Graphic Narratives as Teaching Tools

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 25.03.10

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Demographics
  3. Rationale
  4. Background Knowledge & Content
  5. Teaching Strategies
  6. Classroom Activities
  7. Implemented District Standards
  8. Graphic Novel Terminology
  9. Dystopian & Utopian Terminology
  10. Suggested Readings for Teaching
  11. Annotated Bibliography
  12. Notes

Exploring Futuristic Worlds Through Graphic Novels

Vivian-Lee Taylor

Published September 2025

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Notes

  1. Oziewicz, Marek. "Speculative fiction." Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. 2017.
  2. National Museum of African American History and Culture, “Remembering Afrofuturist Octavia Butler,” Stories, accessed July 14, 2025, https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/remembering-afrofuturist-octavia-butler.
  3. National Museum of African American History and Culture, “Afrofuturism,” Explore – Exhibitions, accessed July 8, 2025, https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/exhibitions/afrofuturism.
  4. National Museum of African American History and Culture, “Remembering Afrofuturist Octavia Butler,” Stories, accessed July 14, 2025, https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/remembering-afrofuturist-octavia-butler.
  5. Camille Minns, When History Rhymes: An Analysis of Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower as Policy Planning Analysis (unpublished manuscript, 2022), [PDF file], 4.
  6. Chuck Collins and Josh Hoxie, Billionaire Bonanza 2017: The Forbes 400 and the Rest of Us (Institute for Policy Studies, November 8, 2017), PDF report, accessed July 14, 2025, https://inequality.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/BILLIONAIRE-BONANZA-2017-Embargoed.pdf.
  7. Abby Aguirre, “Octavia Butler’s Prescient Vision of a Zealot Elected to ‘Make America Great Again,’” New Yorker, July 26, 2017, https://www.newyorker.com/books/second-read/octavia-butlers-prescient-vision-of-a-zealot-elected-to-make-america-great-again?_sp=7fa6eea5-a2b7-4a8e-a729-5e195d0772c3.1752515992282.

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