Dr. Sam Monnin - Teaching Graphic Novels

Join us as Dr. Katie Sam Monnin shares her journey from earning degrees in English literature to teaching middle school students on September 11, 2001 and how that experience influenced her to using graphic novels as modern literature in the classroom. Dr. Monnin has published eight books on the topic, including her first book Teaching Graphic Novels: Practical Strategies for the Secondary ELA Classroom. Listen as she discusses the need to teach to where students are at in time rather than to where educators were in time when they learned about literature.