Thank you to everyone who participated in our 2nd Annual Tattered Cover Scary Story Cover Design Contest! We were thrilled with all the creative, original and hair-raising artwork we received from students across Colorado. One…
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5 Classic Educational Games to Kickstart Your Family Game Night
I grew up playing every kind of board game you can imagine. My family’s board game closet was nothing short of a vault filled with hours of entertainment. Even now, when I visit home from…
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Solidarity Forever: A Review of On The Ropes
My fifth year as a teacher almost began with a strike. As the contract negotiation process between our union leaders and the administration stalled out, whispers of greed and corruption began to poison the community…
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12 Teachable Graphic Novels You (Probably) Haven’t Heard Of
Over the last 20 years or so, I’ve watched as a renaissance has taken place in the graphic novel medium. Educators and institutions have realized that these books can be a valuable resource for inroads…
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Review of Best Shot in the West: The Adventures of Nat Love
Written By: Patricia C McKissack and Frederick L McKissack Jr. Illustrated by: Randy Duburke REVIEW Each era of American history has a distinct color and feel to it – from the black and white clad…
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Solution Squad Review
By Hannah Jorgensen REVIEW As I read Solution Squad, I had a vivid flashback to little 5th grade Hannah sitting in a classroom learning math. I can clearly remember learning about prime numbers and…
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PCC Celebrates a Successful Round of Summer 2017 Workshops (Part 2)
Between June and August of 2017, PCC conducted over 100 hours of programming at 24 different libraries, schools and community centers across the Front Range. Below are some of our favorite highlights (part 2) from…
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PCC Celebrates a Successful Round of Summer 2017 Workshops! (Part 1)
This past summer, Pop Culture Classroom was hard at work developing and running pop-culture based workshops for diverse sites and students all throughout Colorado! These workshops are all part of PCC’s educational mission to inspire,…
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Webcomics for the Classroom: Part 2 (Web Comic Hosting Sites)
For all but the most financially sound school districts, it can be a struggle to convince penny-pinching department chairs to make a heavy investment in a hard copy set of graphic novels or student-wide Comixology…
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Review of Beowulf by Gareth Hinds
By Erik Kallenborn For the past few years, I’ve been lucky enough to travel the country, speaking about the benefits of comics and graphic novels in the classroom, helping many teachers get started with…
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Denver Pop Culture Con Education Wrap-Up (Part 2)
Educator’s Day 2017 Offers Exciting Opportunities for Teachers Over the past four years, Educator’s Day has given over 1,000 teachers, librarians, administrators and other educators the opportunity to receive a free Friday pass to Denver…
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Denver Pop Culture Con 2017 Education Wrap-Up! (Part 1)
At this year’s Denver Pop Culture Con, Pop Culture Classroom celebrated diversity, fun and education through a variety of exciting and unique programming. Our guests, volunteers, students, teachers and programmers created and participated in a…
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American Born Chinese, Review
By Michael Gianfrancesco REVIEW The brainchild and signature book of author/artist Gene Yang, the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, the graphic novel American Born Chinese has won its share of awards. For…
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Comics and Reluctant Learners: Dispelling the Myths
By Michael Gianfrancesco I have been doing this whole “teaching with comics” thing for nearly 15 years and I am fortunate enough to have the opportunity to work with teachers all over the…