Each of these lessons are based on a topic such as OUTSIDER art, the METAVERSE, the use of comics in the classroom and so on..
In this class we will do just that we'll read about, discuss and watch a Ted talk on comics as educational aids.
Class duration – Two one and a half hour sessions \ Number of students – 1 – 3 maximum
The majority of corrections are given in real time during the online class with notes taken and written in the CHAT option in Microsoft teams, google MEET or skype.
OBJECTIVES -
PRONUNCIATION -
LISTENING - overall understanding and pronunciation.
GRAMMAR - Remind vs Remember
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What is a comic exactly ?
First of all what is the difference between a comic and a graphic novel? There are many answers to this on the internet but simply put a comic is issue of a story, like an episode in Netflix and a graphic novel is a whole season of a story. Comics vary massively from super heroes to tragic emotional outpourings or poetic descriptive images and passages sometimes becoming master pieces. One of the most prolific and impacting illustrators for me personally would be the American Chris Weir.
Jimmy Corrigan - The smartest kid on earth \ Chris Weir.
I in an introductory note in 'An anthology of graphic fiction' Ivan Brunetti describes the graphic novel or comic as a person now comfortably in it's thirties after passing through it's adolescence in the 1920's and evolving from comic strips to multi-layered complexities of longer stories and into the field of the existential state of the human condition.
The styles and variety of graphic novels now have made them a new form of expression or more so an evolved form of an earlier type of story telling. The visual layout helps to convey something that sometimes would simply take too many words and helps the reader connect with what the writer and illustrator and trying to say.
The caption above by John Hankiewicz - 'A paragraph by Saul Bellow (1915 - 2005) Is prose really and is beautifully married with the visual narrative. In each caption the direction of the felt lines increases an sense of motion around the figures in the scenes. There is a constant animated presence created by the horizontal and vertical lines in the walls, table tops and floors.
This animated sense is vacant in the figures which become a serene negative in an otherwise active composition. In a sense the nature surrounding the scene, whether it be the chairs ,the trees the streets all reflect the substance Of Saul Bellow but not in the people. I look at this graphic strip in much the same manner as the writer talks of Saul Bellow. It is a strip that I have returned to many times and always find great satisfaction in. I will admit that there are not many masterpieces in graphic novels yet but there are few I believe in any expression, what there are is moments of a masterpiece as in Saul Bellow's paragraph or John Hankiewicz's stripe.
TED TALK --- Listening 10 mins --
This presentation is based on the importance of comics in the classroom and will in listened to in two parts.
Part 1 \5mins\ ---
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