My students need a class set of the Black Panther Comic book!
FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Laidler's classroom raised $464
This project is fully funded
My Students
I am excited to be teaching K-8 students for a technology enrichment class! Students will be in once a week to explore the wide world of technology. My older students are going to focusing on technology and how social justice can be explored through the world of technology. Students are focused on exploring topics with the ability to share their learning with the wider world. Their voices are needed in the conversation around social justice and also how technology can amplify their voices!
My Project
When Ta-Neisi Coates wrote in The Atlantic about his journey to becoming the writer of the New Black Panther Comic he discusses how comics influenced his work as a writer and becoming a writer. He discusses how comics force the writer to use language in a precise and powerful way. Here is an excerpt from his article in the Atlantic, "This big/small approach to literature, the absurd and surreal married to the concrete and tangible, has undergirded much of my approach to writing. In my journalism here at The Atlantic, I try to ground my arguments not just in reporting but also in astute attention to every sentence. It may not always work, but I am really trying to make every one of those 18,000 words count." By bringing this comic into the classroom students can see how one writer can be many things. Writing a comic book is still story telling. I want my middle school students to view story telling through a new lens by experiencing the comic, but then transform an idea in a new way through a technology tool. Stories can be told in many ways, what way will they choose?
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