Yo, Miss: A Graphic Look At High School (Comix Journalism)
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| Rating | : | 4.57 (635 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1621062198 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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I just looked at a bunch of Yo, Miss, and it's riveting!This is such an amazing project--I'm not sure how you have the energy to teach all day and do all this writing and drawing, but keep it up!”Alison Bechdel, Fun Home, Are You My Mother? I’ve read and been incredibly moved by your chapters thank you. Get it and get educated."Sean Arenas Razorcake Lisa Wilde’s black and white drawings explode with complexity, layered metaphors and gorgeous perspective”Joanna Clapps HermanAuthor of The Anarchist Bas
blueotter said Realistic Teaching Memoir. I got so much more out of Yo Miss by Lisa Wilde than I expected to. The drawings are rough and primary, but the story of these kids, this school, and this teacher, overrides that. Plus the drawing style took on some charm as I got further into the book, and she makes some clever. "Jarringly good. But maybe not for teens" according to Maria Beadnell. It is a heartbreaking and well-written read, about the experiences of a woman teaching at a second chance high school. I didn't feel Wilde condescended to her students, and although it seems most of her students were of color I didn't get the "white savior" vibe another reviewer. Yo Miss stands out. Not a Hollywood feel-good tale, but rather a straightforward story from a 16 year insider at an at-risk high school in New York City. Yo, Miss follows a teacher, author Lisa Wilde, and a core group of her students as they attempt to cross the tightrope of high school and make it
It is a story that shows these teens in all their beauty, intelligence, suffering, humor, and humanity (and also when they are really pains in the behind.) A view from the trenches of public education, Yo, Miss challenges preconceptions about who these kids are, and what is needed to help them graduate.. Through strong and revealing black and white images, the book tells the story of eight students who are trying to get that ticket to the middle class – a high school diploma. Whether they succeed or not has as much to do with what happens outside the classroom as in, and the value of perseverance is matched by the power of a second chance. Yo, Miss: A Graphic Look at High School takes the reader inside Wildcat Academy, a second chance high school in New York City where all the students are considered at-risk