Resources for Teachers
B., David. L'Ascension du haut mal, tome 1. 1ST ed. Paris: L' Association, 2000.
Read with students as an example of a graphic memoire/biography.
Curie, Eve. Madame Curie: A Biography. New York and Washington D.C.: Da Capo Press, 2001.
Biography of Marie Curie. Students read an excerpt.
Damrosch, Leo. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007.
Biography of Rousseau. Students read an excerpt.
Fraser, Antonia. Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King. 1932. Reprint, New York: Anchor, 2007.
Biography of Louis XIV. Students read an excerpt.
Proust, Marcel, and Stéphane Heuet. A la recherche du temps perdu. Tournai: Delcourt, 2007.
Graphic rendition of Proust's novel used to show what can be done with graphics. Pages 15-17 are particularly useful.
Robb, Graham. Balzac: A Biography. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1996.
Biography of Balzac. Students read an excerpt.
"ReadWriteThink: Student Materials: Bio-Cube." Homepage - ReadWriteThink. http://www.readwritethink.org (accessed July 29, 2010).
An example of a biocube.
Satrapi, Marjane. Persepolis. Integrale ed. Paris: L'Association, 2007.
An example of a graphic memoir. "Le legume" is a good chapter to read. There are no page numbers.
Spiegelman, Art. The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale. New York: Pantheon, 1996.
Taylor, Larissa Juliet. The Virgin Warrior: The Life and Death of Joan of Arc. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009.
Biography of Joan of Arc. Students read an excerpt.
Volkmann, Jean-Charles, and Samuel Buquet. 100 Dates de l'histoire de France. Luçon: Gisserot, 2000.
The book I used for creating the master timeline.
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