Connecting the Visual to the Verbal in the Classroom

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 10.01.06

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Overview:
  2. Rationale
  3. Teaching Strategies:
  4. Works Referenced
  5. Websites
  6. Endnotes

Finding the Story through Intermediality: PoetryComics, Animated Poetry and Tableu Vivant

Cara N. Goldstein

Published September 2010

Tools for this Unit:

Websites

"Advanced Illustration: Comics" http://www-personal.umich.edu/~phoebeg/comics/index.html. Phoebe Gloeckner's Syllabus at University of Michigan

"Austin Kleon" http://www.austinkleon.com/tag/seth/. Interview with Seth in Carousel Magazine

"Billy Collins Action Poetry" http://www.bcactionpoet.org/. Billy Collins Animated Poetry is the best example of the artform out there.

"Borders Open Door Poetry" http://open-doorpoetry.org/borders/addonizio.shtml. Kim Addonizio What do Women Want?

"Chris Ware Gets the Scholarly Treatment" http://www.chicagoreader.com/TheBlog/archives/2010/05/28/chris-ware-gets-the-scholarly-treatment.

"David Byrne And She Was, YouTube" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgSVTdAtNYE. David Byrne And She Was. This video is also a wonderful example of word and image meeting.

"Drawn and Quarterly" http://www.drawnandquarterly. Authors on this site are some of the best Graphic Novelists out there.

"Graphic Narrative" http://www-personal.umich.edu/~esrabkin/417GNw05.htm. Eric Rabkin's Syllabus at University of Michigan

"Graphic Poetry" http://www.wig-01.com/graphicpoetry/. A book that looks interesting

"Hillary Chute Department of Language and Literature" http://english.uchicago.edu/facultychute. Hillary Chute is a professor who teaches comics at the University of Chicago

"Introduction to Comics Art" http://teachingcomics.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=104:Introduction%20to%20Comics%20Art:%20Gateway%20to%20Visual%20Storytelling&catid=40:Syllabi&Itemid=62

"Killing My Lobster" http://www.killingmylobster.com/content/view/905/73/. Killing My Lobster is a sketch comedy group that had a show using Tableau Vivant that inspired this lesson.

"Peter Gabriel Sledgehammer, YouTube" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqyc37aOqT0. Peter Gabriel Sledgehammer. Video that expressions the history of art in a surrealistic way by pairing words and images.

"The Poem as Comic Strip" http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/article.html?id=180049. Amazing example of PoetryComics from the Poetry Foundation Website

"Poems =Word Comics" http://www.austinkleon.com/2008/06/06/poems-word-comics/. Great resource for projects in visual art and poetry

"Poetry" http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poetry. What is Poetry?

"Project MUSE" http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/modern_fiction_studies/v052/52.4chute01.html. Hillary Chute Essay on Graphic Narrative

"Teaching Strategies" http://www.gmu.edu/resources/facstaff/part-time/strategy.html.

"Tim Burton's Vincent" http://vodpod.com/watch/974736-tim-burtons-vincent-featuring-edgar-allan-poes-the-raven. Tim Burton's Vincent is based on "The Raven."

"University of California Television", http://www.uctv.tv/search-details.aspx?showID=9391com. Naiomi Nye recites poems and talks with Bill Moyers

"Van Halen Right Now, YouTube", http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qsx2ueGssf0. Valen Halen Video Right Now. This video is a wonderful example of text and image

"WebComics Examiner Glossary", http://webcomicsreview.com/examiner/glossary.html.

"Why Art Matters by Anthony Bond"http://www.artinfluence.com/whyartmatters.html.

"Word and Image", http://wordandimage.wordpress.com/. Great Website with text and images

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