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I Was Struck By Radiation on the Way to the Classroom

I Was Struck By Radiation on the Way to the Classroom . Superheroes as an “Available Means” in the Composition Classroom. An Equation…. …Teachers as Rhetoricians, Rhetoricians as Superheroes.

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I Was Struck By Radiation on the Way to the Classroom

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  1. I Was Struck By Radiation on the Way to the Classroom Superheroes as an “Available Means” in the Composition Classroom

  2. An Equation… • …Teachers as Rhetoricians, Rhetoricians as Superheroes. • Teaching is an art of persuasion, and persuasion, when done right, could be practically seen as a kind of superpower. • Persuasion in the classroom develops from agreement, from the creation of communes loci or common ground between Teacher and Student.

  3. The Bat Signal is on… • Aristotle defines Rhetoric as, ““as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion” (24). • Persuasion is based on the idea of agreement, on finding that “common ground” • (Quotation)

  4. With Great Power comes… • Teachers have a powerful responsibility and it’s a power that we are often criticized for, unappreciated for, and even belittled for…”Those who can’t do, teach.” Yeah, I hate that phrase

  5. Approaching Theory… • Howard Gardner

  6. Visual Learning… • Graphic novels and comic books are becoming a field more accepted as a means to engage students in the classroom • Multiple Intelligences

  7. Reaching for Semiotics • Umberto Eco

  8. Looking Closer • Scott McCloud, in his work Understanding Comics, with the “intended [purpose] to convey information and/or to produce an aesthetic response in the viewer” (9).

  9. Finding Your Superhero, The Original • Facing Up to Superman • Superman is more than a mere comic book superhero, he is an example of “symbolic presence” that serves to illustrate, as a model, humanity’s better qualities Chaim Perelman and L. Olbrechts-Tyteca discuss in their work The New Rhetoric • So, why not for kids in school? Is he too lame, are comic book superheroes not good enough?

  10. Connecting the Dots • Eco and Superman

  11. Meta-textual, Meta-Art • Flex Mentallo, the way in…

  12. A Child’s Wish • Superior

  13. So, Why Spider-Man? Why Not Any Hero? • The answer is, it really does not matter. • Most superheroes, on some level, at some time in their continuity or in their “retro-continuity,” their “ret-con,” were created for a purpose… • Superheroes are, in their core, the inspiration of the child’s mind and the key to inspiration. • “It’s not that I needed Superman to be ‘real,’ I just needed him to be more real than the Idea of the Bomb that ravaged my dreams. [He was] the human imagination, such a perfectly designed emblem of our highest, kindest, wisest, toughest selves, that my Idea of the Bomb had no defense against him…” (Morrison, Superods xv).

  14. “It’s not that I needed Superman to be ‘real,’ I just needed him to be more real than the Idea of the Bomb that ravaged my dreams. [He was] the human imagination, such a perfectly designed emblem of our highest, kindest, wisest, toughest selves, that my Idea of the Bomb had no defense against him…” (Morrison, Superods xv).

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