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Posts Tagged ‘Bentley Boyd’
A fantastic review!
Written on Monday, December 1st, 2008 [permanent link]
Chester Comix just got a fantastic review on this web page devoted to helping educators find useful comic books for their reluctant readers! This is a great site for you to bookmark after reading this fun review. (At one point they note all the social studies concepts I’m packing in, and they add, “yet Boyd does it so effectively and with such good humor (using Star Trek analogies along the way, even) that I barely realized that I was learning new things as I was reading.” That’s the idea!!!
http://graphicclassroom.blogspot.com/2008/11/comix-with-content-government-by-people.html
Tags: Bentley Boyd, Chester Comix, comic book, Graphic Classroom, reluctant reader, social studies, teacher
Posted in Graphic Novel Review | 2 Comments »
Chester Charity
Written on Sunday, November 23rd, 2008 [permanent link]
My business model is to help students, teachers and parents, but I also want to use my time and business proceeds to help my community at large. In a good sign for the business, I’m getting more and more of those requests (Chester’s brand expands every time someone asks me to donate books for a charity auction!).
Last week I had a great time at a calendar signing for Beyond Boobs, a new nonprofit to help young women deal with breast cancer. (This photo includes some of the wonderful cancer survivors featured in the calendar — the two founders of the charity, Rene Bowditch and Mary Beth Gibson, are on the left). I also gave them a check based on the sales my great friend, Wendy Owens, (to the right of me) got for me by running my booth at the Virginia school librarians conference earlier this month. Please visit the Beyond Boobs web site and buy a beautiful calendar!
www.beyondboobsinc.org/
Tags: Bentley Boyd, Beyond Boobs, charity, Chester Comix, Williamsburg
Posted in Author's Purpose | No Comments »
Newsweek piece: What's wrong with boys in school?
Written on Wednesday, September 10th, 2008 [permanent link]Here’s a quick hit that I’d love to hear your thoughts on. It’s a Newsweek piece that asks: are boys really so much less attentive than girls, or have we built an educational environment that is stacked against them?? I’ve come to the latter conclusion through my work with Chester Comix, my raising of my own two boys and my 10 years as a Cub Scout leader. Boys are rarely allowed to be boys anymore – the world is too structured and the concerns for safety have boxed them in. I think there’s a direct link to the rising child obesity and shortening attention span as the elementary-age boy spends more and more time “safely” inside, playing video games. Because they are the main audience for my books, I worry about them and hope we can carefully examine the long-term effects of the decisions we make a parents, educators and community activists.
Tags: Bentley Boyd, boys, Chester the Crab, education, graphic novels, testing
Posted in History Teacher | 1 Comment »
