel and thought I would contribute an idea, if you are still looking. 

    I recently used The Amazing Life of Onion Jack by Joel Priddy with my middle school students and I think it would be totally appropriate for 9th graders, too.  The story is short - 10 pages - and requires a lot of reading skills: inference, knowledge of allusion to other superhero stories, plot structure, action = character, and irony - to name a few. At the same time, the story is simple and fun.

    The story can be found in the 2006 edition of America’s Best Comics, edited by Harvey Pekar.

    I hope this is helpful.

    Yours,

    Joan

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