"Hi Consuela. I am just discovering comic books - from my kids. My favorite (so far) is The Giant Killer. Anyway,, went to your blog and loved it. I loved the entry about the ear piercing. It was hard for me to go with my daughter. I left a comment…"
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Teaching Comic Books
Let me start off by saying the while I generally do for living what I trained in graduate school to do (I am, in fact, a college professor and a literary critic), there are many aspects of my job I never imagined in grad school. I never imagined that I'd be director of an African American Studies program (that was never really on my list of career goals), yet here I am. I fancy myself a scholar of the African American novel, yet I've yet…See More
Conseula Francis replied to the discussion 'The Best Kid's Books Ever' in the group Mother Writer!
"My kids and I love everything Mo Willem is doing. We can't get enough of the Pigeon, my three-year old adores the Knuffle Bunny books, and we've recently started on the Elepjant and Piggy books.
And perennial favorites with both parents…"
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"This is a great idea. Afrogeekmom"
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- Who I am:
- http://afrogeekmom.blogspot.com
- Books I've written, anthologies I've contributed to, and any scripts or plays I've authored:
- Conversations with Octavia Butler (University Press of Mississippi, 2009)
- Media outlets that I currently write for:
- Charleston City Paper, on occassion
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- Nonfiction, Blog Posts, Lit Crit
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- Modern Language Association
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Teaching Comic Books
Posted on August 25, 2009 at 6:43pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
Let me start off by saying the while I generally do for living what I trained in graduate school to do (I am, in fact, a college professor and a literary critic), there are many aspects of my job I never imagined in grad school. I never imagined that I'd be director of an African American Studies program (that was never really on my list of career goals), yet here I am. I fancy myself a scholar of the African American novel, yet I've yet… Continue
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- At 7:49pm on August 1, 2010,
Meryl Jaffe said… - Hi Consuela. I am just discovering comic books - from my kids. My favorite (so far) is The Giant Killer. Anyway,, went to your blog and loved it. I loved the entry about the ear piercing. It was hard for me to go with my daughter. I left a comment on your blog and I will be back. In the meantime, I hope you get a chance to check out my blog. I just started and am blogging for parents on educational topics. I'd love your comments.
Hope to talk more and I really enjoyed the blog, Meryl
www.departingthetext.blogspot.com
- At 5:15am on July 24, 2010,
Patricia Neely-Dorsey said… - My name is Patricia Neely-Dorsey. I am from Tupelo, MS and the author of a wonderful little book of southern poems that I think you might like. Please vist my page for more information.
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Patricia IluvMr Edwards replied to the discussion 'Show Me Your Novel and I'll Show You Mine' in the group Novelists (Struggling or Not)"You could have a section of the story where you explain the character name.
For example: in my stories I have a character whose name is Gill. She is a girl and her name is pronounced Jill short for Jillian (Gillian). In the beginning of the current…"
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