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Teaching History with Comics and Manga

History Workshops for Lower Secondary School

Luca Raina, Ivano Colombo

Product: Book

Trim size in cm: 21x29,7cm

Pages: 264

ISBN: 9788859037613

Publication date: 01/11/2024

Suitable for: Lower secondary 1st level (ages 10-11), Lower secondary 2nd level (ages 12-13)


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From the shelves of bookstores, comics and manga arrive at school desks: the volume exploits the potential of comics to stimulate interest in history in middle school students. The most famous comics and manga (including, for example, Asterix and the Britons) become a tool to approach historical themes in an original and divergent way.

The activities and exercises proposed in the volume are accompanied by historical insights and complete indications to guide the exercises in class, in particul thanks to the worksheets enriched by comic strips and the numerous materials in digital format downloadable from the Online Resources.


Chapter 1 – A Brief History of Comics
Chapter 2 – In Class with Comics
Chapter 3 – Glossaries
Activities
● Semiotics: How to Read a Comic or Manga
● Historical Anachronisms: Asterix and the Britons
● Telling History Through Images: Maus
● Telling the Material Basis Through Images: Marie Antoinette
● Iconographic Documentation: The Roses of Versailles
● Creating a Comic on Historical Basis: Vinland Saga
● Historical Truth Through the Lens of Manga: Vinland Saga
● History of Ideas and Women: Radium Girls