My Manga Academia
Phil Amara read from his upcoming picture book giving an introduction to Manga and Anime for beginners. Mike Barltrop spoke about Manga’s ability to reach reluctant readers, studies showing the benefit of teaching with comics, the top circulated manga from the Toronto Public Library, basic statistics regarding manga, graphic novel and fiction rates within libraries, issues of acceptance of comics within the classroom, the 10 key literary skills and how comics (and specifically the manga adaptation of Romeo and Juliet by Manga Classics) apply to them, Manga as the class text and his free detailed teachers guide that can be used towards this end.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed