Today at the beginning of class, instead of doing a reading quiz (in other words, if you were present during class, you will receive 100% on the quiz), I asked you to break up into small groups to tackle Miskec's essay page by page. I asked each group to dissect one idea that related to one of the questions from the quiz. Group 1 examined Miskec's analysis of how the lessons in Meet Addy translate to the American Girl readership and examined Miskec's comparison of Meet Addy and Ivy and Bean through the lens of didacticism. Group 2 took on the topic of queerness, and they examined why Ivy and Bean is a queer text according to Miskec. Group 3 defined narrative theorist Mikhail Bakhtin's idea of the "carnivalesque" and noted how Ivy and Bean features carnivalesque imagery according to Miskec. Group 4 looked closely at how Miskec analyzes Ivy and Bean's fluid identities as characters. Group 5 examined the comparison between authority in the two series (American Girl and Ivy and Bean). I then asked each group to present their findings on Miskec's article, and we discussed each question as a class.Homework
- Read Brian Selznick's The Invention of Hugo Cabret
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